Letter from Roger B. Taney to C. J. Faulkner

Letter from Roger B. Taney to C. J. Faulkner
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PDF icon Letter from Roger B. Taney to C. J. Faulkner
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.

People: 
Taney, Roger Brooke
Faulkner, C. J.
Subject: 
Legal Affairs
Politics and Government
Format: 
Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 
1820-1839
Location: 
I-AsbellY-2004-13
Origin: 
Gift of Yale Asbell