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 pay to H. Carrington, executor of the last will of Paulina Le Grand, deceased, the half yearly pension of three hundred dollars, which was due and owing to the said Paulina, in September, anno Domino eighteen hundred and forty-four; and which pension was duly demanded by the said Paulina in her lifetime, but not paid, because the necessary appropriation had not been made.

Approved, March 3, 1849.