United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 8
Chap. VIII.—An Act to provide for the payment of Navy Pensions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation. That the sum of one hundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and six cents is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions and half-pay chargeable on the navy pension fund: Provided, That all widows or children of all naval officers, seamen, or marines,Proviso; pensions under act 3d March 1837, ch. 38, limited.
No widow, &c. of any naval officer, &c. who may hereafter die, entitled, under the act of 1837, ch. 38.
No officer, &c. shall receive pay as a pensioner and officer in service. now deceased, and entitled to receive or make proof of their pensions under the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall receive the same until the close of the next session of Congress; but no widows or children of any naval officer, seaman, or marine, who may hereafter die, shall be entitled to any pension by virtue only of any provision in the said act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no officer, seaman, or marine, entitled to a pension from the navy pension fund, who receives pay from the public treasury, shall receive more from said fund than is sufficient to make the whole amount received from both the above-named sources equal to the pay fixed by law for the grade to which the officer, seaman, or marine may belong as an officer in the services in which he may be engaged, during the year, so that no officer shall receive pay at the same time both as a pensioner and an officer in service.
Approved, August 16, 1841.