Volume 6
Private Law 21–LXXX
for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, of the sloop of war Hornet.
Approved April 24, 1830
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, of the sloop of war Hornet.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the widows, if any such there be, and in
Entitled to six months’ pay in addition to amount due on 10th Sept. 1829.
case there be no widow, the child or children; and if there be no child, then the parent or parents; and if there be no parent, then the brothers and sisters of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were in the service of the United States, and lost in the United States’ sloop of war Hornet, shall be entitled to, and receive, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to six months’ pay of their respective deceased relatives, aforesaid, in addition to the pay due to the said deceased, on the tenth day of September last, up to which day the arrears of pay due the deceased, shall be allowed and paid by the accounting officers of the navy department.
Approved, .