Chapter XIII. making Appropriations for the Payment of Revolutionary and other Pensions of the United States, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two
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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 of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.Feb. 27, 1851. *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 pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two:— For revolutionary pensions, under the act of the eighteenth of 1818, ch. 19.
March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fifty-eight thousand dollars. For invalid pensions, under various acts, five hundred thousand five hundred dollars. For pensions for widows and orphans, under the acts of July the 1836, ch. 362.1848, ch. 108. fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and July the twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, six hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For pensions to widows, under the act of seventh July, eighteen 1838, ch. 189. hundred and thirty-eight, sixty thousand dollars.
For pensions to widows, under the act of the third of March, eighteen 1843, ch. 102. hundred and forty-three, twenty thousand dollars. For pensions to widows, under the acts of the seventeenth June, 1844, ch. 102.1848, ch. 8. eighteen hundred and forty-four, second of February, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and twenty-ninth of July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, eight hundred and sixty-two thousand six hundred and forty dollars. For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, provided for by the eleventh section of an act approved January the twenty-ninth, eighteen 1813, ch. 16.1816, ch. 55. hundred and thirteen, and the first and second sections of an act approved the sixteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, in addition to a balance remaining in the treasury undrawn on the fifteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty, of twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars and nine cents, ten thousand dollars.
Approved, February 27, 1851.