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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · May 4, 1798 · Chapter XL

Chapter XL. for the relief of Obadiah Brown

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Chap. XL.— An Act for the relief of Obadiah Brown. May 4, 1798. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary for the Department of War, To be placed on pension list.be, and he is hereby directed to place upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, at the rate and proportion of one-fourth of a pension, the name of Obadiah Brown, late a private soldier, who has been returned as an invalid by the judge of the district of New York, pursuantAct of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17. to an act of Congress, passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An act to regulate claims to invalid pensions.
” Sec. 2. Rate of pension, &c. *And be it further enacted, *That the said pension shall be estimated at the same rate, receivable on the same condition, and payable in the same manner, in all respects, as directed in like cases, by Act of Feb. 2, 1798, ch. 12.an act, passed at the present session, entitled, “An act directing the Secretary at War to place certain persons on the pension list.” Approved, May 4, 1798.
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