THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 448.
(Report No. 520.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
April 26, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Cummins, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
Granting pensions to the surviving petty officers, seamen, and
marines, who, under the command of Captain Stephen
Decatur, junior, captured and destroyed the frigate Philadelphia,
in the harbor of Tripoli, on the night of the sixteenth
of February, eighteen hundred and four.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled
, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is
hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the navy
pension list the names of the surviving petty officers, sea-
men, and marines, who, in the month of February, anno
Domini, eighteen hundred and four, under the command of
Captain Stephen Decatur, junior, assisted in capturing and
destroying the frigate Philadelphia, in the harbor of Trip-
oli; and that he pay to them pensions during their natural

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lives, at the same rate of compensation that they were
respectively receiving at the time of performing said
serviee; said pensions to commence on the fourth day of
September, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That such rules
of proof of personal identity and service, shall be observed
in allowing said pensions, as may be prescribed by the
President of the United States.

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