Volume 6
Private Law 25–CCXXXVI
for the relief of the heirs of Deborah Gannett, a soldier of the revolution, deceased.
Approved July 7, 1838
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the heirs of Deborah Gannett, a soldier of the revolution, deceased.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury he, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
Payment to them as an equivalent for a pension.
appropriated, to the heirs of Deborah Gannett, a revolutionary soldier, and late the wife of Benjamin Gannett, of Sharon in the state of Massachusetts, now deceased, the sum of four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, being an equivalent for a full pension of eighty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to the decease of Benjamin Gannett in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, as granted in certain cases to the widows of revolutionary soldiers by the act passed the fourth day of July, eighteen
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.
hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act granting half pay to widows or orphans where their husbands or fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States in certain cases, and for other purposes.”
Approved, .