Chapter LXXI. *making Appropriations for the Payment of Revolutionary and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.* June 26, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress ass
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Chap. LXXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Payment of Revolutionary and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.* June 26, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
For revolutionary pensions, under the act of the eighteenth of March, Revolutionary pensions. 1818, ch. 19.one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in addition to an unexpended balance remaining in the treasury of eighty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-three cents, fourteen thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty-seven cents. For invalid pensions, under various acts, two hundred and sixty Invalid pensions.thousand dollars. For pensions to widows and orphans, under the act of the fourth of For widows and orphans. 1836, ch. 362.July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, in addition to an unexpended balance remaining in the treasury of one hundred and fifty-one thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirty-six cents, thirty-two thousand eight hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-four cents.
For pensions to widows, under the act of the second February, 1848, ch. 8.eighteen hundred and forty-eight, in addition to the unexpended balance of two hundred and sixty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents remaining in the treasury of a former appropriation for the payment of pensions, under the act of seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, one hundred 1814, ch. 102.and thirty-six thousand two hundred and seventy dollars and thirteen cents.
For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, payable through the For half-pay pensions to willows and orphans.Third Auditor’s office, in addition to an unexpended balance remaining in the treasury of eight thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and four cents, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred Arrearages.and fifteen, payable through the offices of the Second and Third 240 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 72, 73, 74. 1848.Auditors, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand two hundred and one dollars and forty-five cents, eight hundred dollars.
Proviso in act of 7th May, 1816, ch. 13, repealed. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the proviso to the second section of the act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and for other purposes,” approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, June 26, 1848.