Chapter LVIII. making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five
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Chap. LVIII.— An Act making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.June 15, 1844. [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, for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five:
To pay invalid pensions, forty thousand dollars;Invalid pensions. To pay widows’ pensions, under the act of thirtieth June, eighteen Widows’ pensions under act of June 30, 1834, ch. 134. hundred and thirty-four, six thousand dollars; To pay widows’ and orphans’ pensions, under the act of third March, Widows and orphans, act of March 3, 1837, ch. 42. eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, sixteen thousand dollars. For payment of invalid pensioners, heretofore paid from the privateer Invalid pensions, from the time they were stopped. pension fund, their several pensions to commence from the time they were stopped in consequence of the exhaustion of said fund, eighteen thousand dollars;
For payment of pensions to the widows and orphans of those persons Widows and orphans of persons lost in the Grampus and Sea Gull. 1844, ch. 53. who were lost in the United States’ schooner Sea Gull and in the United States’ schooner Grampus, agreeably to the provisions of an act passed at the present session entitled “ An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen and mariners of the United States’ schooner Grampus,” ten thousand dollars. Approved, June 15, 1844.