128
Proviso.
Proviso.
Benefit of theact of 7th June,1832, extendedto widows orchildren undercertain circum-stances.
Act of June 7,1832, ch. 126.
Extended towidows in othercases.
Act of June 7,1832, ch. 126.
Transfers ofany claim underthis act declaredvoid.
Secretary ofWar to adoptforms.
Statute I.July 4,1836.[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
entitled at the time of his death or receiving such wound, for and dur-ing the term of five years; and in case of the death or marriage of suchwidow before the expiration of said five years, the half pay lor the re-mainder of the time shall go to the said decedent: Provided, That thehalf pay aforesaid shall be half the monthly pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates of the infantry of theregular army, and no more : Provided, also, That no greater sum shallbe allowed to the widow or to the child or children of any officer, thanthe half pay of a lieutenant colonel.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any officer, non-commis-sioned officer, musician, soldier, Indian spy, mariner or marine, whoseservice during the revolutionary war was such as is specified in the actpassed the seventh day of June eighteen hundred and thirty-two, enti-tled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain survivingofficers and soldiers of the revolution,” have died since the fourth dayof March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and before the date of saidact, the amount of pension which would have accrued from the fourthday of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to the time of his death,and become payable to him by virtue of that act, if he had survived thepassage thereof, shall be paid to his widow ; and if he left no widow, tohis children, in the manner prescribed in the act hereby amended.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person who served inthe war of the revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed theseventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An actsupplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers andsoldiers of the revolution,” have died, leaving a widow whose marriagetook place before the expiration of the last period of his service, suchwidow shall be entitled to receive, during the time she may remain un-married, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to herhusband, by virtue of the act aforesaid, if living at the time it waspassed.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any pledge, mortgage, sale,assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any money orhalf pay granted by this act, shall be utterly void and of no effect; eachperson acting for and in behalf of any one entitled to money under thisact, shall take and subscribe an oath, to be administered by the properaccounting officer and retained by him and put on file, before a warrantshall be delivered to him, that he has no interest in said money by anypledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer, and that he does notknow or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any personwhatever.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shalladopt such forms of evidence, in applications under this act, as thePresident of the United States shall prescribe.
Approved, July 4, 1836.
Chap. CCCLXIII .—Jin Act making appropriations for the improvement ofcertain harbors therein mentioned, for the year one thousand eight hundred andthirty-six, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That for the security of thenavigation and commerce of the United States , the following sums ofmoney be, and the same are hereby directed to be paid out of anymoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed at thedisposition of the President, for the following objects, viz :
For erecting a breakwater on Stanford ledge, in Portland harbor,according to the plan reported by John Anderson, of the Engineercorps , in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, ten thousand dollars.