United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 37
Chap. XXXVII.—An Act placing certain persons on the list of Navy Pensioners.
Secretary of the navy to place on the list of pensioners the persons wounded at Dartmoor prison, and the widows and children of those killed, or who died of wounds received there, &c.Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place on the list of navy pensioners those persons who were wounded at Dartmoor prison, in England, in the month of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; also the widows and children of such as were killed, or who died in consequence of wounds received there; and that, in the allowance of pensions to the persons aforesaid, the regulations established by law, in relation to the placing persons on the list of navy pensioners, be observed.
This act to take effect from the 6th April, 1815.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be construed to take effect from the sixth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
Apporved, April 2, 1816.