Private Law 22–CIII

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized, empowered, and required, to settle

Five years’ full pay as lieutenant allowed.

the account of Edmund Brooke, late a Lieutenant in the army of the United States in the revolutionary war on continental establishment, and allow to him five years’ full pay, that being the commutation for half pay for life due to him at the close of the war, in consideration of his services therein; together with such interest as would have accrued on the said five years’ full pay, if a certificate for that amount had been issued by the United States on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and the said certificate, with its accruing interest, had been subscribed to the loan of the United States, under the act, entitled “An act making provision for the debt

Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.

of the United States,” passed August fourth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; making up the account, and settling and paying the same, in all respects, as if the same had been so subscribed, and was TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108, 116. 1832. now outstanding and unpaid; and that the same be paid to the said Edmund Brooke, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.