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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SECOND CONGRESS

of the

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the fifth day of November, 1792, and ended the second day of March, 1793.

George Washington, President; John Adams, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; John Langdon, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the second of March, 1793; Jonathan Trumbull, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE Ⅱ.

Jan. 14, 1793
Chap. Ⅲ.—An Act to provide for the allowance of interest on the sum ordered to be paid by the resolve of Congress, of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, as an indemnity to the persons therein named.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Interest allowed on 200 dols. from the 16th May, 1776, &c. That lawful interest, from the sixteenth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, shall be allowed on the sum of two hundred dollars, ordered to be paid to Return Jonathan Meigs, and the legal representative of Christopher Greene, deceased, by a resolve of the United States in Congress assembled, of the twenty-eighth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.

Approved, January 14, 1793.


Statute Ⅱ.



Feb. 22, 1793
Chap. Ⅻ.—An Act to authorize the comptroller of the treasury to settle the account of Thomas Wishart, late a lieutenant in the army of the United States.


Be it enacted, &c.,Allowance to Thomas Wishart. That the comptroller of the treasury be, and is hereby authorized to adjust and settle the account of Thomas Wishart, late a lieutenant in the army of the United States, and to allow him, in addition to the pay to which he may be entitled as an officer deranged, under the acts of Congress of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, the pay of a lieutenant, from the fifteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, to the fifteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.

Approved, February 22, 1793.


Statute Ⅱ.



Feb. 22, 1793
Chap. ⅩⅢ.—An Act to authorize the adjustment of a claim of Joseph Henderson against the United States.


Be it enacted, &c.,Allowance to Joseph Henderson. That there be allowed to Joseph Henderson, a yearly salary of one hundred dollars, for his services as paymaster to the navy-board for the eastern department, from the tenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, to the tenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, being four years; and that the officers of the treasury be authorized to pass the same to his credit, and to settle his account accordingly.

Approved, February 22, 1793.
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