Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a pension of one hundred dollars per annum be allowed and paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in half yearly payments, to Nancy Tompkins, the mother of John Place, late a seaman in the navy of the United States, for and during the period of her natural life, commencing from the sixth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

Approved, February 22, 1849.