Private Law 21–CXCVII

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Martha Yeomans, widow of John Yeomans, deceased, a Lieutenant of Infantry in the Continental Line, during the revolutionary war, such sum as the said John Yeomans, who died on the twelfth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, would have been entitled to, under the provisions

Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53.

of an act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” passed the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, from the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty- six, to the twelfth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, had he, the said John Yeomans, survived, and been living at the time of the passing of the aforesaid act; and that the amount which would in such case have been so due to the said John Yeomans, when liquidated and ascertained by the proper accounting officers of the treasury, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.