TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 190,191. 1842.
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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled “ An act toprovide for the more equitable administration of the navy pension fund,”approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, be, and thesame is hereby, repealed, from and after the first day of July, eighteenhundred and forty-two. And all pensions to officers and seamen in thenaval service shall be regulated according to the pay of the navy as itexisted on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred andthirty-five.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, en-titled “ An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed bycertain pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at theTreasury of the United States, ” approved April sixth, eighteen hundredand thirty-eight, as requires pensions that may have remained unclaim-ed in the hands of pension agents for eight months to be returned tothe Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that the timewithin which such pensions shall be returned to the Treasury, be, andthe same is hereby, extended to fourteen months, subject to all the otherrestrictions and provisions contained in the said act.
Approved, August 23, 1842.
Chap. CXC.— Jin Act for the relief of certain settlers in the Territory of Wis-consin.
lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That every settler inthe district of lands subject to sale at Mineral Point, in the Territoryof Wisconsin, who shall show, by proof which shall be satisfactory tothe register and receiver of the land office at Muscoday, that he, bycultivation and possession, as required by the pre-emption act of thenineteenth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, was entitled to aright of pre-emption; and that he, the said settler, was refused the privi-leges granted by said act, in consequence of the mineral character ofthe tract of land applied for by him, shall be permitted to enter, at therate of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, one complete quartersection of land, of any lands in said land district which have not yetbeen offered at public sale : Provided, That no tract shall be entered,by any settler claiming under this act, which contains mines or disco-veries of lead ore, or on which there may be an improvement, or onwhich any person may have a residence, or which may have been re-served from sale : And provided, further, That the claimant, under thisact, and his witnesses, shall make oath, before a person duly qualifiedto administer oaths, to all the facts stated by them.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act becarried into effect, in conformity with the instructions which may begiven by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the register and receiver ofthe land office at Muscoday.
Approved, August 23, 1842.
Ciiap. CXCI .—An Act to amend the acts of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the marriageof the widow, after the death of her husband, for whose services sheclaims a pension, under the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hundredand thirty-eight, shall be no bar to the claim of such widow to the benefitof that act, she being a widow at the time she makes application for apension.
Approved, August 23, 1842.
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Act of March3, 1837, ch. 38,repealed.
Pensions to beregulated ac-cording to thepay of the navyon the 1st ofJanuary 1835.
Act of April 6,1838, ch. 56,partially repeal-ed ; and thetime for un-claimed moneyto remain in thehands of theagents, extend-ed to 14 months.
Settlers at Mi-neral Point whohave been re-fused entry un-der the pre-emption act ofJune 19, 1834,allowed to enterone quarter sec-tion elsewhere.
Proviso.
Proviso, thatthe claimantshall make oathto the factsstated.
Instructions ofSec. Treasuryto be compliedwith..
Act of July 4,1836, ch. 362.
July 18, 1838,ch. 189.
Marriage of thewidow to be nobar to her pen-sion, if a widowat the time ofapplying.
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