Volume 6
Private Law 10–LIV
for the relief of Philip Turner.
Approved April 22, 1808
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Philip Turner.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are authorized and directed, to liquidate and settle the
Allowance of half-pay as captain.
account of Philip Turner, late hospital physician and surgeon, and that they allow him the commutation equal to the half pay of a captain, agreeably to a resolution of Congress, passed on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one: Provided, the said Philip Turner, on the receipt of the money directed to be paid him by this act, shall execute in consideration thereof, a discharge to the United States, of all demands whatsoever, and deposit the same in the office of the register of the treasury.
Approved, .