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TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 6,7. 1841.
This law toexpire in oneyear.Proviso.
Appropria-
tions.
Revolutionary
pensioners.
1818, ch. 19.
Invalid pen-sions.
Widows andorphans.
1836, ch. 3G2.
Five years’pensions towidows.
1838, ch. 189.
Hall-pay pen-sions.
Arrearages.
Removal, &c.of Seminoles.
No arms to bedelivered tothem until, &c.
of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty, except that this lawshall expire in one year from and after its passage : Provided, That incase the Treasury notes outstanding and unredeemed, issued underformer laws of Congress , added to the amount of such notes issued underthis act, and actually expended or issued to meet payments due andpayable before the fourth day of March next, shall, on the fourth dayof March next, exceed the sum of five millions of dollars, then the Pre-sident of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized toissue, by virtue of the provisions of this act, such further amount of thesaid notes as will make the whole amount issued under this act, andapplicable to payments falling due after the third day of March next,the full sum of five millions of dollars.
Approved, February 15, 1841.
Chap. VI.— An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and
other pensioners of the United States , for the year eighteen hundred and forty-
one, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of th: UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, appropriated, in addition to former appropria-tions, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-priated, for the pensioners of the United States , for the year one thou-sand eight hundred and forty-one :
For the revolutionary pensioners under the act of the eighteenth ofMarch, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, three hundred andfourteen thousand dollars;
For payment of invalid pensions, one hundred and seven thousanddollars;
For pensions to widows and orphans under the act of the fourth ofJuly, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, four hundred and forty-eight thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars;
For five years’ pensions to widows under the act of the seventh ofJuly one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, one hundred andsixty-eight thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars;
For half-pay pensions, payable through the offices of the Second andThird Auditors, five thousand dollars;
For arrearages, payable through the Second Auditor’s office, six hun-dred dollars;
For arrearages, payable through the Third Auditor’s office, one thou-sand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one hundred thousand dol-lars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be expended under thedirection of the Secretary of War, for the removal, subsistence, andbenefit of such of the Seminole Indian chiefs and warriors as may sur-render for emigration.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no rifles, or arms of anykind, shall be delivered to said Indians until they reach the westernboundary of the State of Arkansas .
Approved, February 18, 1841.
Chap. VII.— An Ad to amend an ad entitled “ An act to authorize the State ofTennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, andto settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same,"passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Tennes-see be, and hereby is, constituted the agent of the Government of the