Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 640.
(Report No. 823.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
August 8, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the heirs of Captain Samuel Ransom, an
officer of the revolutionary war, killed at the battle of
Wyoming.

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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, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of
the same, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he
is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the heirs of
Samuel Ransom, late a captain on the continental estab-
lishment, who was killed in the battle of Wyoming, seven
years’ half-pay of a captain, for their father’s services in
the revolutionary war, to be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, together with such

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14 interest thereon as would now be due, if a certificate for
the said seven years’ half-pay had been issued and sub-
scribed under the principles of the funding act, and no
payment made thereon.

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, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the heirs of Samuel Ransom, late a captain on the continental estab- lishment, who was killed in the battle of Wyoming, seven years’ half-pay of a captain, for their father’s services in the revolutionary war, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, together with such
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11 12 13 14	interest thereon as would now be due, if a certificate for the said seven years’ half-pay had been issued and sub- scribed under the principles of the funding act, and no payment made thereon.