United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/10th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 54
Chap. LIV.—An Act for the relief of Philip Turner.
Allowance of half-pay as captain.Be it enacted, &c., That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are authorized and directed, to liquidate and settle the account of Philip Turner, late hospital physician and surgeon, and that they allow him the commutation equal to the half pay of a captain, agreeably to a resolution of Congress, passed on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one: Provided, the said Philip Turner, on the receipt of the money directed to be paid him by this act, shall execute in consideration thereof, a discharge to the United States, of all demands whatsoever, and deposit the same in the office of the register of the treasury.
Approved, April 22, 1808.