Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 708.
(Report No. 22.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 3, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow.
Mr. Daniel P. King, from the Committee on Revolutionary
Claims, reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the heirs of Wadleigh Noyes, deceased.

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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 hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the
legal representatives of Wadleigh Noyes, a lieutenant in
the army of the revolution, who was slain at the capture
of Burgoyne’s army, the seven years’ half pay to which
his widow and heirs were entitled by a resolve of Con-
gress, passed August twenty-four, on thousand seven

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14 hundred and eighty; together with such interest thereon
as would now be due, if a certificate for said seven years’
half pay had been issued and subscribed under the prin-
ciples 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, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of Wadleigh Noyes, a lieutenant in the army of the revolution, who was slain at the capture of Burgoyne’s army, the seven years’ half pay to which his widow and heirs were entitled by a resolve of Con- gress, passed August twenty-four, on thousand seven
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11 12 13 14	hundred and eighty; together with such interest thereon as would now be due, if a certificate for said seven years’ half pay had been issued and subscribed under the prin- ciples of the funding act, and no payment made thereon.