# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 40

Chap. XL.—An Act to provide for the widows and orphans of militia slain, and for militia disabled in the service of the United States.
Representatives of volunteer or militia officers slain in actual service entitled to pension for five years.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any commissioned officer of the militia, or of any volunteer corps, shall while in the service of the United States die by reason of any wound received in actual service of the United States, and leave a widow, or if no widow, a child or ​children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of live years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer: Provided always,Proviso. That such half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children.
Officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, or privates disabled in actual service, placed on pension list. April 10, 1806, chap. 25. Limitation of the amounts of pensions.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private of the militia, or of any volunteer corps, shall be disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, while in the line of his duty, he shall upon substantiating his claim in the manner described by an act, entitled “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pension, and under such regulations as are provided by the said act, or as may hereafter be provided by law: Provided always, That the compensation to be allowed for such wounds or disabilities, to a commissioned officer shall not exceed for the highest rate of disability half the monthly pay of such officer at the time of his being wounded or disabled, and that no officer shall receive more than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel; and that the rate of compensation to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, shall not exceed five dollars per month: And provided also,Proviso. That all inferior disabilities shall entitle the persons so disabled, to receive an allowance proportionate to the highest disability.
Commencement of this act.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall be construed to have effect from and after the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Repeal of part of a former act. Act of February 6, 1812, ch. 21.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sixth section of an act, entitled “An act authorizing the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps,” passed the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, August 2, 1813.