Chapter CXXVI. *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 fifty-six, and for other Purposes.* Feb. 28, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame
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Chap. CXXVI.— 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 fifty-six, and for other Purposes.* Feb. 28, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not 616 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 127. 1855.otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six:— For invalid pensions, under various acts, five hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred dollars; 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, 1836, ch. 363. 1848, ch. 108.one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, seventy-eight thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;
For pensions under special acts of Congress, nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For pensions to widows, under acts of the seventeenth of June, one 1844, ch. 102. 1848, ch. 8. 1848, ch. 120.thousand eight hundred and forty-four, second of February and twenty-ninth July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, three hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars; For pensions and half-pay to widows and orphans, under act of the 1853, ch. 41.third of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, four hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars.
Reappropriation of deficiency appropriation for pensions. 1854, ch. 60. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That any moneys appropriated by the act of thirty-first May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, to supply deficiencies for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, applicable to the payment of pensions of invalids who were wounded on board of private armed vessels during the last war with Great Britain, not required under the provisions thereof, may be applied to the same purpose for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the widows of the officers, Widows of marines and mariners in the revolutionary war.non-commissioned officers, marines or mariners who served in the navy of the United States during the revolutionary war, and who were married since the first day of January, eighteen hundred, shall be entitled to pensions in the same manner and to the same extent as the widows of the officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution, under the second section of the act of February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.
Approved, February 28, 1855.