Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 638.
(Report No. 821.)
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 legal representatives of Colonel John
Stone.

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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 is hereby
authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the
treasury no otherwise appropriated, to the legal represen-
tative of Colonel John H. Stone, the half-pay of a colonel
in the continental line of the army of the United States;
the said half-pay to commence on the first day of August,
seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, and to terminate on
the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and four, the
day of his death. The same being then due and unpaid

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20 to the said Colonel John H. Stone, in virtue of the reso-
lution of Congress of the twenty-sixth of August, seven-
teen hundred and seventy-six, which engaged to allow
half-pay for life to such officers and soldiers as should lose
a limb in any engagement, or be so disabled in the ser-
vice of the United States of America as to render them
incapable afterward of getting a livelihood, the said pay
to commence from and after the time that their pay as an
officer or soldier ceased.

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 is hereby authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury no otherwise appropriated, to the legal represen- tative of Colonel John H. Stone, the half-pay of a colonel in the continental line of the army of the United States; the said half-pay to commence on the first day of August, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, and to terminate on the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and four, the day of his death. The same being then due and unpaid
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12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	to the said Colonel John H. Stone, in virtue of the reso- lution of Congress of the twenty-sixth of August, seven- teen hundred and seventy-six, which engaged to allow half-pay for life to such officers and soldiers as should lose a limb in any engagement, or be so disabled in the ser- vice of the United States of America as to render them incapable afterward of getting a livelihood, the said pay to commence from and after the time that their pay as an officer or soldier ceased.