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 THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1859. -439 clerk of the House may charge to said miscellaneous item, any deficiency Pi-oviso. in the items for stationery, folding documents, and furniture and repairs of the same, in the south wing of the Capitol. A1>1>Rov1·:1>, March 3, 1859. Cntr. LXXXVIII.-—An Act making Appropriations for the Paymento Invalid and March Sv 1859- other Pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth of ffune, eighteen hundred and silly. Be it enacted by the Senate and H>use of Representatives of the United Invalid Pensions. 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 Appmprimm otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty: For invalid pensions under various acts, four hundred and thirty thou- Invalid Pensions. sand dollars. For pensions under acts of the eighteenth March, eighteen hundred and 1818, ch. 19. eighteen, fifteenth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and seventh 1328,011, 5;;, June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, forty thousand dollars. 1832, ch. 126. For pensions to widows of those who served in the Revolutionary War, _ Pensions to under the third section of the act of fourth July, eighteenhundred and w‘;];,‘gSgh 86, thirty-six, the acts of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, third 1838:qh: iss: March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, seventeenth June, eighteen hun- 1843- cla- 10%- dred and forty-four, second- February and twenty-ninth July, eighteen ft gh: Q?"' hundred and forty-eight, and second section act of third February, eighteen 1848; ch. 120. hundred and fifty-three, two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. 1853v °h· 4L For pensions to widows and orphans, under first section act fourth July, Widows and eighteen hundred and thirty-six, act of twenty-first July, eighteen hundred °r1;lg;g"éh 862 and forty-eight, first section act of third February, eighteen hundred and 1848: ch; 108; fifty-three, and under special acts, fifty thousand dollars. 1858. ch- 41- For navy invalid pensions, two thousand dollars. N¤VY i¤"¤1id For navy pensions to widows and orphans, under act of eleventh P§;'.sl°nsénSi0nS Augusgueighteen hundred and forty-eight, one hundred and fifteen thou- `}§l;R,h_ 155.- gan 0 gps, 0 . lx. p. 282. For privateer invalids, one thousand dollars. v8J§i;"°t°°' m' Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of application for Applications for the payment of pensions to invalids under the several laws of Congress P_’~Ym°¤*P*` 1193* granting pensions to invalids, the aflidavit of two surgeons or physicians, wig, tgugmfcg whose credibility as such shall be certified by the magistrate befbre whom by aindavit of the adidavit is made, stating the continuance of the disability for which P §;E;*;‘zf mp the pension was originally granted (describing it) and the rate of such dis- d,,v;,_ ability at the time of making the ailidavit, shall accompany the application of the first payment, which shall fall due upon a day in the fiscal year for which provision is made herein, to be declared by the Secretary of the Interior, and at the end of every two years thereafter; and if in a case of xrdiersrsncs of continued disability it shall be stated at a rate below that for which the 1::1*1*:**;, in pension was originally granted, the applicant shall only be paid at the rate cm_"1 gm" stated in the affidavit: Provided, That where the pension shall have been Pi-oviso. originally granted for a total disability, in consequence of the loss of a limb, ltmdayit not or other cause which cannot, either in whole or in part be removed, the Qfgllgmd ‘;dP§Q; above atlidavit shall not be necessary to entitle the applicant to payment. total elllgigbiiity. Approved, March 3, 1859.