Chapter VII. making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States
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Chap. VII.— An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States. Jan. 29, 1827. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Sums respectively appropriated towards the payment of revolutionary pensioners. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and for the objects following; that is to say:
For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States,Revolutionary pensioners. one million two hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars; For the invalid and half pay pensioners, three hundred and one thousandInvalid pensioners. and fifty-five dollars; For pensions to the widows and orphans, twelve thousand dollars.Widows and orphans. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the said sums, respectively, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.
Approved, January 29, 1827.