Revolutionary Claims. Speech of Hon. Reuben E. Fenton, of New York
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On the 'IZiX of March, 1783, a resolu- tion was passed, providing that the officers and others en- tillod to half pay tor life ' shall bo entitled to receive, at the end of the war, their live years' full pay, in lieu of half pay for life, in money — that is, specie — or in securities on inter- est, as Congress shall llnd most convenient.' Oh the "iSth of January, 1794, l)r. Baird applied for the bonelit of this provision, but ili'ed in the year 3800 — having, as is said m the report ol the Com...mittee of Claims of the 5th of Febru- ary. 1855, ' became wearied and disheartened with delay.' In tlie year 1818, his son, Thomas H. Riird, having become of age, petitioned Congress for relief ; and on the 3d of March, 1856, the comroittee reported that 'Dr. Absalom Baird was entitled to the beuclit of the act of the 17th of January, 1781, extending the grant of half pay for life to the oflicers of the hospital department and medical staff.' No action was had upon the resolution until the 22d of Juno, 18^6, when an act was passed grantuig five years full pay as commutation, under the resolution of 1783, but wilhoul interest.
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