under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, which allowance shall continue for the term of five years; but in the case of the death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half-pay for the remainder of such term shall go to the child or children of the deceased: Provided,Proviso. That such half-pay shall cease on the death of such child or children. And the money required for this purpose shall be paid out of the navy pension fund under the direction of the commissioners of that fund.
Approved, March 4, 1814.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXI.—An Act authorizing the President of the United States to cause to be built, equipped and employed, one or more floating batteries for the defence of the waters of the United States.
Specific appropriation for building floating batteries.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of five hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of building, equipping, and putting into service, one or more floating batteries of such magnitude and construction as shall appear to the President of the United States best adapted to attack, repel, or destroy any of the ships of the enemy which may approach the shores or enter the waters of the United States; and the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 4, 1814.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Specific appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment of the United States, including the volunteers and militia in their actual service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for ordnance, fortifications and the Indian department, the following sums, including the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars already appropriated by the first section of the act, entitledAct of Jan. 11, 1814, ch. 2. “An act making certain partial appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen,” be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay of the army of the United States, including the private servants kept by officers, and for the pay of the volunteers and militia in the actual service of the United States, seven millions nine hundred sixty-five thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For forage to officers, two hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars.
For subsistence of the army, and of volunteers and militia, four million nine hundred and seventeen thousand four hundred and seventy dollars.
For camp and field equipage, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, two million five hundred and forty thousand dollars.