Thirtieth
Congress,
thiSecond Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.
thiSecond Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to
pay to Joseph Stokely and Polly Finley, heirs of Nehemiah Stokely, late a captain
in the Pennsylvania line, in the continental establishment of the war of the revolution,
five years’ full pay of a captain in such service, being the commutation of half pay
for life, promised by the resolves of Congress; together with such interest thereon
as would now be due, if a final settlement certificate had been issued to the said
Nehemiah Stokely for the amount of his commutation, and the same had been subscribed
to the loan created by the act of seventeen hundred and ninety, provided for the funding
of the debt of the United States, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
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Clerk
01/26/1849
Passed the House of Representatives.
January 26th AD. 1849
Attest,
Tho. J CampbellJanuary 26th AD. 1849
Attest,
Clerk
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Revolutionary Claims
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An Act
for the relief of the heirs of Captain Nehemiah Stokely, deceased.
An Act
for the relief of the heirs of Captain Nehemiah Stokely, deceased.
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In the Senate of the U. [?]
Resolved, That this bill
Attest
SecretaryResolved, That this bill
Attest
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Papers
Partially Printed Document, 2 page(s), Volume Volume 2, RG 233, Entry 362: Records of the United States House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB