Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 38, repealed.
Pensions to be regulated according to the pay of the navy on the 1st of January, 1835.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled “An act to provide for the more equitable administration of the navy pension fund,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-two. And all pensions to officers and seamen in the naval service shall be regulated according to the pay of the navy as it existed on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
Act of April 6, 1838, ch. 56, partially repealed; and the time for unclaimed money to remain in the hands of the agents, extended to 14 months.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, entitled “An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, as requires pensions that may have remained unclaimed in the hands of pension agents for eight months to be returned to the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that the time within which such pensions shall be returned to the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, extended to fourteen months, subject to all the other restrictions and provisions contained in the said act.
Approved, August 23, 1842.
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Chap. CXC.—An Act for the relief of certain settlers in the Territory of Wisconsin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Settlers at Mineral Point who have been refused entry under the pre-emption act of June 19, 1834, allowed to enter one quarter section elsewhere.
1834, ch. 54. That every settler in the district of lands subject to sale at Mineral Point, in the Territory of Wisconsin, who shall show, by proof which shall be satisfactory to the register and receiver of the land office at Muscoday, that he, by cultivation and possession, as required by the pre-emption act of the nineteenth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, was entitled to a right of pre-emption; and that he, the said settler, was refused the privileges granted by said act, in consequence of the mineral character of the tract of land applied for by him, shall be permitted to enter, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, one complete quarter section of land, of any lands in said land district which have not yet been offered at public sale:Proviso. Provided, That no tract shall be entered, by any settler claiming under this act, which contains mines or discoveries of lead ore, or on which there may be an improvement, or on which any person may have a residence, or which may have been reserved from sale:Proviso, that the claimant shall make oath to the facts stated. And provided, further, That the claimant, under this act, and his witnesses, shall make oath, before a person duly qualified to administer oaths, to all the facts stated by them.
Instructions of Sec. Treasury to be complied with.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act be carried into effect, in conformity with the instructions which may be given by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the register and receiver of the land office at Muscoday.
Approved, August 23, 1842.
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Chap. CXCI.—An Act to amend the acts of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows.
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.
July 7, 1838, ch. 189.
Marriage of the widow to be no bar to her pension, if a widow at the time of applying.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the marriage of the widow, after the death of her husband, for whose services she claims a pension, under the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall be no bar to the claim of such widow to the benefit of that act, she being a widow at the time she makes application for a pension.
