Rankin, Robert, Ransdell, Thomas, Read, Nathaniel, Read, Edmund, Read, Clement, Renner, John, Reddick, Jason, Reddick, Willis, Robins, John (2), Scott, John (2), Scott, Joseph, sen., Settle, Strother, Seldon, Samuel, Shepherd, Abraham, Shearman, Martin, Skelton, Clough, Shield, John, Shackelford, William, Singleton, Joseph, Singleton, Anthony, Skinner, Alexander, Slaughter, John, Slaughter, Philip, Slaughter, William, Slaughter, Lawrence, Slaughter, George, Slaughter, Augustine, Roberts, John, Rose, Robert, Smith, Obadiah, Smith, Gregory, Smith, Jonathan, Smith, William S., Smith, Ballard, Smith, Larkin, Smart, Richard, Snead, Smith, Stribling, Sigesmund, Stephens, Edward, Stuart, Philip, Starke, William, Starke, Richard, Stott, William, Summers, Simon, Summerson, Gavin, Swoope, John, Swearingen, Joseph, Swan, John, Tabb, Augustine, ⚫ Taliaferro, Nicholas, Taylor, Benjamin, Taylor, Richard, Taylor, Reuben, Taylor, Francis, Taylor, William, Taylor, Thornton, Tatem, Zechariah, Tannehill, Josiah, Tompkins, Christopher, Tompkins, Daniel R., Townes, John, Todd, Robert, Trant, Lawrence, Tresvant, John, Trabue, John, Travis, Edward, Triplett, George, Tutt, Charles, Turner, John, Tupman, John, Tyler, John, Upshur, Thomas, Upshur, James, Van Metre, Joseph, Vance, Robert, Vanse, William, Vaughan, Claiborne, Vaughan, John, Valentine, Edward, Valentine, Jacob, Vanderwall, Marks, Volluson, Armand, Vawters, William, Vowles, Charles, Vowles, Heury, Taylor, Isaac, Vowles, Walter, 1 NOTE.-After the Revolution, the greater part of these officers emigrated to the military land districts in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, where their representatives now reside. VIRGINIA HALF-PAY. ACT MAY SESSION, 1779. Be it enacted, That all general officers of the army, being citizens of this Commonwealth, and all field-officers, captains, and subalterns, commanding, or who shall command in the battalions of this Commonwealth, on Continental establishment, or serving in the battalions raised for the immediate defence of this State, or for the defence of the United States; and all chaplains, physicians, surgeons, and surgeons' mates, appointed to the said battalions, or any of them, being citizens of this Commonwealth, and not being in the service of Georgia or of any other State, provided Congress do not make some tantamount provision for them, who shall serve henceforward, or from the time of their being commissioned, until the end of the war; and all such officers who have or shall become supernumerary on the reduction of any of the said battalions, and shall again enter into the said service, if required so to do, in the same or any higher rank, and continue therein until the end of the war, shall be entitled to half-pay during life, to commence from the determination of their command or service. ACT NOVEMBER SESSION, 1781. Be it enacted, That the officers and seamen of the navy of this State, as they stand arranged by a late regulation, shall be entitled to the same advantages as the officers belonging to this State in the land service, agreeable to their respective ranks. The officers of Virginia under those acts prosecuted their claims for half-pay to judgment in the courts of the State, and Congress assumed the payment of those judgments, &c., by the following ACT, APPROVED JULY 5, 1832. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury do liquidate and pay the accounts of the Commonwealth of Virginia against the United States, for payments to the officers commanding in the Virginia Line in the war of the Revolution, on account of the half-pay for life promised the officers aforesaid by that Commonwealth, the sum of one hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred and fortythree dollars and sixty cents. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, required and directed to pay to the |