The Pension Laws Of The United States-1824-1845

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April 9, 1824

CHAP. XXXIV.—.An act extending the term of pensions granted to persons disabled and to the widows and orphans of those who hare been skein, or who have died, in consequence of wounds or casualties, received while in t)u line of their duty, on board the private armed h(ps of the United States, during the late war.(a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, the pensions of all persons, who now are in the receipt thereof, under the provisions of the following laws of the United States, or either of them, to wit: an act passed March fourth, one thousand eight 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 ;“ and an act passed April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act in addition to an act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States:” so far as regards persons receiving pensions from the fund arising from captures and salvage, made by the private armed vessels of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, continued, under the restrictions and regulations in the said acts contained, for and during the additional term of live years, from and after the period of the expiration Proviso. of the said pensions, respectively: Provided, however, That the said pensions shall alone be paid from the proceeds of the privateer pension fund so called, and without recourse to the United States for any deficiency (should such occur,) which may hereafter arise thereon: And provide, further, That no pension shall be paid to any such widow after her intermarriage, nor to any orphan children of such officer, seamen, or marines, after they shall have attained the age of sixteen years.
APPROVED, April 9, 1824.
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May 26, 1824

CHAP. CLXXXVII.—An .act explanatory of an act, entitled “for the relief of the officers, volunteers, and other persons, engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians, passed the fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department be, and he is hereby, directed to give such construction to the act of the fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, as that its provisions shall extend to the claims of the volunteer, field, and staff officers, engaged in the campaign of eighteen hundred and eighteen, against the Seminole Indians, who lost horses or the necessary equipage thereof, in the manner mentioned in said act; and, also, to the claims of all the volunteer officers or soldiers engaged in the campaign aforesaid, who, without any fault or negligence on their part, respectively, lost horses, or the necessary equipage thereof, in battle.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claims of all owners of wagons and teams, and others, for any horse or horses, impressed into the public service during the said Seminole campaign: Provided, That such impressment, and the value of said horse, or horses, be satisfactorily proved, and that it shall, also, be satisfactorily proved that such horse or horses were not returned to their owners, and that any compensation which may have been allowed and paid for the service of said horse or horses, after the time of their impressment, he deducted.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the amount of such claims, so audited and settled, when ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
APPROVED, May 26, 1824.
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May 26, 1824

CHAP. CXC.—.An act to revive and extend the term of certain pensions which
have expired by limitation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the pensions hereto granted, and paid out of the privateer pension fund, to the widows and orphans of such officers, seamen, and marines, as were slain, or died in consequence of wounds or casualties received while in the line of their duty, on board the private armed ships of the United States, and the terms for the payment of which had expired by limitation, before the ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, he, and the same are hereby, revived, and extended to such widows and orphans, with all the advantages, and in the same manner, as if their respective terms had not expired; subject to the provisions, restrictions, and limitations, of an act, passed the ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act extending the term of pensions granted to persons disabled, and to the widows and orphans of those who have been slain, or who have died in consequence of wounds, or casualties, received while in the line of their duty, on board the private armed ships of the United States, during the late war.”
APPROVED, May 26, 1824.
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December 23, 1825

CHAP. I.—.An .act making appropriation for compensation to the members and
officers, and for the contingent expenses, of the to Houses of Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of four hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for compensation to the Senators and members of the House of Representatives, and delegates of territories, their officers and attendants; and the further sum of eighty thousand dollars, for fuel, stationery, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, and that the said sums be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
APPROVED, December 23, 1825.
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May 15, 1828

CHAP. LIII,—.An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of
the army of the revolution.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That each of the surviving officers of the army of the Revolution in the continental line, who was entitled to half pay by the resolve of October twenty-first, seventeen hundred and eighty, be authorized to receive, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his full pay in said line, according to his rank in the line, to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life: Provided, That, under this act, no officer shall be entitled to receive a larger sum than the full pay of a captain in said line.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any of said officers received money of the United States, as a pensioner, since the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, afore said, the sum so received shall be deducted from what said officer would otherwise be entitled to, under the first section of this act; and every pension to which said officer is now entitled shall cease after the passage of this act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every surviving non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, in said army, who enlisted therein for and during the war, and continued in service until its termination, and thereby became entitled to receive a reward of eighty dollars, under a resolved of Congress, passed May fifteenth, seventeen hundred and seventy eight, shall be entitled to receive his full monthly pay in said service, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life: Provided: That no non-commissioned officer, musician or private in said army, who is now on the pension list of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the pay allowed by this act, shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be paid to the officer or soldier entitled thereto, or to their authorized attorney, at such places and days as said secretary may direct; and that no foreign officer shall be entitled to said pay, nor shall any officer or soldier receive the same, until he furnish to said secretary satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to the same in conformity to the provisions of this act; and the pay allowed by this act shall not, in any way, be transferable or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, but shall inure wholly to the personal benefit of the officer or soldier entitled to the same by this act.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of said pay, as accrued by the provisions of this act, before the third day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, shall be paid to the officers and soldiers entities tied to the same, as soon as may be, in the manner and under the provisions before mentioned; and the pay which shall accrue after said day, shall be paid semi-annually, in like manner, and under the same provisions.
APPROVED, May 15, 1828.
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May 24, 1828

CHAP. CIX.—An act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled “ 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 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, and further revived and continued in force for the term of six years, 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 fourth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, 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 he 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.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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 lie shall direct for the faithful discharge of the duties confided to them respectively.
Approved, May 24, 1828,
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March 2, 1829

CHAP. XXVIII.—.An .act making provision for the payment of pensions to the
widow or children of pensioners, in certain cases, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in case of the death of any invalid pensioner, before the certificate of the continuance of his disability, required by the act, entitled “An act regulating the payments to invalid pensioners,” passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, was obtained, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of War, and he is hereby directed, to pay to the legal representatives of such deceased invalid, the arrears of pensions due at the time of his death, at the rate at which it was fixed at his last examination: Provided, Such last examination was within two years from the time of his death.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any revolutionary pensioner shall die, the Secretary of War shall cause to be paid the arrears of pension due to the said pensioner at the time of his death; and all payments, under this act, shall be made to the widow of the deceased pensioner, or to her attorney, or if he left no widow, or she be dead, to the children of the pensioner, or to their guardian, or his attorney; and if no child or children, then to the legal representatives of the deceased.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of applications for pensions, for wounds received in the revolutionary war, the testimony to establish the facts may be authenticated in the same manner with those who apply for pensions for wounds received in the late war with Great Britain.
APPROVED, March 2, 1829.
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May 31, 1830

CHAP. CCXXVIII.—An .act to amend the act, entitled “.An act for the relief of
certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution.”

