Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 757.
(Report No. 53.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 8, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Newell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims
reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of John Moore White.

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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 is
hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Moore
White, son and sole heir of Major John White, a major
in the army of the revolution, and slain at the battle of
Germantown, or his heirs, the seven years’ half pay to
which Major White would have been entitled, had he not
died, by a resolve of Congress, passed the twenty-fourth
August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; together

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tificate for said seven years’ half pay had been issued and
subscribed under the principles of funding act, and no
payment made thereon.

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 is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Moore White, son and sole heir of Major John White, a major in the army of the revolution, and slain at the battle of Germantown, or his heirs, the seven years’ half pay to which Major White would have been entitled, had he not died, by a resolve of Congress, passed the twenty-fourth August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; together
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12 13 14 15	with such interest thereon as would now be due, if a cer- tificate for said seven years’ half pay had been issued and subscribed under the principles of funding act, and no payment made thereon.