Pension Laws OF The United States 1813-1823.

When I started these pages on the pension laws I had no idea what I was getting into, in the beginning I thought it may take up to four pages to get them all down, but now I see it may take as many as 17, pages. To help you find the pension laws you maybe looking for I will keep the titles of the pages the same but the years will change, so you will know what page to work off of.
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August 2, 1813

CHAP. XL.—.An .act to provide far the widows and orphans of militia slain, and
for militia disabled in, the service of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United of America in Congress assembled, That if any commissioned officer of the militia, or of any volunteer corps, shall while in the service of the United States die by reason of any wound received in actual service of the United States, and leave a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to receiye half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer: Provided always, That such half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private of the militia, or of any volunteer corps, shall be disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, while in the line of his duty, he shall upon substantiating his claim in the manner described by an act, entitled “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pension, and under such regulations as are provided by the said act, or as may hereafter be provided by law: Provided always, That the compensation to be allowed for such wounds or disabilities, to a commissioned officer shall not exceed for the highest rate of disability half the monthly pay of such officer at the time of his being wounded or disabled, and that no officer shall receive more than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel; and that the rate of compensation to noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, shall not exceed five dollars per month: And provided also, That all inferior disabilities shall entitle the persons so disabled, to receive an allowance proportionate to the highest disability.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall be construed to have effect from and after the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sixth section of an act, entitled “An act authorizing the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps,” passed the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be and the same is hereby repealed.
APPROVED, August 2, 1813.
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August 2, 1813

CHAP. LVIII.—An .act to amend and explain the act regulating pensions to persons on board private armed ships.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act regulating pensions to persons on board private armed ships shall be construed to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to place on the pension list under the restrictions and regulations of the said act any officer, seaman, or marine belonging to any private armed ship or vessel of the United States, bearing a commission of letter of marque, who shall have been wounded or otherwise disabled in the line of their duty as officers, seamen, or marines of such private armed ship or vessel.
APPROVED, August 2, 1813.
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March 4, 1814

CRAP. XX.—An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain
in the public or private armed vessels of the United States.(a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any officer, seaman or marine serving on board of any private armed ship or vessel a commission of letter of marque, shall die, or shall have died since the eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by reason of a wound received in the line of his duty, leaving a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if rio widow, such child or children shall be placed on the pension list by the Secretary of the Navy, who shall allow to such widow, child or children, half the monthly pension to which the rank of the deceased would have entitled him for the highest rate of disability, under “ An act regulating pensions to persons on board private armed ships ;“ which allowance shall continue for the term of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of the term of five years, the half-pay for the remainder of the term shall go to the child or children of the deceased: Provided, That the half-pay shall cease on the death of such child or children. And the several pensions hereby directed shall be paid by direction of the Secretary of the Navy out of the fund provided by the seventeenth section of an act, entitled “An act concerning letters of marque, prizes and prize goods,” and from no other.

Sac. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any seaman or marine belonging to the navy of the United States shall die, or if any officer, seaman or marine belonging to the navy of the United States, shall have died, since the eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by reason of a wound received in the line of his duty, leaving a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, which allowance shall continue for the term of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half-pay for the remainder of the term shall go to the child or children of the deceased: Provided, That such half-pay shall cease on the death of such child or children. And the money required for this purpose shall be paid out of the navy pension fund under the direction of the commissioners of that fund.
APPROVED, March 4, 1814.
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April 18, 1814

CHAP. LXV.—An act granting pensions to the officers and seamen serving on
board the revenue cutters in certain cases.

Be it enacted by tire Senate and house of Representatives of tire United States of America en Congress assembled, That the officers and seamen of the revenue cutters of the United States, who have been or may be wounded or disabled in the discharge of their duty whilst co-operating the navy by order of the President of the United States, shall be entitled to be placed on the navy pension list, at the same rate of pension, and under the same regulations and restrictions as are now provided by law for the officers and seamen of the navy.
APPROVED, April 18, 1814.
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April 24, 1816

CHAP. LXVIII.—An act to increase the pensions of invalids in certain eases; for
the relief of invalids of the militia; and for the appointment of pension agents in those states where there is no commissioner of loans. (a).

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all persons, of the ranks hereinafter named, who are now on the military pension roll of the United States, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be entitled to, and receive, for disabilities of the highest degree, the following sums, in lieu of those to which they are now entitled, to wit: a first lieutenant, seventeen dollars; a second lieutenant, fifteen dollars; a third lieutenant, fourteen dollars; an ensign, thirteen dollars; and a non-commissioned officer, musician or private, eight dollars per month; and for disabilities of a degree less than the highest, a sum proportionably less.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons of the aforesaid ranks, who may hereafter be placed on the military pension roll of the United States, shall, according to their ranks and degrees of disabilities, be placed on at the aforesaid rates of pensions in lieu of those heretofore established: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to lessen the pension of any person who, by special provision, is entitled a higher pension than is herein provided.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and regulations relating to the admission of the officers and soldiers of the regular army to be placed on the pension roll of the United States shall, and they are hereby declared to relate equally to the officers and soldiers of the militia, whilst in the service of the United States.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary for the department of War be, and he is hereby authorized and required to appoint fit and proper person in those states and territories where there is no commissioner of loans, and also in the district of Maine, to perform the duties in those states and territories, and in said district respectively, relating to pensions and pensioners, which are now required of said commissioners in their respective states.
Approved, April 24, 1816.
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March 3, 1817

CHAP. LX.—An .Act to amend and explain an “.&t giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in 1/se public or private armed vessels of the United States.”

Be it enacted by tire Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any officer, seaman, or marine, belonging to the navy of the United States, shall die, or shall have died, since the eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, in consequence of disease contracted, or of casualties or injuries received, while in the line of his duty, and which shall be satisfactorily proved to the commissioners of the navy pension fund, leaving a widow, or if no widow, a child or children, under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, which allowance shall continue for the term of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of the deceased : Provided, That such half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children. And the money required for this purpose shall be paid out of the navy pension fund, under the direction of the commissioners of that fund.
APPROVED, March 3, 1817.
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March 3, 1817

CHAP. CVIL—.An Act to amend an act, entitled “.An act making further provisions for military services during the late war, and for other purposes.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the widows anti children of soldiers, of the militia, the volunteers, the rangers, and the sea-fencibles, who served during the late war, and for whom half pay for five years was provided, by an act passed the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes,” shall he placed on ‘an equality as to their annual allowance, that is to say: Such widows, and in case of no widow, such children as may be embraced in the before recited act, shall be entitled to receive, (as the half pay to which they are entitled,) at the rate of forty-eight dollars per annum, and no more; and the widows and children, aforesaid, of the officers of the different corps, aforesaid, shall be entitled to the half pay of the officers of the infantry.

Sac. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions contained in an act, entitled “An act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States,” passed on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, granting to the commissioned officers of the regular army, who were deranged by said act, three months’ pay in addition to the pay and emoluments to which they were entitled by law at the time of their discharge, shall equally extend to wagon-masters, forage-masters, barrack- masters, and other warrant officers of the staff of the regular army, who were deranged by the before recited act, except those provisionally retained by the President of the United States.

SEC. 3. And be ii further enacted, That the further time of two years shall be allowed to the guardians of the minor children of deceased soldiers, to relinquish their claims to bounty lands for five years’ half pay, according to the second section of the before recited act, to which this a supplement, passed the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the widows and children of the non-commissioned officers of the rangers, shall be placed on the same as to half pay, for five years with the widows and children of the infantry.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the second section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be, and the same are hereby, extended to all cases where either of the children therein mentioned shall have been under sixteen years of age at the time of the father’s decease: Provided, The guardian of such minor children shall, in addition to the relinquishment by said act required, file, in the office of the Department of War, evidence of the assent of all the other heirs, if any there be, of said deceased soldier, or of their guardians, to such elinquishment.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where the child or children of a regular soldier, deceased, have the right, under the laws of the United States, to relinquish their bounty in land, for five years’ pay, the said child or children shall be entitled to the swine amount as is given by the act to the widows of the militia soldiers who died in service during the late war, viz: four dollars per month.
APPROVED, March 3, 1517.
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March 18, 1818

CHAP. XIX.—.An .Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That every commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, and private soldier, and all officers in the hospital department and medical staff, who served in the war cf the revolution until the end thereof, or for the term of nine months, or longer, at any period of the war, on the continental establishment; and every commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, manncr, or marine, who served at the same time, and for a like term, in the naval service of the United States, who is yet a resident citizen of the United States, and who is, or hereafter, by reason of has reduced circumstances in life, shall be, in need of assistance from his country for support, and shall have substantiated his claim to a pension in the manner hereinafter directed, shall receive a pension from the United States : if an officer, of twenty dollars per month during life; if a non-commissioned officer, musician, mariner, marine, or private soldier, of eight dollars per month during life: Provided, No person shall he entitled to the provisions of this act, until he shall have relinquished his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That to entitle any person to the provisions of this act, he shall make a declaration, under oath or affirmation, before the district judge of the United States of the district, or before any judge or court of record of the county, state, or territory, in which the applicant shall reside, setting forth, if he belonged to the army, the company, regiment, and line, to which he belonged: the time he entered the service, and the time and manner of leaving the service; and in case he belonged to the navy, a lake declaration, setting forth the name of the vessel, and particular service in which he was employed, and the time and manner of leaving the service, and shall offer such other evidence as may be in his power; and, on its appearing, to the satisfaction of the said judge, that the applicant served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid against the common enemy, he shall certify and transmit Testimony, the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War, whose duty it shall be, if satisfied the applicant comes under the provisions of this act, to place such officer,
musician, mariner, marine, or soldier, on the pension list of the United States, to be paid in the same manner as pensions to invalids who have been placed on the pension list are now paid, and under such restrictions and regulations, in all respects, as are prescribed by law.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every pension by virtue of this act shall commence on the day that the declaration under oath or affirmation, prescribed in the foregoing section, shall be made.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, no sale, transfer, or mortgage, of the whole, or any part, of the pension payable in pursuance of this act, shall be valid; and any person who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be thereof conshall suffer as for willful and corrupt perjury.
APPROVED, March 18, 1818.
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April 16, 1818.

CHAP. LXV.—.An .Act in addition to “An act giving pension to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in every case where a person has been put on the pension list, or granted a certificate of pension, by virtue of the first section of ala act, passed the fourth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States,” the Secretary of the Navy b and he is hereby, authorized, at the expiration of the term of five years, for which any pension certificate shall have been granted as aforesaid, to allow the full monthly pension to which the rank of the deceased would have entitled him for the highest rate of disability, and that such pension shall continue to such person for the further term of five years: Provided, That such pension shall cease on the death of suds widow, child, or children.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any officer, seamen or marine, shall have died since the eighteenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, in consequence of an accident or casualty, which occurred while in the line of his duty on board a private armed vessel, leaving a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to place such widow, child, or children, on the pension list, and allow to such widow, child, or children, the same monthly pension as if the deceased had died by reason of wounds received in the line of his duty: Provided, That all moneys paid by virtue of this act shall be paid out of the privateer pension fund, and no other.
APPROVED, April 16, 1818.
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March 3, 1819

CHAP. LX.—.An act extending the term of half-pay pensions to the widows and children of certain officers, seamen, and marines, who died in the public service.

