United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 118
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Chap. CXVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Sums respectively appropriated.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the objects following, to wit:
To revolutionary pensioners.For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars.
Widows, &c.For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, three thousand dollars.
Invalids, &c.For the invalid and half-pay pensioners, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Sums appropriated to be paid from treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Approved, May 24, 1828.