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Chap. LV.—An Act further to extend the term of certain pensions chargeable on the privateer pension fund.
Pensions given under acts of March 4, 1814, ch. 20, and of April 16, 1818, ch. 65, continued for five years longer.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pensions of all widows who now are or have been heretofore in the receipt thereof, under the provision of the act entitled “An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States,” passed the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and the act 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,” passed the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, or either of said acts, 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 be paid from the proceeds of the privateer pensions fund, and without recourse to the United States, for any deficiency which may hereafter arise thereon, if any such there be:Proviso. And provided further, That no such pension shall be paid to any widow after her intermarriage, had or to be had.
Approved, June 19, 1834.
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Chap. LVI.—An Act to grant to the state of Ohio certain lands for the support of schools in the Connecticut Western Reserve.
Land equal to one thirty-sixth of Western reserve, including that heretofore granted, to be reserved from sale, and to vest in the state.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to reserve from sale, out of any public lands that have been heretofore offered at public sale, and that remain unsold in the state of Ohio, a quantity of land, which, together with the lands heretofore granted for the support of schools in the Connecticut Western Reserve, in said state, shall be equal to one thirty-sixth part of said Western Reserve; which said quantity of land may be reserved in sections, or half sections, or quarter sections; and, when so reserved, the same shall vest in the said state of Ohio, for the support of schools in said Western Reserve, and be holden by the same tenure, and upon the same terms and conditions, in all respects, as the said state now holds, or may hold, the lands heretofore granted for the support of schools in said Western Reserve.
Approved, June 19, 1834.
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Chap. LVII.—An Act to extend the time allowed for the discharge of the duties of the commission for carrying into effect the convention with France.
Commission extended to three years from first Monday in August, 1832.
Act of July 13, 1832, ch. 199.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of an act entitled “An act to carry into effect the convention between the United States and his majesty the king of the French, concluded at Paris on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-one,” approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as limits the duration of the commission created by the said act to two years, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that a period of three years, commencing on the first Monday of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be allowed for the discharge of the duties prescribed by the said act.
