Chapter XIX. granting a pension to Commodore Richard Taylor
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Chap. XIX.— An Act granting a pension to Commodore Richard Taylor. March 1, 1817. *Be it enacted, &c., * That, from and after the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, a pension of three hundredA pension granted. dollars per annum be allowed to Commodore Richard Taylor, in consequence of a total disability arising from a wound received in a conflict with the enemy in the revolutionary war, while in the command of a 186 FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 20, 26, 27, 28. 1817. flotilla in the waters of the Chesapeake, under a commission of captain in the navy from the state of Virginia; to be paid to him, the said Taylor, half yearly, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.
Approved, March 1, 1817.