(No. 20.)—A Resolution for the speedy Payment of the three Month’s extra Pay to the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Musicians, and Privates, who have served in the late War with Mexico, allowed by the Act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the three months’ extra pay provided by the fifth section of the act approved July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, who have been in actual service in the late war with Mexico, and who have served out the term of their engagement, or have been honorably discharged, and to the widows or heirs of those who have died or been killed in the service, shall be paid and settled by the pay department of the army, under such regulations as the Paymaster-General, with the approval of the Secretary of War, shall establish.

Approved, July 29, 1848.