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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch.8,9. 1841.
Punishmenttor said offence,&c.
Act of June23, 1836, ch.115, excepting13th and 14thsecs , repealed.
So much of actof 14th April1836, ch. 52, asprohibits thepayment by theU. S, of banknotes under cer-tain denomina-tions, repealed.
Statute I.Aug. 16,1841.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.
Proviso; pen-sions under act3d March 1837,ch. 38, limited.
No widow,&c.of any naval of-ficer, &c. whomay hereafterdie, entitled,under the act of1837, ch. 38.
No officer,&c.shall receivepay as a pen-sioner and offi-cer in service.
Statute I.Aug. 19,1841.
Repealed, 3dMarch 1843, ch.82.
United States , and all persons advising, or knowingly and willingly par-ticipating in such embezzlement, upon being convicted thereof beforeany court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, shall, for everysuch offence, forfeit and pay to the United States a fine equal to theamount of the money embezzled, and shall suffer imprisonment for aterm not less than six months nor more than five years.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled “An act toregulate the deposits of the public money,” approved on the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, excepting the thir-teenth and fourteenth sections thereof, be and the same hereby is re-pealed.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, passedthe fourteenth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “ Anact making appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary andother pensioners of the United States , for the year eighteen hundredand thirty-six,” as provides that no bank note of less denomination thanten dollars, and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred andthirty-seven, no bank note of less denomination than twenty dollars,shall be offered in payment in any case whatsoever, in which money isto be paid by the United States , or the Post Office Department, be, andthe same hereby is, repealed.
Approved, August 13, 1841.
Chap. VIII .—An Act to provide for the payment of Navy Pensions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of onehundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars andsix cents is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in theTreasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions andhalf-pay chargeable on the navy pension fund : Provided, That all wi-dows or children of all naval officers, seamen, or marines, now deceas-ed, and entitled to receive or make proof of their pensions under theact of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall re-ceive the same until the close of the next session of Congress ; but nowidows or children of any naval officer, seaman, or marine, who mayhereafter die, shall be entitled to any pension by virtue only of any pro-vision in the said act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no officer, seaman, or ma-rine, entitled to a pension from the navy pension fund, who receives payfrom the public treasury, shall receive more from the said fund than issufficient to make the whole amount received from both the above-named sources equal to the pay fixed by law for the grade to which theofficer, seaman, or marine may belong as an officer in the services inwhich he may be engaged, during the year, so that no officer shall re-ceive pay at the same time both as a pensioner and an officer in service.
Approved, August 16, 1841.
Chap. IX. — An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and herebyis, established throughout the United States , a uniform system of bank-
fa) See notes of the decisions of the courts of the United States on the bankrupt act of April 4, 1800,vol. 2, 19.
In the case of Nelson, a petitioner in bankruptcy, in the Kentucky district, and Carland, an opposingcreditor, several points were adjourned by the district to the circuit court. Upon the hearing of the casein the circuit court, the district judge, as well as the justice of the Supreme Court , sat in the case ; and,