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, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” approved the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners, and that the pension of invalid soldiers, shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act.
APPROVED, May 31, 1830.
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June 7, 1832

CHAP. CXXVI.—.An act supplementary to the “ Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of lice United States of America in Congress assembled, That each of the surviving officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, soldiers and Indian spies, who shall have served in the continental line, or state troops, volunteers or militia, at one or more terms, a period of two years, during the war of the revolution, and who are not entitled to any benefit under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, passed the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, be authorized to receive, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his full pay in the said line, according to his rank, but not exceeding, in any case, the pay of a captain in the said line; such pay to commence from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and shall continue during his natural life; and that any such officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, as aforesaid, who shall have served in the continental line, state troops, volunteers or militia, a term or terms in the whole less than the above period, but not less than six months, shall be authorized to receive out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, during his natural life, each according to his term of service, an amount bearing such proportion to the annuity granted to the same rank for the service of two years, as his term of service did to the term aforesaid; to commence from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person, receiving any annuity or pension under any law of the United States providing for revolutionary officers and soldiers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, unless he shall first relinquish his further claim to such pension; and in all payments under this act, the amount which may have been received under any other act as aforesaid, since the date at which the payments under this act shall commence, shall first be deducted from such payment.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the pay allowed by this act shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be paid to the officer, non-commissioned officer, musician or private, entitled thereto, or his or their authorized attorney, at such places and times as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, and that no foreign officer shall be entitled to said pay, nor shall any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician or private, receive the same until he furnish the said Secretary satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to the same, in conformity to the provisions of this act; and the pay hereby allowed shall not be in any way transferable or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, but shall inure wholly to the personal benefit of the officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or soldier, entitled to the same.

SEC. 4. And he it further enacted, That so much of the said pay as accrued before the approval of this act, shall be paid to the person entitled to the same as soon as may be, in the manner and under the provisions above mentioned; and the pay which shall accrue thereafter shall be paid semi-annually, in the manner above directed; and, in ease of the death of any person embraced by the provisions of this act, or of the act to which it is supplementary, during the period intervening between the semi-annual payments directed to be made by said acts, the proportionate amount of pay which shall accrue between the last preceding semi-annual payment, and the death of such person, shall be paid to his widow, or, if he leave no widow, to his children.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the officers, non-commissioned officers, mariners, or marines, who served for a like term in the naval service during the revolutionary war, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, in the same manner as is provided for the officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution.
APPROVED, June 7, 1832.
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June 28, 1832

CHAP. CLI.—An .act further to extend the pension heretofore granted to the widows of persons killed or who died in the naval service.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in all cases where pro, vision has been made by law, for the five years’ half-pay to widows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, who were killed in battle, or who died in the naval service of the United States; and, also, in all cases where provision has been made for extending the term for five years, in addition to any term of five years, the said provision shall be, and is hereby, further extended for an additional term of five years, so far as respects widows only, to commence at the end of the current or last expired term of five years in each case, respectively; which pension shall be paid out of the fund heretofore provided by law. And the pension herein continued shall cease for the causes mentioned in the laws granting the same, respectively.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall be extended to the widows of all those who may have died by reason of wounds received during the war.
APPROVED, June 28, 1832.
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April 14, 1836

CHAP. LII.—.An .act snaking appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary
and oilier pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; For the revolutionary pensioners under the several acts, other than those of the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, the seventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the fifth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in addition to an unexpended balance of three hundred and thirty-five thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy cents, the sum of three hundred and forty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty- nine dollars. For the invalid pensioners, under various laws, in addition to an unexpended balance of two hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-seven cents, one hundred and five thousand, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. For pensions to widows and orphans, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, in addition to the unexpended balance of two thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-two cents, two thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That hereafter, no bank note of less denomination than ten dollars, and that from and after the third day of March, an no Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, no bank note of less denomination than twenty dollars shall he offered in payment in any ease whatsoever in which money is to be paid by the United States or the Post Office Department, nor shall any bank note, of any denomination, be so offered, unless the same shall be payable, and paid on demand, in gold or silver coin, at the place where issued, and which shall not be equivalent to specie at the place where offered, and convertible into gold or silver upon the pot, at the will of the holder, and with- out delay or loss to him; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to make any thing but gold or silver a legal tender by any individual, or by the United States.
APPROVED, April 14, 1836.
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April 20, 1836

Chap. LVI.—.,An act to prescribe the mode of paying pensions heretofore granted by the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all laws and parts of laws, authorizing or requiring the Bank of the United States, or its branches to pay any pensions granted under the authority of the United States, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and such payments shall be hereafter made, at such times and places, by such persons or corporations, and under such regulations, as the Secretary of War may direct; but no compensation or allowance shall be made to such persons or corporations for making such payments, without authority of law.
APPROVED, April 20, 1836.
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May 20, 1836

CHAP. LXXVII.—.An act explanatory of the act entitled “.An act to prevent defalcations on the part of the disbursing agents of the Government, 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 prevent defalcations on the part of the disbursing agents of the Government, and for other purposes,” approved the twenty-fifth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be construed to authorize the pension of any pensioner of the United States to be withheld.
APPROVED, May 20, 1836.
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July 4, 1836

CHAP. CCCLXII.—.An act granting half pay to widows or orphans, where their husbands and fathers leave died of wounds received in the military service of the United States, in certain cases, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when any officer, non-officer, musician or private of the militia, including rangers, sea fencibles, and volunteers, shall have died while in the service of the United States, since the twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, or who shall have died in consequence of a wound received whilst in the service, since the day aforesaid, and shall have left 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 or receiving such wound, for and during the term of five years; and in case of the death or marriage of such widow before the expiration of said five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the said decedent: Provided, That the half pay aforesaid shall be half the monthly pay of the officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians and privates of the infantry of the regular army, and no more: Provided, also, That no greater sum shall be allowed to the widow or to the child or children, of any officer, than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, soldier, Indian spy, mariner or marine, whose service during the revolutionary war was such as is specified in the act passed the seventh day of June eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution,” have died since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and before the date of said act, the amount of pension which would have accrued from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to the time of his death, and become payable to him by virtue of that act, if he had survived the passage thereof, shall be paid to his widow; and If he left no widow, to his children, in the manner prescribed in the act hereby amended.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person who served in the war of the revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution,” have died, leaving a widow whose marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of his service, such widow shall be entitled to receive, during the time she may remain unmarried, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband, by virtue of the act aforesaid, if living at the time it was passed.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any money or half pay granted by this act, shall be utterly void and of no effect; each person acting for and in behalf of any one entitled to money under this act, shall take and subscribe an oath, to be administered by the proper accounting officer and retained by him and put on file, before a warrant shall be delivered to him, that he has no interest in said money by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shall adopt such forms of evidence, in applications under this act, as the President of the United States shall prescribe.
APPROVED, July 4, 1836.
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July 7, 1838

