Chapter XX. *making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy.* Feb. 2, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sta t es of America in Congress assembled,* That the foll
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Chap. XX.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy.* Feb. 2, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sta t es 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 seventy:
Invalid. For invalid pensions under various acts, nine million dollars. Revolutionary, pension agents and expenses of agencies. 1818, ch. 19. 1828, ch. 58. 1832, ch. 126. 1836, ch. 362. 1S38, 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. 1868, ch. 264. For pensions of widows, children, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters of soldiers, as provided for by acts of March eighteenth, 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 under various special acts, and lor compensation to pension agents and expenses of agencies, ten 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Navy pensions. Approved, February 2, 1869.