Thirtieth Congress,
thi Second Session,
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 out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty:

For revolutionary pensions, under the act of the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty-eight thousand four hundred dollars;

For invalid pensions, under various acts, two hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars;

For pensions to widows, under the act of the second of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars;

For pensions to widows and orphans, under the act of the twenty-first of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, twenty-four thousand dollars;

For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, under the act of the sixteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and the act of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, in addition to an unexpended balance remaining in the treasury of eleven thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-

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seven cents, payable through the Third Auditor’s office, ten thousand dollars;

For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, under the act of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, in addition to an unexpended balance remaining in the treasury of two thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-nine cents, payable through the Third Auditor’s office, one thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any agent for paying pensions, shall have a deputy, or clerk authorized by law, said deputy or Clerk shall have ^like^ power to administer oaths or affirmations, as said agent may have, and all oaths or affirmations, taken before said clerk or deputy, shall be of like obligation, and subject to like penalties for false swearing or affirmation, as if taken before the pension agent himself.