Chapter CCXXIX. *making Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United Stales for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.* July 23, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the fo
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Chap. CCXXIX.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United Stales for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.* July 23, 1868. *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 Pensions appropriation.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-nine:
Invalid. For invalid pensions under various acts, ten million dollars. Revolutionary, pension agents and expenses of agencies. 1818, ch. 19. 1828, ch. 53. 1832, ch. 126. 1836, ch. 862. 1838, ch. 189. 1843, ch. 102. 1844, ch. 102. 1848, ch. 8, 108, 120. 1853, ch. 41. 1858, ch. 85. 1862, ch. 166. 1864, ch. 247. 1865, ch. 84. 1866, ch. 106. Navy pensions. For pensions of widows, children, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters of soldiers, as provided by acts of March eighteen, eighteen hundred and eighteen;
May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight; June seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; March third, eighteen hundred and forty-three; June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-four; February second, July twenty-first, and July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; and July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, with its supplementary acts; and for compensation to pension agents and expenses of agencies, twenty million dollars.
For navy pensions to invalids, widows and children, and other relatives of the officers and men of the navy dying in the line of duty, now provided by law, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid from the navy pension fund. Rate of interest on naval pension fund. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the interest on the fund known as the naval pension fund shall hereafter be at the rate of three percent per annum in lawful money, and shall be applicable exclusively to the payment of the navy pensions according to existing laws.
Approved, July 23, 1868.