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Document 257289 RICHARD RUSH Revolutionary War veteran is entitled to part of the $1.1 million appropriated. Partly Printed DS: "Richard Rush" as J.Q. Adams' Secretary of the Treasury, 1p, 7¾x10. Treasury Department, 1828 October 6. To Mr. Clammans Gilleham, care of John Hughes Jr., Springfield, Ky. Headed: "Revolutionary Claims./Under the act, entitled 'An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution,' approved 15th May, 1828." In full: "Your claim, under the abovementioned act, having been examined, you are found to be entitled to the pay of a Private of Infantry in the Continental Line. The amount which may be due, accordingly, will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States." On the floor of the U.S. Senate, on January 24, 1828, Senator Levi Woodbury of New Hampshire made a motion to appropriate $1.1 million to a bill "for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution". According to the Register of Debates, he said, in part: "Who, then, Sir, are the venerable men that knock at your door? and for what do they ask? They are not suppliants for mere favor or charity, though we all know that nothing but the proud spirit which helped to sustain them through the distresses of our revolution, has withheld most of them from reliance for daily bread on the alms provided by the present pension act. No, Sir; they come as petitioners for their rights. They come as the remnant of that gallant band who enlisted your continental army, who disciplined its ranks, who planned its enterprises and led the way to victory and independence...Amid the wrecks from time and disease, during almost half a century, short of 250 now survive...Even this small number is falling fast around us, as the leaves of autumn...." On May 15, 1828, President John Quincy Adams signed the bill into law. RUSH served as Madison's Attorney General (1814-1817), Monroe's Secretary of State ad interim (March 10 to September 22, 1817) and Attorney General (March 4 to October 30, 1817), U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1817-1825), J.Q. Adams' Secretary of the Treasury (1825-1829) and U.S. Minister to France (1847-1849). Lightly creased. Vertical fold touches the "R" in Richard. ½-inch separation at blank lower horizontal fold, nicked at blank upper horizontal fold. Slightly soiled. Overall, fine condition. SEE IF DOCUMENT 257289 IS FOR SALE RIGHT NOW!!
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