United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 41
Chap. XLI.—An Act renewing certain naval pensions for the term of five years.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Pensions heretofore granted to widows continued. That the pensions for the period of five years, which have been heretofore granted out of the naval pension fund, to the widows of officers, seamen, and marines, who have been killed or died by reason of a wound received in the line of their duty, or who have died by reason of disease contracted, or of a casualty, by drowning or otherwise, or of injury received while in the line of their duty, and which pensions have ceased in consequence of the expiration of the period for which they were originally granted, or for which they were subsequently renewed, shall be continued for another period of five years, to such of the said widows as have remained unmarried; to commence from the day on which such pensions, respectively, terminated; and to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated:Proviso. Provided, That every pension hereby renewed shall cease on the death or intermarriage of the widow to whom the same is hereby granted.
Approved, March 1, 1845.