Chapter XIII. *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.* May 7, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
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Chap. XIII.— 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.* May 7, 1846. *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 inAppropriation. the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven:
For revolutionary pensions under the act of eighteenth March, oneRevolutionary pensions.1818, ch. 19. thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars. For invalid pensions under various acts, two hundred and twentyInvalid pensions thousand dollars. 6TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 14. 1846. Pensions to widows and orphans.1836, ch. 362.For pensions to widows and orphans under the act of fourth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. 1838, ch. 189.For pensions to widows under the act of seventh July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and the acts supplementary thereto, three hundred thousand dollars. 1843, ch. 102.For pensions to widows under the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, eighty thousand dollars. 1844, ch. 102.For pensions to widows under the act of seventeenth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, six hundred thousand dollars.
For halt-pay pensions to widows and orphans, payable through the Third Auditor’s office, four thousand five hundred dollars. Arrearages.For arrearages prior to July second, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the Third Auditor’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars. Sec. 2. Evidence necessary to entitle a widow to a pension. *And be it further enacted,* That no widow entitled to a pension under existing laws, and claiming a pension, whose husband was drawing a pension at the time of his decease, shall be required, in any such case, to furnish any further evidence that said husband was entitled to a pension; nor shall any evidence, in any case, be required to entitle the widow to a pension, when the evidence is in the archives of the government, other than such proof as would be sufficient to establish the marriage between the applicant and the deceased Proviso, that the commissioner is satisfied. 1848, ch. 71, § 2.pensioner in civil personal actions in a court of justice: *Provided, *That, upon a revision of the testimony in the case of the deceased husband, the commissioner be satisfied that the pension was properly granted.
Sec. 3. Act of 1845, ch. 71, § 4, respecting the reopening of settled accounts and the limitation of claims on the U. S., not to apply to pensions. *And be it further enacted,* That the fourth section of an act entitled “An Act making Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth Day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-six, and for other Purposes,” shall not be so construed as to apply to applications for pensions.
Approved, May 7, 1846.