CHAP. CLXXXIX.—.An .act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congres8 assembled, That if any person who served in the war of the Revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” have died, leaving a widow, whose marriage took place after the expiration of the last period of his service, and before the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, such widow shall be entitled to receive, for and during the term of five years from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband in virtue of said act, if living at the time it was passed; Provided, That in the event of the marriage of such widow, said annuity or pension shall be discontinued.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest, in any annuity, half pay, or pension, granted by this act, shall be valid, nor shall the half pay, annuity, or pension, granted by this act, or any former act of Congress, be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any process in law, or equity, but shall ensure wholly to the personal benefit of the pensioner or annuitant entitled to the same; and that before a warrant shall he delivered to any person acting for or in behalf of any one entitled to money under this act, such person shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, to be administered by the proper accounting officer, and put on file, that he has no interest in said money, by any pledge, mortgage, transfer, agreement, understanding, or arrangement, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any other person.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shall adopt such regulations and forms of evidence, in relation to applications and payments under this act as the President of the United States may prescribe.
Approved, July 7, 1838.
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June 19, 1840

CHAP. XXXIX. — .An .act making provision for the payment of pensions to the
executors or administrators of deceased pensioners in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in case any male pensioner shall die, leaving children, hut no widow, the amount of pension to such pensioner at the time of his death shall be paid to the executor or administrator on the estate of such pensioner, for the sole and exclusive benefit of the children, to be by him distributed among them in equal shares, and the same shall not be considered as a part of the assets of said estate, nor liable to be applied to the payment of the debts of said estate in any case whatever.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case any pensioner who is a widow shall die, leaving children, the amount of pension due at the time of her death shall be paid to the executor or administrator for the benefit of her children, as directed in the foregoing section.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death of any pensioner, whether male or female, leaving children, the amount of pension may be paid to any one or each of them, as they may prefer, without the intervention of an administrator.
APPROVED, June 19, 1840.
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August 16, 1841

CHAP. VIII.—An act to provide for the payment of Navy Pensions.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and six cents is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in th0 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions and half-pay chargeable on the navy pension fund: Provided, That all widow or children of all naval officers, seamen, or marines, now deceased, and entitled to receive or make proof of their pensions under the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall receive the same until the close of the next session of Congress; but no widows or children of any naval officer, seaman, or marine, who may hereafter die, shall be entitled to any pension by virtue only of any provision in the said act.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no officer, seaman, or ma1rifle, entitled to a pension from the navy pension fund, who receives pay from the public treasury, shall receive more from the said fund than is sufficient to make the whole amount received from both the above named sources equal to the pay fixed by law for the grade to which the officer, seaman, or marine may belong as an officer in the services in which he may be engaged, during the year, so that no officer shall receive pay at the same time both as a pensioner and an officer in service.
APPROVED, August 16, 1841.
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August 23, 1842

CHAP. 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 the United States of America in congress assembled, That the marriage of the widow, after the death of her husband, for whose services she claims a pension, under the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall be no bar to the claim of such widow to the benefit of that act, she being a widow at the time she makes application for a pension.
APPROVED, August 23, 1842.
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February 20, 1845

CHAP. XV.—..An .act restricting the grant of pensions in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act a pension shall not be granted to any widow for or during any part or portion of the time her husband may have received one, whose declaration therefore shall not have been made on or before the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and shall not have been received at the pension office on or before the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
APPROVED, February 20, 1845.

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.

The Pension Laws Of The United States-1792-1813.

Years ago when I first started I would get into some arguments over the pension laws I would say one thing and another would say something else and still another would say that was wrong too. Who was right?, well we all were right in as far as the year the pension bill passed. In other words you can’t quote a pension law of the 1790’s for a person who is fighting in 1812, or the pension law’s of 1812 to those who’s fighting in the civil war. The pension laws were changing all the time, they would change from year to year and in some cases month to month. When one is trying to find out how and what a ancestor was to get or what he had to do to get his pension is hard to find out and there are so many pension laws to hunt and research. I decided it was time that someone should do something about it.

I will place all the pension laws I can find here so no one will have to hunt all over the web for them. This information many only take one page then it many take two or three or more.
I will list the Laws by year, to help cut down on your search. When looking for a pension law look for the year your ancestor was trying to get his pension, this law will tell what he would get and what he had to do to get. I hope this page will help all those who have question about a ancestors pension.

Note. This information will come from the many departments of the Library of Congress.
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Chap. XL—.An act to provide for the settlement of the Claims of Widows and
Orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the Claims
to Invalid Pensions.

