Chapter XCVIII. for the relief of John Bruce, administrator of Philip Bush, deceased
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Chap. XCVIII.— An Act for the relief of John Bruce, administrator of Philip Bush, deceased.March 2, 1833. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury Claim for certificate to be settled and paid. do settle the claim of John Bruce, administrator of Philip Bush, deceased, for a certain certificate, issued on the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, to the said Philip Bush, in his life-time, by J. Brown, junior, for Archibald Steele, Deputy Quartermaster General, and payable on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, for thirty-two thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars, and fifty-five ninetieths, in continental emission; and that the said settlement be made according to the rules of depreciation: and that the said claim be allowed and paid to the said John Bruce, as administrator of Philip Bush, deceased, under the principles of the funding system, in the same manner, and in same amount, as if the said Philip Bush had, on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, subscribed to the loan made 1790, ch. 34. in payment of the debt of the United States; and that the sum, so ascertained, be paid to the said John Bruce, as administrator of Philip Bush, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1833.