Chapter XL. 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-one
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Chap. XL.— 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-one.August 17, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following Appropriations for pensions for 1850–51. 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-one.
For revolutionary pensions under the act of the eighteenth of March, Revolutionary pensions, etc.1818, ch. 19. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, forty-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars. For invalid pensions under various acts, three hundred thousand Invalid pensions, etc. dollars. For pensions to widows and orphans, under the acts of the fourth of Pensions to widows and orphans, etc.1836, ch. 362.1848, ch. 108. July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and twenty-first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, three hundred and sixty thousand six hundred dollars.
For pensions to widows under the act of the seventh of July, one Pensions to widows, under the act of 7th July, 1838, ch. 189. thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, sixty thousand dollars. For pensions to widows under the act of the third of March, one Pensions to widows, under the act of 1843, ch. 102. thousand eight hundred and forty-three, twenty thousand dollars. For pensions to widows under the acts of the seventeenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, second of February, one Pensions to widows, under the acts of 1844, ch. 102, 1848, ch. 8, and ch. 120. thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and twenty-ninth of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, five hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars.
For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, under the act of the Half-pay pensions to widows and orphans under the acts of 1802, ch. 9, § 15, 1816, ch. 55, in addition to an unexpended balance, etc. sixteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve,** This should be March 16, 1802. and the act of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, in addition to an unexpended balance remaining in the treasury of five thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents, payable through the third auditor’s office, eighteen thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
Approved, August 17, 1850.