March 23, 1792.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of the resolutions of the late Congress of the United States, passed on the second day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and the twenty-third day of July, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-seven, so far as they have barred, or may be construed to bar the claims of the widow or orphans of any officer of the late army, to the seven years half pay of such officer, shall, from and after the passing this act, be suspended for and during the term of two years.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any commissioned officer, not having received the commutation of half pay, and any non-corn-missioned officer, soldier or seaman, disabled in the actual service the United States, during the late war, by wounds or other known cause, who did not desert from the said service, shall be entitled to be placed on the pension list of the United States, during life or the continuance of such disability, and shall also be allowed such farther sum for arrears of pension, from the time of such disability, not exceeding rate of the annual allowance, in consequence of his disability, as
circuit court of the district, in which they respectively reside, may think just. Provided, That in every such case, the rules and regulations shall be complied with; that is to say First. Every applicant shall attend the court in person, except where it shall be certified
two magistrates that he is unable to do so, and shall produce to circuit court, the following proofs, to wit :—A certificate from the cornmanding officer of the ship, regiment, corps or company, in which served, setting forth his disability, and that he was thus disabled while in the service of the United States; or the affidavits of two credible witnesses to the same effect. The affidavits of three reputable freeholders of the city, town, or county, in which he resides, ascertaining their own knowledge, the mode of life, employment, labour, or means support of. such applicant, for the last twelve months. Secondly.
circuit court, upon receipt of the proofs aforesaid, shall forthwith to examine into the nature of the wound, or other cause of disability of such applicant, and having ascertained the degree thereof, certify the same, and transmit the result of their inquiry, in case, in their opinion, the applicant should be put on the pension list, to the Secretary at War, together with their opinion in writing, what proportion of monthly pay of such applicant will be equivalent to the degree of ascertained in manner aforesaid.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of the district court, in each district, shall publish this act in such manner as the judge of the district court shall think effectual to give general information there of to the people of the district, and shall give like information of the times and places of holding the circuit courts in such district. And in districts wherein a circuit court is not directed by law to be holden, the judge of the district court shall be, and he hereby is authorized to exercise all the powers given by this act to the respective circuit courts. And it shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit courts respectively, during the term of two years from the passing of this act, to remain at
the places where the said courts shall be holden, five days at the least from the time of opening the sessions thereof, that persons disabled as aforesaid, may have full opportunity to make their application for the relief proposed by this act.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary at War, upon receipt of the proofs, certificate and opinion aforesaid, shall cause the same to be duly filed in his office, and place the name of such applicant on the pension list of the United States, in conformity thereto: Pro. vided always, That in any case, where the said Secretary shall have cause to suspect imposition or mistake, he shall have power to withhold the name of such applicant from the pension list, and make report of the same to Congress, at their next session.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all non-commissioned officers, soldiers and seamen, disabled in the actual service of the United States, during the late war, whose disability and rate of allowance have been ascertained, pursuant to the regulations prescribed by the late Congress, and have not applied to be placed on the pension list, until after the time, limited by the act of Congress for that purpose, was expired, shall now be placed on the pension list, and be entitled to demand and receive their respective pensions, according to the allowances ascertained as aforesaid, any thing in this act, or any act of the late Congress, to the contrary, notwithstanding.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this act, no sale, transfer or mortgage of the whole or any part of the pension or arrearages of pension, payable to any non-commissioned officer, soldier or seaman, before the same shall become due, shall be valid. And every person, claiming such pension or arrears of pension, or any part thereof, under power of attorney or substitution, shall, before the same is paid, make oath or affirmation before some justice of the peace of the place where the same is payable, that such power or substitution is not given by reason of any transfer of such pension, or arrears of pension, and any person, who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be thereof convicted shall suffer, as for willful and corrupt perjury.
APPROVED, March 23, 1792.
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February 28. 1793.

Chap. XVII.—.An .Act to regulate the Claims to Invalid Pensions.

WHEREAS the act, passed at the last session of Congress, in titled “An
act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions,” is found by experience inadequate to prevent the admission of improper claims to invalid pensions, and not to contain a sufficient facility for the allowance of such as may be well founded: Therefore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the second, third and fourth sections of the said act, be repealed, and that in future, all claims to such pensions shall be regulated in the manner following, to wit:

First.—All evidence relative to Invalids shall be taken upon oath or affirmation, before the judge of the district, in which such invalids reside, or before any three persons specially authorized by commission from the said judge.

Secondly.—The evidence relative to any claimant must prove decisive disability to have been the effect of known wounds, received while in the actual line of his duty, in the service of the United States, during the late war. That this evidence must be the affidavits of the commanding officer or surgeon of the ship, regiment, corps or company, in which such claimant served, or two other credible witnesses, to the same effect, setting forth the time and place of such known wound.

Thirdly.—Every claimant shall be examined upon oath or affirmation, by two physicians or surgeons, to be authorized by commission from the said judge, who shall report, in writing, their opinion, upon oath or affirmation, of the nature of the said disability, and, in what degree, it prevents the claimant from obtaining his livelihood, by labor.

Fourthly.—Every claimant shall produce evidence of the time of his leaving the service of the United States. He must also produce evidence of three reputable freeholders of the city, town or county, in which he usually resided for the two years immediately after he left the service, as aforesaid, of the existence of his disability, during that period; and ascertaining, of their own knowledge, the mode of life, employment, labour or means of support of the claimant.

Fifthly.—And the said claimant must produce the evidence of two credible witnesses, of the continuance of his disability, from the expiration of the said two years, to the time of his application.

Sixthly.—Each claimant must show a good and sufficient cause why he did not apply for a pension to the person or persons authorized to examine his claim, on or before the eleventh of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, the time limited for applications of this nature.

Seventhly.—No evidence of any claimant shall be admitted whose claim has been examined and rejected, on or before the aforesaid eleventh of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the judge of the district shall transmit a list of such claims, accompanied by the evidence herein directed, to the Secretary for the department of War, in order that the same may be compared with the muster-rolls, and other documents in his office; and the said Secretary shall make a statement of the cases of the said claimants to Congress, with such circumstances and remarks, as may be necessary, in order to enable them to take such order thereon, as they may judge proper.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no person not on the pension list, before the twenty-third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, shall be entitled to a pension, who shall not have cornplied with the rules and regulations herein prescribed; saving however to all persons, all and singular their rights founded upon legal adjudications under the act, intituled “An act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans, barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions :“ But it shall be the duty of the Secretary at War, in conjunction with the Attorney General, to take such measures as may be necessary to obtain an adjudication of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the validity of
any such rights claimed under the act aforesaid, by the determination of certain persons styling themselves commissioners.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That no claim to a pension shall
be allowed under this act, which shall not be presented within two years
from the passing the same.
APPROVED, February 28, 1793.
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March 23, 1796.

Chap. VIII.—.An .Act for the relief certain officers and soldiers who have been wounded or disabled in the actual service of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That every commissioned, non-commissioned officer, private or musician, who has been wounded or disabled, while in the line of his duty, in actual service, called out by authority of any law of the United States, while he be longed to the militia; or any volunteer not belonging to the militia, who has been wounded or disabled, while in the line of his duty, in actual service, as aforesaid, shall be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pay, and under such regulations, as shall be directed by the President of the entitled States for the time being: Provided, the rate of compensation for such wounds and disabilities shall
never exceed for the highest disabilities, half the monthly pay received by any commissioned officer, at the time of being so wounded or disabled; and that the rate of compensation to non-commissioned officers, privates and musicians, shall never exceed five dollars per month; and that all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so disabled, to receive only a sum in proportion to the highest disability: And provided, that these provisions shall not be construed to extend to any person wounded or disabled, before the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, nor to any person wounded or disabled since that time, who has made application for a pension, under any existing law of the United States, and has been denied, or admitted on the pension list: And provided, that all applications herein shall be made within one year after the end of the present session of Congress.
APPROVED, March 23, 1796.
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June 7. 1794

CHAP. LII.—An Act in addition to the “.Act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States.”

