Chapter CXVIII. making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine
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Chap. CXVIII.— An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. May 24, 1828. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by flu Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Sums respectively appropriated. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the objects following, to wit:
To revolutionary pensioners.For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars. Widows, &c.For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, three thousand dollars. Invalids, &c.For the invalid and half-pay pensioners, seventy-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. Sums appropriated to be paid from treasury. *And be it further enacted, *That the sums herein appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Approved, May 24, 1828.