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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Jan. 20, 1853 · Chapter XX

Chapter XX. making an Appropriation for the Payment of Navy Pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four

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Chap. XX.— An Act making an Appropriation for the Payment of Navy Pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. Jan. 20, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sum be, and Appropriation.the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pay of navy pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four: For invalid pensions, twenty-five thousand dollars. Approved, January 20, 1853.
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