# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 173

Chap. CLXXIII.—An Act to provide for liquidating and paying certain claims of the state of Virginia.
Accounts of Virginia for payments to officers of Virginia line in revolutionary war, &c., authorized to be paid.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury do liquidate and pay the accounts of the commonwealth of Virginia against the United States, for payments to the officers commanding in the Virginia line in the war of the revolution, on account of half-pay for life promised the officers aforesaid by that commonwealth, the sum of one hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-six cents.
Secretary of the Treasury to pay Virginia the amount of judgments rendered against her in favour of certain revolutionary officers.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, required and directed to pay to the state of Virginia the amount of the judgments which have been rendered against the said state, for and on account of the promise contained in an act passed by the general assembly of the state of Virginia in the month of May, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, and in favour of the officers or representatives of officers of the regiments and corps hereinafter recited, and not exceeding, in the whole, the sum of two hundred and forty-one thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars, to wit:
First. To the officers, or their legal representatives, of the regiment commanded by the late Colonel George Gibson, the amount of the judgments which they have obtained, and which are now unsatisfied.
Second. To the officers, or their legal representatives, of the regiment denominated the second state regiment, commanded, at times, by Colonels Brent and Dabney, the amount of the judgments which they have obtained, and which are now unsatisfied.
Third. To the officers, or their legal representatives, of the regiments of Colonels Clark and Crockett, and Captain Roger’s troop of cavalry, who were employed in the Illinois service, the amount of the judgments which they have obtained, and which are now unsatisfied.
Fourth. To the officers, or their legal representatives, serving in the regiment of state artillery commanded by the late Colonel Marshall, and those serving in the state garrison regiment commanded by Colonel Muter, and serving in the state cavalry commanded by Major Nelson, the amount of the judgments which they have obtained, and which are now unsatisfied.
Fifth. To the officers, or their legal representatives, who served in the ​navy of Virginia during the war of the revolution, the amount of the judgments which they have obtained, and which are now unsatisfied.
Secretary of the Treasury to settle claims for half-pay to revolutionary officers.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed and required, to adjust and settle those claims for half pay of the officers of the aforesaid regiments and corps, which have not been paid or prosecuted to judgments against the state of Virginia, and for which said state would be bound on the principles of the half-pay cases already decided in the supreme court of appeals of said state; which several sums of money herein directed to be settled or paid shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 5, 1832.