Be it enacted by 1/ic Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, That in all cases where provision has been made by law for five years, half pay to the widows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, who were killed in battle, or died of wounds received in battle, or who died in the naval service of the United States, during tile late war, the said provision shall be continued for the additional term of five years, to commence at the end of the first term of five years, in each case, respectively, making the provision equal to ten years half pay; which shall be paid iii the manner, and out of the fund, heretofore designated by law; and the said pensions shall also cease for the reasons mentioned in the said law.
Approved, March 3, 1819.
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March 3, 1819

CHAP. LXXXI.. An .act regulating tire payments to invalid pensioners.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in all cases of application for the payment of pensions to invalids, under the several laws of Congress granting pensions to invalids, the affidavit of two surgeons or physicians, whose credibility, as such, shall be certified by the magistrate before whom the affidavit is made, stating the continuance of the disability continuance for which the pension was originally granted, (describing it,) and the rate of such disability at the time of making the affidavit, shall accompany ability, the application of the first payment which shall fall due after the fourth day of March next, and at the end of every two years thereafter; and if, in a case of a continued disability, it shall be stated at a rate below that for which the pension was originally granted, the applicant shall only be paid at the rate stated in the affidavit: Provided, That where the pension davit shall have been originally granted for a total disability, in consequence of the loss of a limb, or other cause which cannot, either in whole or in part, be removed, the above affidavit shall not be necessary to entitle tile applicant to payment: And provided, also, That this act shall not extend to the invalids of the revolution, who have been, or shall be, placed on the pension list, pursuant to an act of Congress, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United Slates in the revolutionary war,’ approved the eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight. [eighteen.]
APPROVED, March 3, 1819.
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March 3, 1819

CHAP. XCIV,—.-An .Act concerning the allowance of pensions upon a relinquishment of bounty land.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, That the second section of the act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes, approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and so much of the act to amend the same, approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as relates to the subject of that section, shall be continued in force for the term of three years from and after the passing of this act: Provided, nevertheless, That no pension shall be granted under the said acts, after the sixteenth day of April next, unless, at the time of relinquishing the bounty land, in the manner therein described, the children, for whose benefit the same may be granted, or one of them, shall be under sixteen years of age: And provided also, That the pensions shall commence at the date of the relinquishments respectively.
Approved,, March 3, 1819.
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May 1, 1820

CHAP. LIII.—An act in addition to an act, entitled “An act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That no person who now is, or hereafter may be, placed on the pension list of the United States, by virtue of the act, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, shall, after the payment of that part of the pension which became due on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, continue to receive the pension granted by the said act, until he shall have exhibited to some court of record, in the county, city, or borough, in which he resides, a schedule, subscribed by him, containing his whole estate and income, (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted) and shall have (before the said court, or some one of the judges thereof,) taken and subscribed, produced to the said court, the following oath or affirmation, to wit: I, A. B. do solemnly swear or affirm, (as the case may be) that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed: Nor until such person shall have delivered, or caused to be delivered, to the Secretary of War, a copy of the aforesaid schedule and oath or affirmation, certified by the clerk of the court to which the said schedule was delivered, together the opinion of the said court, also certified by their clerk, of the value of the property contained in the said schedule: Provided, That in every case, in which the pensioner may be insane, or incapable of taking an oath, the court may receive the said schedule, without the aforesaid oath or affirmation, from the committee, or other person authorized to take care of such person.

2. And be it further enacted, That the original schedule and oath or affirmation shall be filed in the clerk’s office, of the court which the schedule and oath or affirmation aforesaid shall be exhibited: And any person who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be thereof convicted, shall suffer as for willful and corrupt perjury.

Sac. 3. And be it further enacted, That on the receipt of the copy of the schedule and oath, or affirmation aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the War Department to cause to be struck from the list of pensioners under the said act, the name of such person, in case the said person shall not, in his opinion, be in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country: Provided, That every person, who shall have been placed on the pension list in consequence of disability, from known wounds received in the revolutionary war, and who shall have relinquished such pension in order to avail themselves of the benefit of the provisions of the act, to which this is an amendment, who, by virtue, of this section, may be stricken from the pension list, shall be forthwith restored to the pension so relinquished.
Approved, May 1, 1820.
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May 15, 1820