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any commissioned officer in the troops of the United States shall, while the service of the United States, die by reason of wounds received actual service of the United States, and shall leave a widow, or if no widow, shall leave a child or children, under age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to, and receive the half of the monthly pay, to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years: And 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 such deceased officer, while under the age of sixteen years, and, in like manner, the allowance to the child or children of such deceased, where there is no widow, shall be paid no longer than while there is a child or children under the age aforesaid. Provided, That no greater sum shall be allowed in any case, to the widow or to the child or children of any officer, than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the army be in future paid
in such manner that the arrears shall at no time exceed two months.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That to such of the troops as are or may be employed on the frontiers, and under such special circumstances as in the opinion of the President of the United States, may require an augmentation of some parts of their rations, the President be authorized to direct such augmentation as he may judge necessary, not exceeding four ounces of beef, two ounces of flour and half a gill of rum or whiskey in addition to each ration, and half a pint of salt to one hundred rations.
APPROVED, June 7, 1794.
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March 14, 1798.

CHAP. XV.—.An .Act to provide for the Widows and Orphans of certain deceased Officers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions for widows and orphans of commissioned officers of troops of the United States, contained in the first section of the law passed on the seventh day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, intituled “An act in addition to the act making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States,” be and, the same are hereby extended to the widows and orphan children of commissioned officers of the troops of the United States, and of the militia, who have died by reason of wounds received since the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, in the actual service of the United States: Provided, application shall be made within two years after the end of the present session of Congress.
APPROVED, March 14, 1798.
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March 3, 1803.

CHAP. XXX VII.—An Act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, during the Revolutionary war.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, soldier, or seaman, disabled in the actual service of the United States, by wounds received during the revolutionary war, and who did not desert the said service, shall be entitled to be placed on the pension list of the United States during life: Provided, that, in substantiating the claims thereto, the rules and regulations following, shall be complied with:

First. All evidence shall be taken on oath or affirmation before the judge of the district in which such invalid resides, or before some person specially authorized by commission from the said judge.

Secondly. The evidence relative to any claimant, must prove decisive disability to have been the effect of known wounds received while in the actual line of his duty, in the service of the United States, during the revolutionary war: that this evidence must be the affidavits of the commanding officer or surgeon of the ship, regiment, corps, or company in which such claimant served, or two other credible witnesses to the effect, setting forth the time and place of such known wound.

Thirdly. Every claimant shall be examined on oath or affirmation, by some respectable physician or surgeon, to be authorized by commission from the said judge, who shall report in writing his opinion, upon oath or affirmation, of the nature of said disability, and in what degree it prevents the claimant from obtaining his livelihood.

Fourthly. Every claimant must produce evidence of his having continued in the service of the United States, to the conclusion of the war in seventeen hundred and eighty-three, or being left out of the service in consequence of his disability, or in consequence of some derangement of the army, and of the mode of life or employment he has since followed, and of the original existence and continuance of his disability.

Fifthly. Every claimant must show satisfactory cause to the said the district, why he did not apply for a pension in conformity heretofore passed, before the expiration of the limitation thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said judge of the district or person by him commissioned as aforesaid, shall give to each claimant a transcript of the evidence and proceedings had, respecting his claim and shall also transmit a list of such claims, accompanied by the evidence herein directed, to the secretary of the department of war, in order that the same may be examined, and if correct, agreeably to the intent and meaning of this act, the said applicants are thenceforth to be placed on the pension list of the United States: Provided, that in no case a pension shall commence before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and three, except so far as to offset the commutation of half pay received by such officer, in which case the proper officer is to calculate the pension from the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-four.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the pensions allowed by this act shall be estimated in the manner following, that is to say: a full pension to a commissioned officer shall be considered the one half of his monthly pay as by law established, and the proportions less than a full pension shall be the like proportions of half pay. And a full pension to a non-commissioned officer, private soldier, or seaman, shall be five dollars per month, and the proportions less than a full pension, shall be the like proportions of five dollars per month, but no pension of a commissioned officer shall be calculated at a higher rate than the half pay of a lieutenant-colonel.

Sac. 4. And be it further enacted, That the pensioners becoming such in virtue of this act, shall be paid in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid, who have heretofore been placed on the pension list of the United States, under such restrictions and regulations, in all respects, as are prescribed by the laws of the United States, in such cases provided.
APPROVED, March 3, 1803.
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April 10, 1806.

CHAP. XXV.—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 any commissioned or non-commissioned officer, musician, soldier, marine or seaman, disabled in the actual service of the United States, while in the line of his duty, by known wounds received during the revolutionary war, and who did not desert the service; or who, in consequence of disability as aforesaid, resigned his commission or took a discharge; or who, after incurring disability as aforesaid, was taken captive by the enemy, and remained either in captivity or on parole, until the close of said revolutionary war; or who, in consequence of known wounds received as aforesaid, has at any period since, become and continued disabled in such manner as to render him unable to procure a subsistence by manual labour; whether such officer, musician, soldier, marine or seaman, served as a volunteer, in any proper service against the common enemy, or belong ed to a detachment of the militia, which served against the common enemy, or to the regular forces of the United States, or of any particular state, lie shall, upon substantiating his claim, in the manner herein after described, be placed on the pension list of the United States, during life, or the continuance of such disability, and be entitled, under the regulations herein after mentioned, to receive such sum as shall be found just and proper, by the testimony adduced.

SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted, That in substantiating such claim, the following rules and regulations shall be complied with, that is to say: All evidence shall be taken on oath or affirmation, before the judge of the district, or one of the judges of the territory in which such claimant resides, or before some person specially authorized by commission from said judge.

Decisive disability, the effect of a known wound or wounds, received while in the actual service and line of duty against the common enemy, during the revolutionary war, must be proved by the affidavit of the commanding officer of the regiment, corps, company, ship, vessel, or craft, in which such claimant served; or of two other credible witnesses to the same effect, setting forth the time when, and place where, such known wound or wounds were received; and particularly describing the same.

