Chapter XL. *for the relief of Hannah Budlong.*March 28, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Hannah Budlong, formerly the widow of Elias Hyde, out of any money not otherwiseAllowance of five years’ half pay to widow of E
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Chap. XL.— An Act *for the relief of Hannah Budlong.*March 28, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Hannah Budlong, formerly the widow of Elias Hyde, out of any money not otherwiseAllowance of five years’ half pay to widow of E. Hyde. appropriated, two hundred and forty dollars, being the amount of half pay for a militiaman or volunteer in the military service of the United States for five years; Elias Hyde, then the husband of said Hannah, having voluntarily joined a company of riflemen in the military service of the United States, on the twenty-second of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the defence of Ogdensburg, and having been shot by the enemy when in the performance of his duty, of which wound he died on the seventeenth of March thereafter.
Approved, March 28, 1838.