Chapter XVII. 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 sixty-four
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Chap. XVII.— 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 sixty-four.February 3, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be andPensions and appropriations. 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, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
For army invalid pensions under various acts, three million dollars.Army invalid pensions. For pensions to Revolutionary soldiers, and the widows of those who1818, ch. 19.1828, ch. 53.1832, ch. 126.1836, ch. 362, § 3.1838, ch. 184.1843, ch. 102.1844, ch. 102.1848, ch. 8 and 120.1853, ch. 41. served in the Revolutionary War, under acts of eighteenth March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, fifteenth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the third section of the act of fourth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the acts of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, second February and twenty-ninth July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and second section act of third February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pensions to widows and orphans, under first section act fourth July,Widows and orphans.1848, ch 108.1858, ch. 85.1862, ch. 106. eighteen hundred and thirty-six, act of twenty-first July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, first section act of third February, eighteen hundred fifty-three, act third June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and act fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, three million eight hundred thousand dollars. For navy invalid pensions, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.Navy invalid pensions.
For navy pensions to widows and orphans, under act of eleventh Au-Navy pensions.638THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 17, 19. 1863.gust, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and fourteenth July, eighteen hundred1848, ch. 155. and sixty-two, five hundred thousand dollars. For privateer invalid pensions, three hundred dollars: *Provided,* ThatPrivateer.Pensions not to be paid to those in rebellion, &c. no pension shall be paid under this act to any person who has been engaged in the present rebellion against the Government of the United States, or has in any way given aid and comfort to those engaged in the rebellion.
Approved, February 3, 1863.