The nature of such disability, and in what degree it prevents the claimant from obtaining his subsistence, must be proved by the affidavit some reputable physician or surgeon, stating his opinion either from his own knowledge and acquaintance with the claimant, or from an examination of such claimant on oath or affirmation; which when necessary for that purpose, shall be administered to said claimant by said judge or commissioner. And the said physician or surgeon, in his affidavit, shall particularly describe the wound or wounds from whence the disability appears to be derived.

Every claimant must ?rove, by at least one credible witness, that he continued in service during the whole time for which he was detached, or for which he engaged, unless he was discharged, or left the service in consequence of some derangement of the army, or in consequence of his disability resigned his commission; or was after his disability in captivity or on parole, until the close of the revolutionary war. And in the same manner must prove his mode of life and employment since he left the service, and the place or places where he has since resided, and his place of residence, at the time of taking such testimony.

Every claimant shall, by his affidavit, give satisfactory reasons why he did not make application for a pension before, and that he is not on the pension list of any state; and the judge or commissioner shall certify in writing, his opinion of the credibility of the witnesses, whose affidavits he shall take, in all those eases, where by this act it is said the proof shall be made by a credible witness or witnesses. And also, that the examining physician or surgeon is reputable in his profession.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said judge of the district, or person by him commissioned as aforesaid, shall transmit a list of such claims, accompanied by the evidence, affidavits, certificates, and proceedings had thereon in pursuance of this act, noting particularly the day on which the testimony was closed before him, to the secretary for the department of war, that the same may be compared with muster rolls, or other documents in his office: and the said secretary shall make a statement of all such cases, which, together with all the testimony, he
shall from time to time transmit to Congress, with such remarks as he may think proper, that Congress may be enabled to place such claimants on the pension list as shall be found entitled to the privilege. And it shall be the duty of the judge, or commissioner aforesaid, to permit each claimant to take a transcript of the evidence and proceedings had respecting his claim, if he shall desire it, and to certify the same to be correct.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That every pension, or increase thereof, by virtue of this act, shall commence on the day when the claimant shall have completed his testimony, before the authority proper to take the same.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That an increase of pension may be allowed to persons, already placed upon the pension list of the United States, for disabilities caused by known wounds received during revolutionary war, in all eases where justice shall require the same: Provided, that the increase, when added to the pension formerly received, shall in no case exceed a full pension.

Every invalid making application for this purpose, shall be examined by two reputable physicians or surgeons, to be authorized by commission from the judge of the district, where such invalid resides; who shall report in writing, on oath or affirmation, their opinion of the nature of the applicant’s disability, and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labour, which report shall be transrnitted by said physicians or surgeons, to the secretary for the department of war; who shall compare the same with the documents in his office,
and shall make a statement of all such eases, which, together with the original report, he shall from time to time transmit to Congress, with such remarks as he may think proper, that they may be enabled to do justice to such pensioners.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That a full pension given by this act to a commissioned officer, shall be one half of the monthly pay legally allowed, at the time of incurring said disability, to his grade in the forces raised by the United States; and the proportions, less than a full pension, shall be the correspondent proportions of said half pay; and a full pension to a non-commissioned officer, musician, soldier, marine, or seaman, shall be five dollars a month, and the proportions less than a full pension, shall be the like proportions of five dollars a month ; but no pension of a commissioned officer shall be calculated at a higher rate than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel.

SEC. 7, And be it further enacted, That the pensions, or increase thereof, which may be allowed by this act, shall be paid in the same manner as pensions to invalids, who have been heretofore placed on the pension list, are now paid, and under such restrictions and regulations, in all respects, as are prescribed by law.

SEC. 8. 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 to any non-commissioned officer, musician, soldier, marine, or seaman, before the same becomes due, shall he valid. And every person claiming such pension or any part thereof, under power of attorney or substitution, shall, before the same is paid, make oath or affirmation, before some magistrate, legally authorized to take the same, a copy of which, attested by said magistrate, shall be lodged with the
person who pays said pension; that such power or substitution is not given by reason of any transfer of such pension, or part thereof. And any person who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be thereof convicted, shall suffer as for willful and corrupt perjury.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all laws of the United States heretofore passed, so far as they authorize persons to be placed on the pension list of the United States, for, and in consequence of, disabilities derived from known wounds received in the revolutionary war, shall be, and they are hereby repealed: Provided, that nothing in this repealing clause shall injure, or in any way affect those persons already upon the pension list of the United States; and that the Secretary for the department of war shall proceed upon the testimony which has been transmitted to him by any claimant, before the passage of this act, in the same manner as though this act had never passed.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That this act, so far as it authorizes the admission of persons upon the pension list of the United States, shall remain in force for and during the space of six years from the passage Proviso, sage thereof, and no longer: Provided, that this limitation shall not affect or impair the right of any invalid who may have completed his testimony in the manner prescribed by this act before this limitation commences its operation, but which has not been transmitted to the secretary for the department of war.
APPROVED, April 10, 1806.
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April 10, 1812

CHAP. LIV.—.An .,act for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the late campaign on the Wabash.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers, according to the rank assigned them by Governor Harrison, and which they held on the seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the volunteers and militia, and the legal representatives of those who were killed or died of their wounds, composing the army that served in the late campaign on the Wabash against the hostile Indians, shall receive the same compensation which is allowed by law to the militia of the United States when called into the actual service of the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the officers, according to the rank which they held as aforesaid, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers, of the volunteers or militia, who served in the said campaign, and who were killed or died of wounds received in said service, leaving a widow, or if no widow, shall have left a child or children, under the age of sixteen years, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to, and receive the half of the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, or receiving the wound of which he died, for and during the term of five years; and 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 such deceased officer or soldier, whilst under the age of sixteen years; and in like manner the allowance to the child or children of such deceased, where there is no widow, shall be paid no longer than while there is a child or children under the age aforesaid: Provided, that no greater sum shall be allowed in any case to the widow or to the child or children of any officer than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every officer, according to the rank which he held as aforesaid, non-commissioned officer and private, of the volunteers and militia, who served in the said campaign, and who have been disabled by known wounds received in said service, shall be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pension as shall be directed by the President of the United States, upon satisfactory proof of such wound and disability being produced to the Secretary of War, agreeably to such rules as he may prescribe: Provided, that the rate of compensation for such wounds and disabilities shall never, for the highest disability, exceed half the monthly pay of such officer, at the time of being so wounded or disabled, and that the rate of compensation to a non-commissioned officer and private, shall never exceed five dollars per month; and all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so disabled, to receive a sum in proportion to the highest disability; but no pension of a commissioned officer shall be calculated at a higher rate than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons belonging to the said army, who may have had a horse or horses killed or lost during the late battle on the Wabash, shall be entitled to, and receive the value thereof: Provided, that the proof of the value of such horse or horses shall be by affidavit of the quartermaster of the corps to which the owner may have belonged, or of two other credible witnesses.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That to the heirs or legal representatives of every person who was killed, and to every person who was wounded in the said campaign, who were purchasers of public lands of the United States, and whose lands had not, before the seventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, been actually sold
or reverted to the United States, for the non-payment of part of the purchase money, a further time of three years shall be allowed, in addition to the time allowed by former laws, to complete their payments; which further time of three years shall commence from the respective times when their payments should have been completed according to former laws.
APPROVED, April 10, 1812.
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April 25, 1812

