United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 58
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Chap. LVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.
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 the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five:
Invalid pensions.To pay invalid pensions, forty thousand dollars;
Widows’ pensions under act of June 30, 1834, ch. 134.To pay widows’ pensions, under the act of thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, six thousand dollars;
Widows and orphans, act of March 3, 1837, ch. 42.To pay widows’ and orphans’ pensions, under the act of third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, sixteen thousand dollars.
Invalid pensions, from the time they were stopped.For payment of invalid pensioners, heretofore paid from the privateer pension fund, their several pensions to commence from the time they were stopped in consequence of the exhaustion of said fund, eighteen thousand dollars;
Widows and orphans of persons lost in the Grampus and Sea gull.
1844, ch. 53.For payment of pensions to the widows and orphans of those persons who were lost in the United States’ schooner Sea Gull and in the United States’ schooner Grampus, agreeably to the provisions of an act passed at the present session entitled “An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen and marines of the United States’ schooner Grampus,” ten thousand dollars.
Approved, June 15, 1844.