Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1818-11-18

que was funded At three per cent; SO
nat they received hut ten years inter.
st on one third of The principal due
TO them, and three per cent on all the
j tcrest. l do not mean 70 rensure
congress-they probably at the time,
could not do more than hey did ; and
when they funded the debt, were in
iluenced by the knowledge That the
most OF the certificates we're owned by
people who had purchased them for n
triflc. But the country is now able
and there is an opportuni,y Of paying
the money to the real creditors.-
TIE question is simply thiss Govern
ment made a contract with our oil
ers. t0 induce th"m to remain in the
scrvice--the officers complied with
their part Of the acknowledgements
ment did not-ior instead Of paying
a funded certificates Of real value, Ger.
|'itiratrs were given whieh had only ii
nominal value, on which the officers
C. nd not get interest. and which they
coald not sell, except ut a great loss 4;
and when the certificates were funded
he full value was not allowed. The
surviving officers now request congress
as the fornser government did not
omply with the terms Of the cotnmn-
tatiOn. to permit their to revert to
their first coatragt Of half pay. ant
agree that the full amount Of the
Ommutation or five years full pay.
shall be deducted from the arrear-
'ges due 10 them; so that the. u.
States so far from losing, in fact
gains the difference between what
they paid and what they promised /;
and the officer does not get as much
rs government was hound IVY contract
to pay him. ItIink the request OF
the officers moderate and just, and
hope the petition will I've generally
signed. JUSTICE.
The following is the Memorial alluded
to in the article from the Berks and
Schuylkill Journal.
70 the Hon. the Senate, and the Hon. the
House IF Representatives Of the Unit
| cd States Of america, in Congress as.
sem6led &: the Memorial of the subscri-
bers. citizens of the United States,
most respectfully represents,
That your Memorialists are impressed
with Just and grateful sense of the emi
nent services rendered 10 our country by
the officers of the Revolutionary Army,
and are anxiously DESTROYS that the pro-
missed compensation Of their services and
suflerings may be forthwith made to the
surviving remnant of those oiicers. And,
~ turthcrance Of this in,ores in obI4t'
your Memorialists beg leave most res
pec,fully to suggest, that, BY the resolves
Of Congress of August l, '779' October
81, 1880, anu SANITARY IL, l7Sl, 1t was
stipulated to allow the Ofhcers Of the
| Revolutionary Army, whose term OF SER
vice there specified, Half Pay for life,
to commence from ;he time OF their re-
lduction. And by resolve Of Congress
of the 22d March, 1888, it was provided,
That such officers as were then in service,
i. and should continue therein until ,he end
of the war, should be entitled to receive
the amount of 1--WE years full pay in mo.
|ney, or securities on interest, at six per
Icent. per annum, instead Of the half pay
promised by the resolve of the Dist of
i October, 1880, provided it should be at
the option of the lines of the respective
states, and not Of officers individually, to
accept or refuse the same.
;. And, as the substitution Of FIVE years
full pay for the original stipulation Of
half pay for life (Which original stipula-
ton formed the reward of past services,
!. and was the consideration for their con
ltinuancc, involving the REIMBURSEMENT OF
all private pursuits on The part of the ofli-
GERS, must have been intended to operate
os benefit and not an injury to the Off.
Ger. But as, by the inadequacy of the
public funds to redeem the principal or to
pay the interest for many years after the
Communication certificates were issued, the
said certificates we've deprecated SO low
as eight and ten for one for money, and
Being thus unproductive, the necessities
o. the officers occasioned by seven or
years devotion to the military service Of
theircoun,ry, and, in many instances, by
years Of captivity, compelled them to
part with their hard earned vouchers al
those deprecated rates.
! And as it appears that the surviving
. officers Of the Revolutionary Army now
pray that they may be permitted to reverl
Ito the original contract of half pay for
life, by refunding to the United States the
fIfull nominal amount of the Communication