TWENTY‑SECOND
Congress, Session I, Chapter 151, Vol. 4.
An Act further to extend the pension [sic]
heretofore granted to the widows of persons killed, or who died in the naval
service.
Sec. 1. Be it
enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That in all cases, where provision has been
made by law, for the five years' half pay to widows and children of officers,
seamen, and marines, who were killed in battle, or who died in the naval
service of the United States; and, also, in all cases where provision has been
made for extending the term for five years, in addition to any term of five
years, the said provision shall be, and is hereby, further extended for an
additional term of five years, so far as respects widows only, to commence at
the end of the current or last expired term of five years in each case,
respectively; which pension shall be paid out of the fund heretofore provided
by law. And the pension herein continued
shall cease for the causes mentioned in the laws granting the same,
respectively.
Sec. 2. And be
it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall be extended to
the widows of all those who may have died by reason of wounds received during
the war.
Approved, June 28, 1832.
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