Chapter IV. *making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.* Feb. 12, 1842. [Obsolete.] *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 the same are hereby, appropriated, o
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Chap. IV.— An Act *making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.* Feb. 12, 1842. [Obsolete.] *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 the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to wit: Revolutionary pensions. For revolutionary pensions, under the act of the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, in addition to a probable balance at the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of one hundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars, eighty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars.
Invalid pensions. For invalid pensions, under various acts, two hundred thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. Pensions to widows and orphans. 1836, ch. 362. For pensions to widows and orphans, per act of the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in addition to a probable balance at the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of thirty-thousand dollars, two hundred forty-two thousand two hundred and forty dollars. 1838, ch. 189. For five years pensions to widows, per act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, two hundred thousand dollars.
Approved, February 12, 1842.