Volume 6
Private Law 16–LXV
for the relief of Peter Triplett.
Approved March 3, 1835
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Peter Triplett.
Be it enacted, &c.,
Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 19.
Payment of such sum as he would have beer entitled to, &c.
That the Secretary of War be authorized to pay to Peter Triplett, of the state of Virginia, who is now a pensioner under the act entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” such sum of money as the said Triplett would have been entitled to receive had his name not been stricken from the roll of revolutionary
Proviso.
pensioners after he was first placed thereon: Provided, That the said Secretary of War shall become satisfied, from proper testimony, that the said Triplett was in such indigent circumstances as to have been unable to support himself without the assistance of his country.
Approved, .