Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be authorized and directed to allow and pay to Stephen Champlin, a commander in the navy of the United States, his original rate of pension from the time it was reduced, viz., first of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, till it ceased by law, on the twentieth April, eighteen hundred and forty-four, deducting the amount of pension received by him during that period of time; and that the same be payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, January 26, 1849.