CHAP. CIX.—.An .act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled “.An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ‘of America, in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” passed on the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, and limited, as in said act declared, to the term of years, and afterwards revived and continued in force by an act, entitled “An [act) to revive and continue in force ‘An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,’ and for other purposes,” for and during the term of six years, as in the said act is declared, shall be, and the same is hereby, revived, and is continued in force for one year, and no longer, from the passing of this act: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to repeal or make void the fourth section of an act, entitled “An act concerning invalid pensions,” passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; but the said fourth section of the said last mentioned act shall be, and hereby is declared to be, in full force and effect, any thing in the said act hereby revived and made perpetual to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the right any person now has, or may hereafter acquire, to receive a pension in virtue of any law of the United States, be considered to commence at the time of completing his testimony, pursuant to the act hereby revived and continued in force.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the agents for the payment of invalid pensioners of the United States shall, in future, be required to give bond, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the Secretary for the Department of War, in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of the duties confided to them, respectively.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
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February 4, 1822

CHAP. VI.—.An ,act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” passed on the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, and limited, as in said act declared, to the term of six years, and afterwards revived and continued in force, for and during the term of six years, by an act, entitled “An act, to revive and continue in force ‘An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,’ and for other purposes,” passed on the twenty-fifth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and afterwards revived and continued in force for the term of one year, by an act, entitled “An act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” passed on the fifteenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall be, and the said act is hereby, revived and continued in full force and effect, for and during the term of six years from and after the passing of this act, and from thence unto the end of the next session of Congress: Provided, That any evidence which has been taken to support any claim of any person disabled in the revolutionary war, under the authority of the act of the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, reviving and continuing in force, for one year, “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” shall be received and acted upon by the Secretary of War, in the same manner as if said act was still in force and had not expired: And provided also, That this act, and any thing contained in the act hereby revived and continued in force, shall not be construed to repeal or make void the fourth section of an act, entitled “An act concerning invalid pensions,” passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and the said fourth section of the said last-mentioned act shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, and to continue to be, in full force and effect; any thing in the said act hereby revived and continued in force to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sac. 2. And be it further enacted, That the right any person now has, or hereafter may acquire, to receive a pension in virtue of any law of the United States, shall be construed to commence at the time of completing his testimony pursuant to the act hereby revived and continued in force.

Sac. 3. And be it further enacted, That the agents for the payment of pensions to invalid pensioners of the United States, shall, in future, be required to give bonds, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the Secretary of the Department of War, in such penalty as he shall direct, for the faithful discharge of the duties confided to them respectively. APPROVED, February 4, 1822.
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March 1, 1823

CHAP. LIX.—.An .act supplementary to the acts to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service f the United States in the revolutionary war.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to restore to the list of pension era the name of any person who may have been, or hereafter shall be stricken there from, in pursuance of the act of Congress, passed the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled” An act in addition to an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,’” passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, if such person, so stricken from the list of pensioners, has heretofore furnished, or hereafter shall furnish, evidence, in pursuance of the provisions of said act, to satisfy the Secretary of War that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country, and that he has not disposed of or transferred his property, or any portion thereof, with a view to obtain a pension.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when any person, coming within the provisions of the acts to which this is supplementary, shall, by reason of bodily infirmity, be unable to attend in court to snake his schedule, and furnish the evidence by said acts required, it shall be lawfuI for any judge or justice of a court of record in the district, city, county, or borough, in which such person resides, to attend at his place of abode and receive his schedule, and oath or affirmation, and said judge or justice shall certify that said applicant was, from bodily infirmity, unable to attend such court; which schedule, and oath or affirmation, and certificate, shall, by said judge or justice, be produced in the court of which he is judge; and the opinion of said court, of the value of the property contained in said schedule, shall be entered thereon, and certified by the clerk of said court; and such schedule shall be valid for all the purposes contemplated by the acts aforesaid.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no pension hereafter to be allowed on claims or schedules heretofore filed under the act or acts to which this act is a supplement, or under the provisions of this act, shall commence before the passage thereof; and all other pensions hereafter to be allowed under the acts aforesaid, shall commence from the time of completing the proof.
APPROVED, March 1, 1823.