United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 19
March 1, 1817.
Chap. XIX.—An Act granting a pension to Commodore Richard Taylor.
A pension granted.Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, a pension of three hundred dollars per annum be allowed to Commodore Richard Taylor, in consequence of a total disability arising from a wound received in a conflict with the enemy in the revolutionary war, while in the command of a flotilla in the waters of the Chesapeake, under a commission of captain in the navy from the state of Virginia; to be paid to him, the said Taylor, half yearly, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.
Apporved, March 1, 1817.