Volume 4
Public Law 19–II
making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States.
Approved January 18, 1826
Statutory text
An Act
making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States.
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 they are hereby, respectively appropriated towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and for the objects following; that is to say:
For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States,
For pensions to revolutionary pensioners.
one million three hundred and fifty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.
For the invalid and half pay pensioners, in addition to an unexpended
For the invalid and half pay pensioners.
balance of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For pensions to the widows and orphans, twelve thousand dollars.
For pensions to the widows and orphans.
To be paid from the treasury.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the said sums, respectively, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .