Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 604.
(Report No. 770.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
July 19, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Iverson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the legal representatives or heirs of Captain
John Mountjoy.

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10 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 Treasury be, and
he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the
legal representatives of Captain John Mountjoy, of the
tenth regiment of the Virginia continental line in the revo-
lutionary war, or to the heirs of said Mountjoy, five
years’ full pay as captain in said war, the same being the
commutation for half pay for life, as provided by law: Pro

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13 vided, That said commutation or the half pay for life, al-
lowed by law to said John Mountjoy, has never been paid
to him or his legal representatives.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	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 Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of Captain John Mountjoy, of the tenth regiment of the Virginia continental line in the revo- lutionary war, or to the heirs of said Mountjoy, five years’ full pay as captain in said war, the same being the commutation for half pay for life, as provided by law: Pro
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11 12 13	vided, That said commutation or the half pay for life, al- lowed by law to said John Mountjoy, has never been paid to him or his legal representatives.