31-1Revolutionary PensionsReport : Petition of J. Caldwell. [584]
Indian war; 1795.1850-8

House of Representatives Report No. 319, 31st Congress, 1st Session (1850)

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31st CoNGREss, 1st Session. Rep. No. 319. JOHN CALDWELL. MAY 9, 1850. Laid upon the table. Ho. OF REPS. Mr. W ALno, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following REPORT: The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Caldwell, respectfully report: · 'rhe petitioner claims to have been a soldier in the army of General \Vayne, and to have served a period of nine months in an expedition against the Indians in the year 1795, and he asks for some gratuity for said service. 'rhe committee are of opinion that, if anything is done filr the soldiers who served in the army of General Wayne, it should be done by a general law' and tha't there is nothing in this case to commend it specially to favnr. The subject of a general law, embracing a class of cases of which this is one, being before Congress, and a bill having been reported from the Committee on Pn blic Lands which will afford adequate relief in the premises·, the commitlee ask to be discharged from the f~rther consideration of this subject, and recommend that the p~tition P@ laid upon the table. • ' 

John Caldwell

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John Caldwell

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