Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed and paid to John Clark, a soldier of the forty-fifth regiment of infantry in the late war with Great Britain, a pension at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and to continue during his natural life; the said Clark having been severely injured while in the line of his duty, in September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.

Approved, August 14, 1848.