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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SECOND CONGRESS

of the

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Wednesday, March 4, 1789, and ended September 29, 1789.

George Washington, President; John Adams, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Richard Henry Lee, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 21st day of April; Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE Ⅰ.

Dec. 16, 1791
Chap. Ⅱ.—An Act for the relief of David Cook and Thomas Campbell.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,David Cook allowed a pension. That David Cook, a captain of artillery in the late war, and who, being shot through the body at the battle of Monmouth, is rendered incapable to obtain his livelihood by labor, shall be placed on the pension list of the United States, and shall be entitled to one-third of his monthly pay, as a captain of artillery: Provided, That he return into the treasury-office, a sum equivalent to two-thirds of his commutation of half pay, being the proportion of his pension to the amount of his commutation.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,Thos. Campbell allowed a pension. That Thomas Campbell be placed on the pension list, and that the half pay of a captain of infantry be allowed to the said Thomas Campbell, who has been so injured by repeated wounds in the service of his country, that he is unable to support himself by labor: Provided, That he return into the treasury-office, a sum equivalent to the whole of his commutation of half pay.

Approved, December 16, 1791.

Statute Ⅰ.



March 27, 1792
Chap. ⅩⅢ.—An Act for the relief of certain Windows, Orphans, Invalids, and other persons.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Comptroller of the Treasury adjust the claims of the Widows and orphans respectively,Comptroller to adjust the claims of certain widows and orphans for seven years’ half-pay, &c. as the case may be, of the late Colonel Owen Roberts, Captain William White, Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Elliott, Major Samuel Wise, Major Benjamin Huger, Lieutenant John Bush, and Major Charles Motte, deceased, all of whom were killed or died in the service of the United States, for the seven years half pay stipulated by the resolve of Congress of the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that the Register of the Treasury do issue his certificates accordingly.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,Timothy Mix and Abel Turney placed on pension list. That the Secretary of the department of war be, and he hereby is required to place on the invalid list, Timothy Mix, disabled in the late war, by the loss of his right hand, while in the service of the United States, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. That the said Secretary place on the invalid

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