Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-07-11
BY AUTHORITY.



AN ACT Supplementary to the "Ac for the relief of
certain surviving officers and soldiers of the reyolu-
ton"
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiues of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That each Of the surviving
officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians.
soldiers, and Indian spies, who shall have served
in the continental line, or State troops. volun-
teers or militia at one more terms, a period of
two years, during the war of the revolution, and
who are not entitled TO any benefit under the act
tor the relief OF certain surviving officers and
soldiers of the revolution, passed the 18th day of
MAY, eighteen hundred ard twenty eight, be au-
thorlzed to receive, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated the amount
of his full pay in the said line, according to his
rank, but not exceeding in any case. the pay of
captain, in the snid line; such pay to commence
from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty one, and shall continue during
his natural life; and that any such officer, non
commissioned officer, musician, or private, as
aforesaid, who shall have served in the continent
tai line, Stale troops, volunteers or militia, term
or terms in the whole less than the above period.
but not less than six months, shall be authorized
to receive out OF any unappropriated money in the
Treasury, during his natural life, each according
to his term OF service, an ar5olnt bearing sum
rank tor the service of two years, as his term of
service did to the term aforesaid; to commence
from the fourth day of March one thousand eight
hundred and shrtv-one
Sec. =. And be at further enacted, That, no
person, receiving any annuity or pension under
any law of the United States providing for reyo
uionary officers and soldiers, shall he entitled to
the benefits of this act, unless he shall first reln
qush his further claim to such pension; and in
all payments under this act, the amount which MAJ
have been received under any ether act as afore-
said, since the date at which The payments under
this act shall commence, shall first be deducted
from such payment
SEC g. And be 1t further enacted, That the
pay allowed by this act shall, under the direction
OF the Secretary oil the Treasury, he paid to the
officer, noncommissioned officer, musician or pri
vate, entitled thereto, or his or their authorized
attorney, at such places and times as the Secre-
tary of the Treasury may direct, and that no
foreign officer shall be entitled to said paw, nor
shall any officer, commissioned officer, must
clan private receive the same until he furnish
the said Secretary satisfactory evidence that he
IS entitled to the SAM in conformity to the pro-
visions of this act al d the pay hereby allowed,
shall not be in any WY transferable or liable to-
attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process
whatever, but shall insure wholly to the persona
benefit Of the officer, non-commissioned officer.
musician or soldier entitled to the same.
Sec. 4. And be 1t further enacted, That So
much of the said pay accrued before the appro-
val of this act, shall be paid to the person entitled
20 the same as soon as may be, in the manner and
under the provisions above mentioned; and the
pay which shall accrue thereafter, shall be paid
semi-annually, in the manner above directed; and
in case of the death of any person embraced by
the provisions Of this act, or of the act to which
it is supplementary, during the period intervening
between the semi-annual payments directed to be
made by said acts, the proportionate amount of
pay which shall accrue between the last prece-
ding semi-annual payment, and the death of such
person, shall be paid to his widow, or if he leaye
40 widow, to his children.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the
officers, commissioned officers, mariners or
marines who served for like term in the naval
service, during the revolutionary war, shall be
entitled to the benefits of this act, in the same
manner as is provided for the officers and soldiers
Of the army of the revolution.
A. STEVENSON,
Speaker Of The House of Representatives.,
J. c. CALHOUN,
Ticc President of the United States,
and President Of the Senate
Approved, June 7, 1882
ANDREW JACKSON.
PUBLIC No. As
AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to
permt wharf to be built of he 1iphf-