United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/5th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 40

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May 4, 1798
Chap. ⅩⅬ.—An Act for the relief of Obadiah Brown.


Be it enacted, &c.,To be placed on pension list. That the Secretary for the Department of War, be, and he is hereby directed to place upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, at the rate and proportion of one-fourth of a pension, the name of Obadiah Brown, late a private soldier, who has been returned as an invalid by the judge of the district of New York, pursuant to an act of Congress,Act of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17. passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An act to regulate claims to invalid pensions.”

Sec. 2. Rate of pension, &c. And be it further enacted, That the said pension shall be estimated at the same rate, receivable on the same condition, and payable in the same manner, in all respects, as directed in like cases, by an act, passed at the present session,Act of Feb. 2, 1798, ch. 12. entitled, “An act directing the Secretary at War to place certain persons on the pension list.”

Approved, May 4, 1798.