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Half-pay towidows andchildren of offi-cers, seamen,and marines, tocommence fromthe time ofdeatli of suchofficer, &c.
Pensions forwounds, &c. tocommence fromthe time of theofficer, &.C.,being disabled.
Acts repealed.
Three com-missioners to beappointed bythe President,with the adviceand consent ofthe Senate ;their duties.
Commission-ers to take anoath, &c.
Ci-iap. XXXVIII .—Jin Act for the more equitable administration of the NavyPension Fund. ”(a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That if any officer,seaman or marine have died, or may hereafter die, in the naval service,leaving a widow, and, if no widow, a child or children, such widow,and, if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receivehalf the monthly pay to which the deceased would have been entitled,under the acts regulating the pay of the navy, in force on the first dayof January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, to commencefrom the time of the death of such officer, seaman, or marine; but incase of the death or intermarriage of such widow, the half-pay shall goto the child or children of such deceased officer, seaman, or marine,Provided, That the half-pay granted to the child or children shall ceaseon their death, or on their attaining the age of twenty-one years.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pensions which may havebeen granted, or which may hereafter be granted, to officers, seamen,and marines, in the naval service, disabled by wounds or injuries re-ceived while in the line of their duty, shall be considered to commencefrom the time of their being so disabled, and that the amount of pen-sion to which said officers, seamen, and marines, may be entitled, shallbe regulated according to the pay of the navy as it existed on the firstday of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That ail acts, and parts of acts,which may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and thesame are hereby repealed, so far as they may relate hereto.
Approved, March 3,1837.
Chap. XXXIX. — An Act for the appointment of commissioners to adjust the claims
to reservations of land under the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hun-dred and thirty with the Choctaw Indians.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointedby the President, by and with tile advice and consent of the Senate ,three commissioners whose duty it shall be to meet in the State of Mis-sissippi at such time and place, as the President shall appoint anddesignate, and there proceed to ascertain the name of every ChoctawIndian who was the head of an Indian family at the date of the treatyat Dancing Rabbit Creek, who lias not already obtained a reservationunder said treaty, and who can show by satisfactory evidence, that heor she complied or offered to comply with all the requisites of the four-teenth article of said treaty, to entitle him or her, to a reservation undersaid article; and also the number and names of all the unmarried chil-dren of such heads of families, who formed a part of the family andwere over ten years of age, and likewise the number and names of thechildren of such heads of families as were under ten years of age, andreport to the President, to be, by him, laid before Congress , all thenames of such Indians, and the different sections of land to which suchheads of families were respectively entitled, together with the opinionsof the commissioners, and whether any part of said lands have beensold by the Government, and the proofs applicable to each case.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That before entering upon theirduties, each of said commissioners shall, before some judge or justiceof the peace, take an oath faithfully to discharge the duties imposed bythis act.