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Private Law 27–XXXVII
for the relief of Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M, Telfair, daughters and heirs of Israel Pearce.
Approved June 4, 1842
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M, Telfair, daughters and heirs of Israel Pearce.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of War is authorized, and he is hereby required, to issue to Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair,
Seven military bounty land warrants to be issued.
jointly, seven United States military land bounty warrants, of one hundred acres each, which appear to be due to the following named individuals, for their services as private soldiers in a Rhode Island regiment, in the war of the revolution, and their right to which they, each and all TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 41. 1842. of them, assigned, in April, seventeen hundred and eighty-four, to Israel Pearce, father of the aforesaid Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair, namely: Robert Allen, Marks Barrons, Casar Finch, Ichabod Howard, Joseph Wheeler, Hugh McDugal, and Jabez Remington, who each and all appear to be entitled to land bounty, but who assigned their right,
Proviso.
as aforesaid, to Israel Pearce: Provided, The said Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair shall, on the delivery to them of the land warrants aforesaid, execute and lodge with the Secretary of War their joint bond, with approved security, to indemnify the United States against the legal claim of all other persons to the said warrants.
Approved, .