Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXXIV.—An Act extending the term of pensions granted to persons disabled and to the widows and orphans of those who have been slain, or who have died, in consequence of wounds or casualties, received while in the line of their duty, on board the private armed ships of the United States, during the late war.[1]
Acts of March 4, 1814, ch. 20, and April 16, 1818, ch. 65, extended.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 190.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, the pensions of all persons, who now are in the receipt thereof, under the provisions of the following laws of the United States, or either of them, to wit: an act passed March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States;” and an act passed April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act in addition to an act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States:” so far as regards persons receiving pensions from the fund arising from captures and salvage, made by the private armed vessels of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, continued, under the restrictions and regulations in the said acts contained, for and during the additional term of five years, from and after the period of the expiration of the said pensions, respectively:Proviso. Provided, however, That the said pensions shall alone be paid from the proceeds of the privateer pension fund so called, and without recourse to the United States for any deficiency (should such occur,) which may hereafter arise thereon: And provided, further, That no pension shall be paid to any such widow after her intermarriage, nor to any orphan children of such officer, seamen, or marines, after they shall have attained the age of sixteen years.
Approved, April 9, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXXV.—An Act confirming certain acts of James Miller, as governor of the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Official acts of James Miller as governor of Arkansas, from March 3, 1822, to Jan. 3, 1823, declared valid.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the official acts and proceedings of James Miller, as governor of the territory of Arkansas, from the third day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, to the third day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, be, and the same are hereby, declared to have the same validity, force and effect, as if the said James Miller had been duly appointed and commissioned for and during the said term, by the President of the United States, as governor of the territory of Arkansas; and he is hereby authorized to have and receive the same salary, pay and emoluments, as he would by law have been entitled, during the same period, to receive, if he had been so appointed and commissioned as aforesaid.
Approved, April 9, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXXVI.—An Act to change the terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States in the state of Ohio, and one of the terms of the circuit court in Kentucky.[2]
- ↑ This act was revived by the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 190.
- ↑ See vol. ii. 420, 516.
