United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 76

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4052040United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Third Session, Chapter 76United States Congress


March 3, 1843.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. LXXVI.An Act making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the navy pensions, which will become due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

Pay of invalids.To pay the invalids now on the rolls, (and those who may be added during the first half year of one thousand eight hundred and forty-three,) on the said first day of July, twenty thousand dollars; and on the [said] first day of January, twenty thousand dollars.

Widows’ pensions under act of June 30, 1834, ch. 134.To pay widows’ pensions under the act of June thirty, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, (including not only those who are now on the rolls, but those who may be added for the first half year of one thousand eight hundred and forty-three,) on the said first day of July, three thousand dollars; and on the said first day of January, three thousand dollars.

Claims of widows and orphans under the act of March 3, 1837.To pay the claims of widows and orphans, under the act of March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, on the said first day of July, eight thousand dollars; and on the first day of January, eight thousand dollars.

Approved, March 3, 1843.