Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-05-20

pensions OF certain persons; which were reported
10 the House, with amendments to each; and
then
The House adjourned at quarter before ten
o'clock.
AN ACT.
For the relief Of certain SURVIVING officers and
soldiers of the Army Of the RepoiS.tfon
Be il enacted 6y the Senate and House of Re
representatives. Of the United States If america in
/ Congress assembled, That each of the surviving
Officers of the Army OF the Revolution, in the
Continental Line, who ives entitled to hali.pay by
the resolve OF October 2lst seventeen hundred and
eighty, be authorized to receive, out of any mo.
ney in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated,
the amount OF his full pay in said line, according
TO his rank in the line, to begin he third Lay Of
March, one Sjhousand eight hundred AMI twenty
six, and 10 continue during his natural life: Pro-
pided That. under is act, no officer shalt be en-
tllled to receive larger than the full nav of
Captain in said line.
Sec. 2. find be IL further enacted, That, when.
ever any Of said officers has received money of
the United States, as pensioner, since the Sd
4 day OF March. one thousand eight hundred and
twenty six, aforesaid, the sum received shall
. BIO deducted from what said officer would other
wise be entitled to, under the first section of this
act and every pension to which said officer is
now entitled, shall after me passage of this
act.
/ Sec. 8. find be it further enacted, That everv
Surviving non commissioned officer, musician, or
private, in said army, who enisa i therein for and
during the war, and continued In service until its
termination, and thereby became entitled to re-
ceive reward of eighty dollars, under resolve
of Congress. passed May fifteen, seventeen hun
bred and seventy eight, shall be entitled toreceive
Ibis full monthly pay in said service, out of any
money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriat-
cd; to begin on the third day OF March, one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty six, and 10 continue
duifag his natural life: PFouided, That no non
commissioned officer, musician, private, in said
arIny, who is now on the pension list OF the Unit
-. slo.l, ,I~~ g =
Il act
Sec. 4. find be 1t further enacted, That the
pay allowed by this act shall, under the direction
of the Secretary of the Treasury, ne paid to the Of
ticer or soldier entitled thereto or their autho
ized attorney, at SUCH places andd days said Sec
rotary may drect and that no foreign officer shall
be entitled to said pay, nor shall any officer SOL
der receive the same, until he furnish to said Sec
rotary satisfactory evidence that he IS entitled to
the same, in conformity to the provisions of this
acts and the pay allowed by this act shall not, ip
any way, be transferable, or liable to attachment
levy, or seize by any legal process whatever, but
shall inure wholly to the personal benefit Of the
officer or soldier entitled to the same by this act
Sec. g. .d,ld be 1t further enacted, That so
much of said pay as accrued, by the provisions OF
this act, before third day of March, thousand
eight hundred and twenty eight, shall be paid TO
the officers and soldiers entitled to the same,
soon as may be, in the manner, and under the pro-
visions, aforementioned; and the pay which shall
accrue after said day, shall be paid semi annually,
in like manner, and under the same provisions.
April 90, 1928. Passed the Senate.
Attest: WALTER LOWRIE, Sec'ry.
WAsHINGror, May 1.-THE bill which pass
ed the Senate, for the relief of the survivors of
the Revolutionary Army, yesterday passed the
House of Representatives, without amendment, by
a most decisive majority. 1t now only wants the
signature Of the President to become law.
i Nat Int.
4 Nay ia resolution was adopted by the H.
OF r. TO meet daily at 10 o'clock, A. NJ. during the
: remainder of the session.
The House of Representatives yesterday order
ed the bill to abolish the Office OF Major General,
IN the military peace establishment to be engross-
q cd and read third time tomorrow. The question,
q therefore, will be settled in few days, whether
4any successor TO General Brown shall be appoint
ed, whether the Office itself shall be abolished
twill be seen by our report oil the proceedings
in Congress yesterday, that the Committee on
terence on the subject OF the bill making appropri
ations for Internal Improvements, made report in
<both Houses yesterday, which agreed to. The
&report recommends the adoption of the amend
ment made by the Senate in the title of the bill,
4 and modification by that body of their amend
nent in relation to the surveys to restrict the
appropriation to objects of national character.
The bill thus modified, therefore, has become
Flaw.
3 Lest an erroneous impression may go abroad as
to the real extent to which the bill for the relief Of
*the survivors of the revolutionary army goes it may
be proper to state that does not embrace all the
veterans OF that interesting period. Its operation
i2s confined to those officers who entitled to
1.-THE halfpay under the resolutions of Congress of
3l7S0, and to those privates who were entitled to
2bounty Of eighty dollars We know many men,
kbers, who voted against the present bill, who
<would have supported any bill which embraced the
whole of the officers; and il is due to them, as
well as necessary for the correct information of the
pubic, that it should be understood to what extent
3lhe Dill actually goes. Nat. Journal
The bill making appropriations for In
Rfernal improvements, which has been for some
weeks depending between the two Houses of Con-
&ress, upon disagreement respecting its details,
pas at length been finally passed, by compromise
<Pe'ween the two bodies, in which no principle APP
pears to have been sacrificed. The good work is
Ito 90 OH for the present, and the future is to take
8care Of itself We willing, as friends to the
system, 10 trust to the future. Indeed, no system
s worth straw that will not stand the test of ex-
Experiment, and Of public opinion upon that expert
3lnent. TNaf Int
Nay 16.--The Vice President having retired
8'rom the Chair OF the presiding officer of the Sc
llafe, the Honorable Samuel Smith, one Of the Sc
fators from the State of Maryland, was yesterday
fiected President pro tempore of the Senate.
~ On the first ballot for this highly respectable
PATTON, Mr. Macon, the venerable Senator from
North Carolina, elected, but declined serving.
General Smith was then chosen, by handsome
vote.
In the House of Representatives, yesterday, the
endIDents OF the Senate to the Tariff bill, were
hii adopted, through the instrumentality of the
PreVlous question-whicb, by the way has been
fery hmlliariy resorted to during the present
fion-and the bill now requires only the signature
90 the President to become law.
81 ihere IS one circumstance concerning this bill,
which 1t is important to merchants, as well as man
'iscturcrs, to be informed of. An amendment was
adopted III the Senate to the first section of the bill
4~nich postponed the time at which il is to take eff