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[Private No. 47.]AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of Doctor IsaacLedyard, deceased.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-I at ices of the United States of America in Uongress assembled, That, the proper accounting’ officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed and required to allow the heirs of Doctor Isaac Ledyard the five years* full pay of n surgton, being* the commutation of half pay for life of said Ledyard, as assistant purveyor of the hospital department of the revolutionary army; torether with the interest tfyereon which would now be due had a certificate for that amount been issued by the United States, and subscribed under the “Act making provision for the debt of theUnited States,” passed the fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to revise the settlement of the account of Doctor Isaac Led* yard, assistant deputy director of the hospital department in the revolutionary army, made by Beniamin Walker, commissioner of accounts of the hospital, clothing, and marine department of said army; and to allow to the heirs of said Doctor Led-yara the compensation fixed by the resolution of Congress of February the sixth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, as specie, according to the report of the said Benjamin Walker, made to Congress on the fifteenth (fay of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty six, which is of record in the report book kept by said Walker, and filed in the office of the First Auditor of the Treasury.- and that, on said settlement, if any balance is found due from the United States, the samebe paid, with the interest now due, to the heirs of said Doctor Isaac Ledyard, as though a certificate had been regularly issued therefor at the time it was due, and the same had been subscribed to the loan created by the act of one thousand seven hun-dred and ninety, providing for the funding of the debt of the United States; and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury not other-HIas,toYlt;otfotieGitaasai0 %01 e: olS3rhtl
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Wed, Mar 13, 1833
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