“An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows or persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States,” the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized, at the expiration of the term of five years, for which any pension certificate shall have been granted as aforesaid, to allow the full monthly pension to which the rank of the deceased would have entitled him for the highest rate of disability, and that such pension shall continue to such person for the further term of five years: Provided, That such pension shall cease on the death of such widow, child, or children.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any officer, seamen or marine, shall have died since the eighteenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, in consequence of an accident or casualty, which occurred while in the line of hid duty on board a private armed vessel, leaving a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to place such widow, child or children, on the pension list, and allow to such widow, child, or children, the same monthly pension as if the deceased had died by reason of wounds received in the line of his duty: Provided, That all moneys paid by virtue of this act shall be paid out of the privateer pension fund, and no other.
Approved, April 16, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. LXVI.—An Act directing the manner of appointing Indian Agents, and continuing the “Act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.”
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
Superintendent of Indian trade, agents, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the superintendent of Indian trade, the agents and assistant agents of Indian trading houses, and the several agents of Indian affairs, shall be nominated by the President of the United States, and appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
After 18th April, 1818, no person to act without the consent of the Senate.
Agents to give bond in 10,000 dollars.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the eighteenth instant, no person shall act in either of the characters aforesaid, who shall not have been thus first nominated and appointed. And every agent as aforesaid, before he shall enter upon the duties of his office, shall give bond to the United States, with two or more sufficient securities, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned faithfully to perform all the duties which are or may be enjoined on them as agents as aforesaid.
The act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes continues until 1st March, 1819.
Act of 1811, ch. 30.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 43.
Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 45.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, which was continued in force for a limited time by an act passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and no longer.
Approved, April 16, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. LXVII.—An Act to enable the people of the Illinois territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states.[1]
- ↑ An act for dividing the Indiana territory into two separate governments. Feb. 3, 1809, ch. 13. An act to extend the right of suffrage to the Illinois territory, and for other purposes. May 20, 1812, ch. 90.
