United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 189

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4010103United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Chapter 189United States Congress


Aug. 23, 1842.

Chap. CLXXXIX.An Act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the navy pension fund.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of eighty-four Appropriation to supply the deficiency in the navy pension fund.thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply any deficiency which may exist in the navy pension fund, for the payment of the semi-annual navy pensions, which will be due on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-two.

Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 38, repealed.
Pensions to be regulated according to the pay of the navy on the 1st of January, 1835.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled “An act to provide for the more equitable administration of the navy pension fund,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-two. And all pensions to officers and seamen in the naval service shall be regulated according to the pay of the navy as it existed on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

Act of April 6, 1838, ch. 56, partially repealed; and the time for unclaimed money to remain in the hands of the agents, extended to 14 months.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, entitled “An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, as requires pensions that may have remained unclaimed in the hands of pension agents for eight months to be returned to the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that the time within which such pensions shall be returned to the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, extended to fourteen months, subject to all the other restrictions and provisions contained in the said act.

Approved, August 23, 1842.


  1. Act relating to the navy pension fund, July 10, 1832, chap. 194.