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U.S.DOCUMENTS REGARDING SERVICES OF COL.FRANCIS TAYLOR.
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commutation pay with interest to the heirs of Captain Garland Bumley [Should be Garland Burnley-PFT], another officer of this regiment, at the second session of the 25th Congress. The committee so decided in their report at the second session of the 25th Congress, in conceding the commutation pay to the heirs of Captain James Burton, another officer of said regiment; likewise so decided in their report at the second session of the 24th Congress, conceding commutation pay to the legal representatives of James Purvis; so decided again at the third sesson of the 25th Congress, in conceding commutation pay to the heirs of Samuel O.Pettus, another officer of said regiment. Besides the Committee of Revolutionary Claims of which the Hon.Judge Underwood, from Kentucky, was the Chairman, did at several sessions of Congress, make favorable reports in the case of Colonel Taylor, allowing commutation pay one of which was acted on in the House and passed, but owing to the lateness of the session, did not reach the Senate in time to be considered. The Committee on Public Lands, at the first session of the 28th Congress, investigated all the laws and facts touching the claims of this regiment, and showed, as appears to your committee beyond the shadow of a doubt, that this regiment of Colonel Taylor's was a continental regiment, (See report No. 457, 1st session 28th Congress from page 115 to 123 inclusive.)
Your committee are satisfied that a more meritorious claim could not be presented to the consideration of Congress, nor one more clearly embraced by the resolutions of Congress of the 21st October, 1780, and 22nd, March 1783; and therefore report a bill granting relief prayed in the memorial.
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29th CONGRESS H.R. 288.
1st Session. [Report No. 380]
March 5, 1846.
Read, and committed to a Committee ofthe Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Grider, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Edmund H.Taylor, the administrator with the will annexed of Colonel Francis Taylor, deceased.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that
3 the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are
4 hereby required to adjust and settle the account of Colonel
5 Francis Taylor, late of the Virginia line on continental estab
6 lishment, and allow his administrator with the will annexed
7 five years' full pay as a colonel of infantry, being the commuta
8tion of half pay for life promised by the resolutions of Con
9gress, with such interest thereon as would have been payable if
10 a certificate for the amount had been given to the said Taylor,
11 and the same had been subscribed to the funded debt of the Uni
12ted States under the act of August the fourth, one thousand
13 seven hundred and ninety; and that the same be paid out of
14 any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[The printed copy of the above report is endorsed "The report is not yet printed.---Grider.--This was Hon.Henry Grider, M.C. from Kentucky-PFT]