United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 100
Chap. C.—An Act to enable the President to make an arrangement with the government of France in relation to certain French seamen killed or wounded at Toulon, and their families.
Whereas certain French seamen were unfortunately killed and others wounded, by firing a salute from the American frigate United States in the harbour of Toulon, on the first day of May last, and whereas it is proper to manifest the sensibility, with which the disastrous accident is viewed by the government of the United States, therefore,
Arrangement to be made with France for payment of double pensions to persons wounded and relatives of those killed.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 hereby is authorized and empowered to enter into an arrangement with the government of France for the payment of an annual sum of twice the amount receivable by the navy pensioners of the same or a similar class to the wounded who survive, and to such relatives of those who were unhappily killed as aforesaid, as the President may deem it expedient to include in this provision, which said sum shall be paid on the earliest day practicable after the proposed arrangement shall be concluded, and on the same day in each year thereafter during the respective lives of the persons to whom granted.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum of money sufficient to enable the President to carry the aforesaid arrangement into effect, be and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 28, 1834.