for each person on board any ship of an enemy at the commencement of an engagement, which shall be sunk or destroyed by any ship or vessel belonging to the United States of equal or inferior force, the same to be divided among the officers and crew in the same manner as prize money.

SEC. 8. And be it furthe renacted, That every officer, seaman, or marine, disabled in the line of his duty, shall be entitled to receive for life, or during his disability, a pension from the United States, according to the nature and degree of his disability, not exceeding one-half his monthly pay.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all money accruing, or which has already accrued, to the United States from the sale of prizes, shall be and remain forever a fund for the payment of pensions and half pay, should the same be hereafter granted, to the officers and seamen who may be entitled to receive the same, and if the said fund shall be insufficient for the purpose, the public faith is hereby pledged to make up the deficiency; but if it should be more than sufficient, the surplus shall be applied to the making of further provision for the comfort of the disabled officers, seamen, and marines, and for such as, though not disabled, may merit by their bravery, or long and faithful services, the gratitude of their country.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the said fund shall be under the management and direction of the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of War, for the time being, who are hereby authorized to receive any sums to which the United States may be entitled from the

sale of prizes, and employ and invest the same, with the interest arising therefrom, in any manner which a majority of them may deem most advantageous. And it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to lay before Congress annually, in the first week of their session, a minute statement of their proceedings relative to the management of said fund.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the act passed the second day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, entitled

An act for the government of the navy of the United States," from and after the first day of June next, shall be, and hereby is, repealed.

APPROVED, JANUARY 20, 1813.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any officer of the navy or marines shall be killed or die, by reason of a wound received in the line of his duty, leaving 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, which allowance shall continue for and during the term of five 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 the remainder shall go to the child or children of the said deceased officer: Provided, That such half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children; and the money required for this purpose shall be paid

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out of the navy pension fund, under the direction of the commissioners of that fund.

APPROVED, MARCH 14, 1814.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any officer, seaman, or marine, serving on board of any private armed ship or vessel, bearing a commission of letter of marque, shall die, or shall have died since the eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by reason of a wound received in the line of his duty, leaving 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 placed on the pension list by the Secretary of the Navy, who shall allow to such widow, child or children, half the monthly pension to which the rank of the deceased would have entitled him, for the highest rate of disability, under "An act regulating pensions to persons on board private armed ships;" which allowance shall continue for the term of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of the term of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of the deceased: Provided, That the half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children. And the several pensions hereby directed shall be paid, by the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, out of the fund provided by the seventeenth section of an act entitled "An act concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods," and from no other.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any seaman or marine belonging to the navy of the United States shall die, or if any officer, seaman, or marine, belonging to the navy of the United States shall have died, since the eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight [hundred] and twelve, by reason of a wound received in the line of his duty, leaving 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, which allowance shall continue for the term of five 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 term, shall go to the child or children of the deceased: Provided, That such half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children. And the money required for this purpose shall be paid out of the navy pension fund, under the direction of the commissioners of that fund.

APPROVED, APRIL 16, 1818.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in every case where a person has been put on the pension list, or granted a certificate of pension, by virtue of the first section of an act passed the fourth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States," the Secretary of the Navy be, and he

is hereby, authorized, at the expiration of the term of five years, for which any pension certificate shall have been granted as aforesaid, to allow the full monthly pension to which the rank of the deceased would have entitled him for the highest rate of disability, and that such pension shall continue to such person for the further term of five years: Provided, That such pension shall cease on the death of such widow, child, or children.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any officer, seaman, or marine, shall have died since the eighteenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, in consequence of an accident or casualty, which occurred while in the line of his duty on board a private armed vessel, leaving a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to place such widow, child, or children, on the pension list, and allow to such widow, child, or children, the same monthly pension as if the deceased had died by reason of wounds received in the line of his duty: Provided, That all moneys paid by virtue of this act shall be paid out of the privateer pension fund, and no other.

APPROVED, MARCH 3, 1819.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in all cases where provision has been made by law for five years' half pay to the widows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, who were killed in battle or died of wounds received in battle, or who died in the naval service of the