Chapter XIV. making Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. April 5, 1856. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Th

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Chap. XIV.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.* April 5, 1856. *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 otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven:

For invalid pensions, under various acts, five hundred and three thousand three hundred dollars. For pensions under acts of the eighteenth March, one thousand eight1818, ch. 19.1828, ch. 53.1832, ch. 126. hundred and eighteen, fifteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and seventh June, one thousand eight, hundred and thirty-two, one hundred and thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. For pensions to widows of those who served during the revolutionary war, under the third section of acts of fourth July, one thousand eight1836, ch. 362.1S3S, ch. 189.1843, ch. 102.1844, ch. 102.1848, ch. 8.1853, ch. 41. hundred and thirty-six, seventh July, one thousand eight, hundred and thirty-eight, third March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, seventeenth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, second February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and second section act of third February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For pensions to widows and orphans, under act of twenty-first July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, first section act of third1848, ch. 108.1853, ch. 41. February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, two hundred and four thousand dollars. For half-pay pensions, payable through the second and third auditors of the treasury, thirty-eight thousand and forty-seven dollars and seven cents. For navy invalid pensions, thirty thousand dollars. For navy pensions to widows and orphans, under act of eleventh1848, ch. 155.Vol. ix. p. 282.

August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For paying pensions of invalids who were wounded on board of private armed vessels during the lost war with Great Britain, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations for the same object, thirteen hundred and fifty-seven dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the first section ofSo much of nets of 1828, ch. 53, 1832, ch. 126, part of 1848, ch. 155, as provides for payment out of any money not otherwise appropriated, be repealed. the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved fifteenth May, one 4THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 18. 1856.thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, of the first section of the act entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved seventh June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and of the first proviso of the first section of the act entitled “An act renewing certain naval pensions, and extending the benefit of existing laws respecting naval pensions to engineers, firemen, and coal-heavers in the navy, and to their widows,” approved eleventh August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, as provides for the payment of all pensions under the aforesaid acts out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be and the same is hereby repealed, from and after the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Sec. 3. Certain Pensions how paid.1854, ch. 60.Vol. x. p. 290. *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 of that year, and by the second section of the act of twenty-eighth February, eighteen 1865, ch. 126.hundred and fifty-five, making appropriations for the payment of pensions applicable to the payment of pensions of invalids who were wounded on Vol. x. p. 616.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 subsequent to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, it being hereby provided that pensions to invalids thus wounded shall be paid from moneys in the treasury of the United States in the same manner, upon appropriations made or to be made, as other pensions for naval or military services.

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