United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/2nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 14

by United States Congress

Feb. 27, 1793

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Chap. XIV.—An Act making provision for the persons therein mentioned.

Whereas Colonel John Harding, and Major Alexander Trueman, while employed in carrying messages of peace to the hostile Indians, were killed by the said Indians:

Allowance to the widows and orphans of John Harding and Alex. Trueman.Be it enacted, &c., That four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, for seven years, be allowed to the widow and orphan children of the said Colonel John Harding, and the sum of three hundred dollars per annum, for the same term of seven years, to the orphan children of the said Major Alexander Trueman, to commence on the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and to be paid half-yearly, at the treasury, to the said widow, and to the guardians of the said orphan children, or to their legal attorneys.

Approved, February 27, 1793.

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