Number of Pages
2
Date
January 17, 1834
Treasury Secretary Roger Brooke Taney writes to C. J. Faulkner regarding the "act of Congress of July 5th, 1832." This Act, written in response to a case brought by a Virginia family, prohibits posthumous military pensions from being paid when the soldier instead opts to collect a lump sum during his lifetime.
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Location
I-AsbellY-2004-13
Origin
Gift of Yale Asbell
