Chapter CVIII. making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fify-five
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Chap. CVIII.— An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fify-five. July 27, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation. 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 pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five;
For invalid pensions, under various acts, three hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars; 1685, oh. 362.For pensions to widows and orphans, under acts of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and twenty-first of July, 1848, ch. 108.one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, ninety-six thousand dollars; 1836, ch. 189.For pensions to widows, under acts of the seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, third of March, one thousand eight 1843, ch. 102.1844, oh. 102.hundred and forty-three, and seventeenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, ten thousand dollars; 1848, ch. 8.For pensions to widows, under acts of the second of February, one 1848, oh. 120.thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and twenty-ninth of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, fifty-six thousand dollars; 1863, ch. 41.For pensions and half-pay to widows and orphans, under act of the third of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, three hundred and seventy-six thousand two hundred dollars.
Approved, July 27, 1854.