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. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled “,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-two. And all pensions to officers and seamen in the naval service shall be regulated according to the pay of the navy as it existed on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, entitled “,” approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, as requires pensions that may have remained unclaimed in the hands of pension agents for eight months to be returned to the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that the time within which such pensions shall be returned to the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, extended to fourteen months, subject to all the other restrictions and provisions contained in the said act.

, August 23, 1842.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every settler in the district of lands subject to sale at Mineral Point, in the Territory of Wisconsin, who shall show, by proof which shall be satisfactory to the register and receiver of the land office at Muscoday, that he, by cultivation and possession, as required by the, was entitled to a right of pre-emption; and that he, the said settler, was refused the privileges granted by said act, in consequence of the mineral character of the tract of land applied for by him, shall be permitted to enter, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, one complete quarter section of land, of any lands in said land district which have not yet been offered at public sale: Provided, That no tract shall be entered, by any settler claiming under this act, which contains mines or discoveries of lead ore, or on which there may be an improvement, or on which any person may have a residence, or which may have been reserved from sale: And provided, further, That the claimant, under this act, and his witnesses, shall make oath, before a person duly qualified to administer oaths, to all the facts stated by them.

. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act be carried into effect, in conformity with the instructions which may be given by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the register and receiver of the land office at Muscoday.

, August 23, 1842.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the marriage of the widow, after the death of her husband, for whose services she claims a pension, under the, shall be no bar to the claim of such widow to the benefit of that act, she being a widow at the time she makes application for a pension.

, August 23, 1842.