CHAP. LXIX,—.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. (a)

Be it enacted by tine Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entituled “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, shall be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force for and during the space of six years from the passage
of this act, and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the agents for the payment
of invalid pensioners of the United States, shall in future be required
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, April 25, 1812.
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February 13, 1813

CHAP, XXII.—.,An 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 two per centum reserved in the hands of the collectors and consuls by the act of June, eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An act concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods,” shall be paid to the treasury, under the like regulations provided for other public money, and shall constitute a fund for the purposes provided for by the seventeenth section of the before mentioned act.

SEC. . And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized and required to place on the pension list, under the like regulations and restrictions, as are used in relation to the navy of the United States, any officer, seaman or marine, who, on board of any private armed ship or vessel bearing a commission of letter of marque, shall
have been wounded or otherwise disabled in any engagement with the enemy; allowing to the captain a sum not exceeding twenty dollars per month; to lieutenants and sailing master a sum not exceeding twelve dollars each per month ; to marine officer, boatswain, gunner, carpenter, master’s mate and prize masters, a sum not exceeding ten dollars each
per month; to all other officers a sum not exceeding eight dollars each per month, for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; and to a seaman, or acting as a marine, the sum of six dollars per month, for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; which several pensions shall be paid, by direction of the Secretary of the Navy, out of the fund above provided, and from no other.

SEC. 3. And he it further enacted, That the commanding officer of every vessel having a commission, or letters of marque and reprisal, shall enter in his journal the name and rank of any officer, and the name of any seaman, who, during his cruise, shall have been wounded or disabled as aforesaid, describing the manner and extent, as far as practicable, of such wound or disability.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That every collector shall transmit quarterly to the Secretary of the Navy, a transcript of such journals as may have been reported to him, so far as it gives a list of the officers and crew, and the description of wounds and disabilities, the better to enable the secretary to decide on claims for pensions.
APPROVED, February 13, 1813.

The Creek War.

The Creek War is something I know little about so we all my learn something new together. I was asked the other day if I had a list of Federal Government men that fright in the war. Will I took it that they were talking about the United States Government which wasn’t around till the end of the Revolutionary War. That would mean the next Creek war between the United states would have been around 1814, but as I wasn’t given a time line it could have been even later? Like I said I know little about this war So I will put all I have here in the hope it well help some one, as I know there are family’s looking for a ancestor that was in that war in some way. There may be more information on a name placed here so if you see a name and would like to know if there is more, you can find my address in my profile, I will be glad to hear from you.

Note. This information will come from the Library of Congress.

A BILL.
MARCH 2, 1883.

For further relief to such of the friendly Creek Indians, whose property was destroyed during the Creek war by the hostile Indians, in consequence of their attachment to the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States shall appoint a commissioner, whose duty it shall be to examine the claims of the friendly Creek Indians for losses sustained by injuries and depredations committed by the hostile Creek Indians during the Creek war, and to pay such claims as shall be considered established by competent proof: Provided, The same shall not exceed forty thousand dollars: Provided, also, Said claims shall not have been satisfied under “An act for the relief of certain Creek Indians,” passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. SEC. 2. •.And be it further enacted, That if such unsatis2 fled claims shall be found to exceed the sum of forty thousand dollars, it shall be the duty of said commissioner to pay the claimants in fair and just proportions to the losses they have severally sustained; and to carry into effect the above pur6 poses, that the sum of forty thousand dollars be, and the same is
hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
THURSDAY, January 31, 1828.

That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the propriety of allowing Neil Smith, the value of the hire of a wagon and team, employed by General Gaines, for the transportation of baggage during the Creek War.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
TUESDAY, December 28, 1830.

The memorial of Joshua Kennedy, praying Congress to indemnify him for losses sustained during the Creek war.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
WEDNESDAY, June 21, 1854.

A petition of citizens of Knox county, Tennessee, praying that the soldiers in the Creek war of 1814 may be placed on the same footing, as to pensions and bounty land, with the soldiers of other wars of the United States.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1823-1824
MONDAY, April 26, 1824.

A petition of sundry citizens of Dickson county, in the state of Tennessee, representing that James M'Cauley, of said county, performed a tour of duty of six months, during the Creek war, that his personal suffering during said period, has rendered him unable to labor.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
WEDNESDAY, June 11, 1856.

The petition of Joseph Clarke, a free man of color, who acted as waiter to a company of volunteers in the Creek war of 1836, praying a pension on account of a wound received in the service.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
MONDAY, February 14, 1848.

the memorial of Peter Raudon, legal representative of John Raudon, deceased, praying indemnity for losses by Indian depredations during the Creek war.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
THURSDAY, April 8, 1852.

the memorial of John D. Stell, in behalf of the widow and children of his brother Thomas J. Stell, praying remuneration for losses during the Creek war in 1836.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
MONDAY, March 15, 1830.

The petition of Joshua Kennedy, of the city of Mobile, praying Congress to indemnify him for losses sustained during the Creek war.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 1850.

The Secretary of the Interior furnish, or cause to be furnished, for the use of the Senate, copies of the papers of the late Alexander Sanders, a Cherokee Indian, who was wounded in the Creek war, and in consequence thereof claimed to be entitled to a pension under the Cherokee treaty of 1835; also, a copy of the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions, disallowing the pension.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
TUESDAY, January 8, 1839.

The memorial of Joshua Kennedy, praying remuneration for losses sustained during the Creek war.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
THURSDAY, January 3, 1850.

The petition of J. Downs, praying compensation for forage supplied by him to a company of mounted riflemen in the Creek war.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
WEDNESDAY, January 19, 1859.

