Chapter XXI. malting Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three
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CHAP. XXI.— An Act malting Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.Feb. 20, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatPensions appropriation. 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, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, viz.:— ForArmy pensions, artificial limbs, pension agents, &c. army pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, revolutionary pensions, and pensions to soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for resection, with transportation, or commutation therefor; also, for compensation to pension agents, and the expenses of the several agencies, and for fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, as provided for by the acts of April1818, ch. 68.1836, ch. 362.1846, ch. 16.1847, ch. 13.1848, ch. 8, 108, 120.1853, ch. 41.1858, ch. 85.1862, ch. 166, 201.1864, ch. 183.1866, ch. 106, 235.1868, ch. 264.1870, ch. 132, 225, 238.1871, ch. 50. twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixteen;
July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six; February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; February second, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; June third, eighteen hundfed and fifty-eight; July fourteenth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four;
June sixth and July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; June seventeenth and July eighth and eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy; and February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and all other pensions provided by law, thirty million dollars. 32FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 21–24. 1872. ForNavy pensions, &c. navy pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, and pensions to sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for resection, with transportation or commutation therefor, compensation to pension agents, expenses of agencies, and fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, as provided1800, ch. 33.1847, ch. 13.1848, ch. 155.1882, ch. 160, 201.1804, ch. 183.1866, ch. 106, 235.1867, ch. 174.1868, ch. 264.1870, ch. 132, 225, 238. by the acts of April twenty-third, eighteen hundred;
February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; August eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; July fourteenth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; June sixth and July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; June seventeenth and July eighth and eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, and all other [tensions provided by law, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions, and the other expenditures under that head, shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose.
Approved, February 20, 1872.