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FIFTEENTH
Congress, Session I, Chapter 65, Volume 3.
An Act in addition to "An act giving
pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private
vessels of the
Sec. 1. Be it
enacted in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That in every case where a person has been
put on the pension list, or granted a certificate of pension, by virtue of the
first section of the act, passed the fourth day of March, in the year eighteen
hundred and fourteen, entitled "An act giving pensions to the orphans and
widows of persons slain in the public and private vessels of the United
States," the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized, at the
expiration of the term of five years, for which any pension certificate shall
have been granted as aforesaid, to allow the full monthly pension to which the
rank of the deceased would have entitled him for the highest rate of
disability, and that such pension shall continue to such person for the further
term of five years: provided, that
such pension shall cease on the death of such widow, child, or children.
Sec.
2. And
be it further enacted, That if any officer, seaman, or marine, shall have
died since the eighteenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve,
in consequence of an accident or casualty, which occurred while in the line of duty on board a private armed
vessel, leaving a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen
years of age, the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to
place such, widow, child or children, on the pension list, and allow to such
widow, child, or children, the same monthly pension as if the deceased had died
by reason of wounds received in the line of his duty: Provided, That all moneys paid by virtue of this act shall be paid
out of the privateer pension fund and no other.]
Approved, April 16, 1818.
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