United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 4
[Obsolete.]
Chap. IV.—An Act making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to wit:
Revolutionary pensions.For revolutionary pensions, under the act of the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, in addition to a probable balance at the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of one hundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars, eighty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars.
Invalid pensions.For invalid pensions, under various acts, two hundred thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Pensions to widows and orphans.
1836, ch. 362.For pensions to widows and orphans, per act of the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in addition to a probable balance at the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of thirty-thousand dollars, two hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
1838, ch. 189.For five years pensions to widows, per act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, two hundred thousand dollars.
Approved, February 12, 1842.