Chapter IV. for the Relief of Charlotte Lynch
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Chap. IV.— An Act for the Relief of Charlotte Lynch. Feb. 5, 1851. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Payment to be made to Charlotte Lynch. That out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, there shall be allowed and paid to Charlotte Lynch, only surviving child of Lieutenant Colonel Ebenezer Gray, of the sixth regiment of the Connecticut line, who served in the army of the revolution from the beginning of the war to its close, as an equivalent for the loss sustained by him by the substitution of the commutation certificates, issued in seventeen hundred and eighty-three, for the half pay for life, to which he was entitled under the resolution of Congress of seventeen hundred and eighty, five years’ full pay, without interest, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, February 5, 1851.