Private Law 25–CLXXXII

That it shall and may be lawful for William C. Hazard, the only child and heir at law of Ezekiel Hazard, a soldier in

May relinquish bounty land, and receive half the monthly pay, &c.

the army of the United States during the late war, who died in service, to relinquish the bounty land to which the said Ezekiel Hazard, had he survived the war, would have been entitled, and in lieu thereof, TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 183, 184, 185. 1839. to receive half the monthly pay to which the said Ezekiel Hazard was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years, in the same manner as the guardian of the said William C. Hazard

Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 55, sec. 2.

might have done under the provisions of the second section of the act of Congress of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, had such guardian existed; and the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the notice of the surrender of the land warrant, is hereby authorized and required to give the requisite orders for the payment of the said half gay to the said William C. Hazard, in the same manner as the said act of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, authorized and required to be given to the guardian of any minor child or children of a deceased soldier, who died in the service of the United States, upon relinquishment of the bounty land warrant, under the provisions of the aforesaid act.