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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Bills and Resolutions, Senate: Index --Untitled
22d CONGRESS,
1st Session.
S. 1.
IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
December 8, 1831.
Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions.
December 15, 1831.
Reported with an amendment, to wit:--add section five.
A BILL
Supplementary to the "Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution."
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 3 each of the surviving officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, 4 and soldiers, of the army of the revolution, who shall 5 have served in the continental line, State troops, volunteers, or 6 militia, at one or more terms, a period of two years, during the 7 war of the revolution, and who are not entitled to any benefit 8 under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers 9 of the revolution, passed the fifteenth day of May, eighteen 10 hundred and twenty-eight, be authorized to receive, out 11 of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the 12 amount of his full pay in the said line, according to his rank, 13 but not exceeding, in any case, the pay of a captain in the said 14 line; such pay to commence from the first day of January, 15 one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and shall continue 16 during his natural life; and that any such officer, non-commissioned 17 officer, musician, or private, as aforesaid, who shall have
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