Chapter XXV. making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine
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Chap. XXV.— An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. Feb. 13, 1839.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriations.Revolutionary pensioners under acts other than those of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, June 7, 1832, ch. 126, and July 4, 1836, ch. 362. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in addition to former appropriations, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine:
For the revolutionary pensioners, under the several acts, other than those of the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; the seventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two;TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 26, 27. 1839.317 and the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, three hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:Invalid pensioners.Pensions to widows and orphans under act July 4th, 1836, ch. 362.Pensions to widows under act July 7th, 1838, ch. 189.Halfpay pensions payable through office Third Auditor.
For the invalid pensioners, under various laws, three hundred thousand six hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixty-three cents: For pensions to widows and orphans under the act of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, four hundred and ninety thousand and eighty-four dollars and fifty-two cents: For five years’ pensions to widows, per act seventh July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, one million three hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars:
For half-pay pensions, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, ten thousand dollars. Approved, February 13, 1839.