Volume 6
Private Law 25–CCXXXV
to authorize the payment of the seven years’ half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of John McClelland, deceased.
Approved July 7, 1838
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the payment of the seven years’ half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of John McClelland, deceased.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the
Seven years’ half pay of a first lieutenant of infantry, allowed.
treasury not otherwise appropriated, the full amount of seven years’ half pay of a first lieutenant of infantry in the army of the revolution, to such person or persons as may be entitled to the same under the resolution of Congress of the twenty-fourth of August, seventeen hundred and eighty, on account of the services of John McClelland, late a first lieutenant in the army of the revolution, who died in the service.
Approved, .