Volume 6
Private Law 22–XXV
for the relief of the administrator of the late Colonel John Thornton, deceased.
Approved February 9, 1833
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the administrator of the late Colonel John Thornton, deceased.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officers of the treasury do settle, adjust, and pay over to his administrator, the account
Account for five years’ full pay as colonel to be adjusted and paid.
of the late Colonel John Thornton, deceased, for five years’ full pay, in commutation of the half pay for life, promised by the resolves of Congress, to the officers of the continental line in the war of the revolution; together with such interest thereon as would now be due if a certificate for such commutation had been issued and subscribed under the principles of the funding act, and no payments made thereon;
Act of May 4, 1790, ch. 34.
to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. And the said administrator shall pay to the widow of the said Thornton, one fourth part of the money payable under this act, and the remainder he shall pay over or distribute among the persons entitled thereto, according to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia.
Approved, .