REVOLUTIONARY OFFICERS.
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~ THn SENATE THE U. STATEs.--FEDRrAnY e.


Mr. Mills, from the select committee 10 whom
The subject referred, reported the following bill
for the relief Of certain surviving officers OF the ar
my OF the reyolution.o


" BE it enacted &c. Tha, the accounting officers
Of The treasury be, and hey herby, directed and
required to adjust and make statement and distri-
button Of ----- dollars among such Of the survi
wing officers Of the revolution, by the act OF con.
gress, made on the 2ist day OF October, $780, were
entitled to half pay for life, and shall apply, in wr.
ing, Tor The benefit oil this act, TO within
months from the passage thereof; the dis
trbutlon TO be made in raleable proportion, &C
cording to the annual pay Of such officers and
when the distribution shall be SO made, certificate
shall issue to each officer aforesaid, for his pro
portion Of the sum above mentioned, TO be signed
By ----- and dated on the lst Of January last, and
bearing an interest Of S per cent per annum, paya
BILE quarterly, and rsdeemable at the pleasure Of the
government Prorided alicays, That no certificate
shall issue by virtue ct this act, unless upon ev
dence fully satisfactory, tina; such applicant is en
tied to the benefit thereof, to be adiudged by $50,
nor to any foreign or other officer or officers who
has, or have been, heretofore provided for by any
special law, account OF his or their revolutionary
services; nor to any officer who now is, or hereat
ter shall be- on the pension list unless such officer,
IN his application aforesaid, shall relinqush all
claims to such pension in luture.''


The bill was read and passed 10 its Cd reading.


The following is the report Of the committee on
the subject:


The committee to whom was referred sundry
petitions of officers who were in the service of the
United States in The line of the continental army,
at the termination Of the revolutionary war, beg
leave TO report:


That tor the purpose Of retaining in The army Of
the1Unted States, during the trying scenes of the
revolution, officers whose experience and abilities
rendered them eminen'y useful, and perhaps ne
cessary, for bringing the doubtful contest to sue.
cessful issue, The then congress, by an act OF the
2lst Oct. 1880, Resolved, That half pay for life
should be granted such officers as should continue
in the service until the termination OF the war;
| That this measure seemed necessary, both to the
congress which then conducted the war, and to the
commander in chief, not only ON account of the
great merits OF those officers, but Of their frequent
designations, occasoned by peculiar difficulties
growing out Of their want Of necessarics, and o
their pay, wherewith to purchase them; which
measure, in the opinion Of the commander chief
to use his own words was attended with all the hap


py consequences he had fore,old, far as regarded
!, the good ofthe service.