Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 637.
(Report No. 819.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
August 8, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Daniel P. King, from the Committee on Revolutionary
Claims, reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the heirs of John Jackson.

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11 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 to the legal
representatives of John Jackson, deceased—the pilot de-
tained on board the Bon Homme Richard during her bril-
liant action with the British frigate Serapis, in which ac-
tion he lost an arm— a pension at the rate of six dollars
per month, from the fifteenth day of November, seventeen
hundred and seventy-nine, to the day of his death, which
was in eighteen hundred and fifteen, agreeably to the

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15 pledge given by the captain of the Bon Homme Richard
and the report and resolution of the continental congress
of twenty-eighth September, seventeen hundred and eighty-
five.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	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 to the legal representatives of John Jackson, deceased—the pilot de- tained on board the Bon Homme Richard during her bril- liant action with the British frigate Serapis, in which ac- tion he lost an arm— a pension at the rate of six dollars per month, from the fifteenth day of November, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, to the day of his death, which was in eighteen hundred and fifteen, agreeably to the
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12 13 14 15	pledge given by the captain of the Bon Homme Richard and the report and resolution of the continental congress of twenty-eighth September, seventeen hundred and eighty- five.