The memorial of Frances Steeley, formerly the widow of David Delk, a soldier in the Creek war, who was killed in battle, praying to be allowed a pension.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
THURSDAY, January 26, 1837.

The petition of Thomas Mullens, praying compensation for certain horses lost while in the service of the United States during the late Creek war.
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Note. As you may have noticed there is not a lot of information here, however you are given a time line or maybe a name that may lead you in a new direction in you hunt for that ancestor.

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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1851-1852
FRIDAY, July 16, 1852.

The petition of Stephen C. Kelly, praying for compensation for services and losses sustained by him during the Creek war of 1836.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1857-1858
TUESDAY, January 5, 1858.

The petition of Teal Smith, administrator of Richard Parvin, for compensation for losses sustained in the Creek war.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1857-1858
TUESDAY, May 18, 1858.

The petition of Stephen O. Kelly, praying remuneration for a horse lost in actual service in the Creek war, in the year 1836.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
MONDAY, December 31, 1849.

The petition of Thomas and Elizabeth Armstrong, heirs of Josiah Fletcher, deceased, praying compensation losses by depredations committed on his property by hostile Indians in the Creek war
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1857-1858
MONDAY, May 3, 1858.

The petition of Stephen O. Kelly, praying compensation for losses sustained in the Creek war of 1836.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
MONDAY, May 16, 1870.

George Fisher in the matter of an award made by the Secretary of War for indemnity for property destroyed by United States troops during the Creek war.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1849-1850
MONDAY, March 11, 1850.

1. The petition of William Simmons, praying for a pension on account of wounds and disabilities received and incurred in the Creek Indian war.

2. The memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, in behalf of John Scott, of Pike county, in said State, praying for relief on account of disabilities contracted from exposure during the Creek war.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1843-1844
FRIDAY, January 12, 1844.

A petition of O. W. Bailey, of the State of Alabama, praying for compensation for horses lost in the service of the United States during the Creek war.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1857-1858
TUESDAY, May 18, 1858.

The petition of Stephen O. Kelly, praying remuneration for a horse lost in actual service in the Creek war, in the year 1836.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
MONDAY, December 31, 1849.

The petition of Thomas and Elizabeth Armstrong, heirs of Josiah Fletcher, deceased, praying compensation losses by depredations committed on his property by hostile Indians in the Creek war
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1857-1858
MONDAY, May 3, 1858.

The petition of Stephen O. Kelly, praying compensation for losses sustained in the Creek war of 1836.
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
MONDAY, May 16, 1870.

George Fisher in the matter of an award made by the Secretary of War for indemnity for property destroyed by United States troops during the Creek war.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1849-1850
MONDAY, March 11, 1850.

1. The petition of William Simmons, praying for a pension on account of wounds and disabilities received and incurred in the Creek Indian war.

2. The memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, in behalf of John Scott, of Pike county, in said State, praying for relief on account of disabilities contracted from exposure during the Creek war.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1843-1844
FRIDAY, January 12, 1844.

1. A petition of O. W. Bailey, of the State of Alabama, praying for compensation for horses lost in the service of the United States during the Creek war.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1847-1848
TUESDAY, December 21, 1847.

2. The petition of William P. Yonge, praying remuneration for damage on cotton, taken by Thomas Hoxey and used as a breastwork, on board of a steamboat, during the Creek war
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1855-1856
MONDAY, February 18, 1856.

The petition of Robert S. Wimberly, of the county of Twiggs and State of Georgia, praying for a pension for services in the Creek war.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1831-1832
WEDNESDAY, January 4, 1832.

Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of paying John M. Harris and John A. Chapman for horses lost by them in the Creek war.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1836-1837
TUESDAY, December 20, 1836.

A petition of John Reilly, of Augusta, in the State of Georgia, praying compensation for property lost during the Creek war.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1857-1858
TUESDAY, February 2, 1858.

The petition of Dennis Hills, praying for pay as issuing commissary of subsistence to Major Charles H. Nelson in the Creek war of 1836.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1836-1837
MONDAY, December 12, 1836.

1. The claim of George M. Mason, a volunteer in the late Creek campaign, for compensation for a horse killed while carrying an express.

2. A petition of John Brown & Co., contractors for carrying the mail from the city of Washington to Wheeling, praying for an increase of compensation, in consequence of the increase of the mail, occasioned by the war with the Creek Indians.

3. The Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of remunerating the troops who were called into the service of the United States, under the proclamation of the President of the United States, of the 6th June, 1836, and who have been engaged since that time in the service of the United States, in the Creek war, or in the expedition to Florida against the Seminole Indians, for the loss of such horse or horses as shall have been killed in battle, or by casualty; or as shall have died or been abandoned in said service for want of forage; or such as shall have been abandoned on account of inability to perform further service, from fatigue in said service, or from other unavoidable causes.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1839-1840
MONDAY, May 25, 1840.

A claim of Adam Hall, of the State of Alabama, for compensation for two horses lost in the service of the United States, in the Creek war, in the year 1814.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1837-1838
MONDAY, May 21, 1838.

1. The application of Jamison and Wilkinson for remuneration for losses sustained as mail contractors in the State of Alabama during the late Creek war.

2. A memorial of Andrew Rembert, of the State of Alabama, praying compensation for a horse lost in the military service of the United States during the Creek Indian hostilities of 1836.

3. A memorial of Thomas W. Coker, of the State of Alabama, praying compensation for a horse lost in the military service of the United States during the Creek Indian hostilities of 1836.

4. A memorial of William J. Marston, of the State of Alabama, praying compensation for a horse lost in the military service of the United States during the Creek Indian hostilities of 1836.

5. A memorial of Alford Gaudy, of the State of Alabama, praying compensation for a horse lost in the military service of the United States during the Creek Indian hostilities of 1836.

6. A memorial of Andrew Rembert, of the State of Alabama, praying compensation for services as quartermaster, by special appointment, to a company of Alabama volunteers, while operating against the insurgent Creek Indian in the spring of 1837.
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1837-1838
MONDAY, March 5, 1838.

1 A petition of Guilford P. Gilden, of the State of Alabama, praying indemnity for property destroyed by the United States troops during the Creek war.

2. A petition of inhabitants of the county of Russell, in the State of Alabama, who were sufferers by the depredations of Creek Indians in 1836.

3. Documents in support of the claim of Captain Park's company of cavalry, for payment for services against the Creek Indians.