musician, mariner, marine, or soldier, on the pension list of the United States, to be paid in the same manner as pensions to invalids who have been placed on the pension list are now paid, and under such restrictions and regulations, in all respects, as are prescribed by law.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every pension, by virtue of this act, shall commence on the day that the declaration under oath or affirmation, prescribed in the foregoing section, shall be made.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, no sale, transfer, or mortgage, of the whole, or any part, of the pension payable in pursuance of this act, shall be valid ; and any person who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be thereof convicted, shall suffer as for wilful and corrupt perjury.

The act of March 18, 1818, continued in force until the passage of the act of the 1st May, 1820, which provides that no person shall receive a pension after payment of that due on the 4th March, 1820, unless he exhibits a schedule of his whole estate and income, (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted), which schedule shall be in the form of an oath, and be deposited with the clerk of the court, a certified copy of the schedule and oath, with the opinion of the court, to be delivered to the Secretary of War. The Secretary of War was directed to strike from the pension list the names of persons who, in his opinion, were not in indigent circumstances.

AN ACT in addition to an act, entitled " An act to provide for certain persong engaged in the land and naral services of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hun. dred and eighteen.

APPROVED. MAY 1, 1820, Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Ilouse of Representatires of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, no person who now is, or hereafter may be, placed on the pension list of the United States, by virtue of the act, entitled “ An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war,” passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, shall, after the payment of that part of the pension which became due on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and

twenty, continue to receive the pension granted by the said act, until he shall have exhibited to some court of record, in the county, city, or borough, in which he resides, a schedule, subscribed by him, containing his whole estate and income, (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) and shall have (before the said court or some one of the judges thereof,) taken and subscribed, and produced to the said court, the following oath or affirmation, to wit: I, A. B. do solemnly swear or affirm, (as the case may be), that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled “ An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed : Nor until such person shall have delivered, or caused to be delivered, to the Secretary of War, a copy of the aforesaid schedule and oath or affirmation, certified by the clerk of the court to which the said schedule was delivered, together with the opinion of the said court, also certified by their clerk, of the value of the property contained in the said schedule: Provided, That, in every case in which the pensioner may be insane, or incapable of taking an oath, the court may receive the said schedule, without the aforesaid oath or affirmation, from the committee, or other person authorized to take care of such person.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the original schedule and oath or affirmation shall be filed in the clerk's office of the court to which the schedule and oath or affirmation aforesaid shall be exhibited; and any person who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be thereof convicted, shall suffer as for wilful and corrupt perjury.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, on the receipt of the copy of the schedule and oath or affirmation aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the War Department to cause to be struck from the list of pensioners under the said act the name of such person, in case the said person shall not, in his opinion, be in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country : Provided, That every person who shall have been placed on the pension list in consequence of disability from wounds received in the revolutionary war, and who shall have relinquished such pension in order to avail themselves of the benefit of the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, who, by virtue of this section, may be stricken from the pension list, shall be forthwith restored to the pension so relinquished.

The acts of March 18, 1818, and of May 1, 1820, were amended by the act of March 1, 1823, so as to authorize the Secretary of War to restore to the list such pensioners as had been or might be stricken off by the act of May 1, 1820, upon certain conditions. It provides also, that a judge might attend at the dwelling of such person as should be unable to appear in court, to make his schedule. It also provides that no pension should commence previous to the passage of the act, and other pensions only from the completion of the proof necessary to establish the claim.

AN ACT supplementary to the acts to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.

APROVED, MARCH 1, 1823. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to restore to the list of pensioners the name of any person who may have been, or hereafter shall be stricken therefrom, in pursuance of the act of Congress, passed the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled “An act in addition to an act, entitled 'An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,' passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, if such person, so stricken from the list of pensioners, has heretofore furnished, or hereafter shall furnish, evidence, in pursuance of the provisions of said act, to satisfy the Secretary of War that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country, and that he has not disposed of or transferred his property, or any portion thereof, with a view to obtain a pension.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any person, coming within the provisions of the acts to which this is supplementary, shall, by reason of bodily infirmity, be unable to attend in the court to make his schedule, and furnish the evidence by said acts required, it shall be lawful for any judge or justice of a court of record in the district, city, county, or borough, in which such person resides, to attend at his place of abode, and receive his schedule and oath or affirmation, and the said judge or justice shall certify that said applicant was, from bodily infirmity, unable to attend such court; which schedule and oath or affirmation, and certificate, shall, by said judge or justice, be produced in the court of which he is judge ; and the opinion of said court, of the value of the property contained in said schedule, shall be entered thereon, and certified by the clerk of said court; and such schedule shall be valid for all the purposes contemplated by the acts aforesaid.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no pension hereafter to be allowed on claims or schedules heretofore filed under the act or acts to which this act is a supplement, or under the provisions of this act, shall commence before the passage thereof; and all other pensions hereafter to be allowed, under the acts aforesaid, shall commence from the time of completing the proof,

REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONS.

ACT OF MAY 15, 1828.

THE act of 15th May, 1828, provides that each of the surviving officers of the revolutionary army in the continental line who were entitled to half-pay, under the resolve of 21st October, 1780, viz:

"IN CONGRESS, October 21, 1780.

"Resolved, That the officers who shall continue in the service to the end of the war, shall also be entitled to half-pay during life, to commence from the time of their reduction."

Shall receive full pay according to their rank in the line, not to exceed the full pay of a captain, from the 3d March, 1826, during his natural life. Moneys received by officers entitled under this act, since 3d March, 1826, to be deducted and all

other pensions to cease.