CHAPTER LXXXVII. AN ACT to alter the time for the next meeting of Congress. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That af ter the adjournment of the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the first Monday of November next. NATH. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives, STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, President of the Senate, pro tempore, March 3, 1803. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXXXVIII. AN ACT in addition to the act, intituled" An Act regulating the grants of land appro priated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia." BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That Samuel Rogers, one of the claimants under the act intituled "An act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia," shall be entitled to two thousand two hundred and forty acres of land to be located in the manner and within the boundaries of the tract designated by the act to which this act is a supplement, and shall receive a patent for the same in the manner directed by the said last mentioned act. NATH. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 3, 1803. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXXXIX. AN ACT to prolong the continuance of the Mint at Philadelphia. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Act entituled "An act concerning the Mint," approved March 3d, 1801, is hereby continued in force and operation for the term of five years after the fourth day of March next. NATH MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, President of the Senate. pro tempore. March 3, 1803, APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER XC. AN ACT to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, during the revolutionary war. titled to be placed on the pension list. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Persons enRepresentatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, That any commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, soldier, or seaman, disabled in the actual service of the United States, by wounds received during the revolutionary war, and who did not desert the said service, shall be intitled to be placed on the pension list of the United States during life: Provid- Proviso. ed, that in substantiating the claims thereto, the rules and regulations following, shall be complied with: First. All evidence shall be taken on oath er affirmation before the judge of the dis- Evidence; to be taken. before whom trict in which such invalid reside, or before some person specially authorised by commission from the said judge. Nature of the Nature of the Requisite vice. Secondly. The evidence relative to any claimant, must prove decisive disability to have been the effect of known wounds received while in the actual line of his duty, in the service of the United States, during the revolutionary war: that this evidence must be the affidavits of the commanding officer or surgeon of the ship, regiment, corps, or company in which such claimant served, or two other credible witnesses to the same effect, setting forth the time and place of such known wound. Thirdly. Every claimant shall be examined on oath or affirmation, by some respectable physician or surgeon, to be authorised by commission from the said judge, who shall report in writing his opinion, upon oath or affirmation, of the nature of said disability, and in what degree it prevents the claimant from obtaining his livelihood. Fourthly. Every claimant must produce time of ser- evidence of his having continued in the service of the United States, to the conclusion of the war in seventeen hundred and eighty-three, or being left out of the service in consequence of his disability, or in consequence of some derangement of the army, and of the mode of life or employment he has since followed, and of the original existence and continuance of his disability. Cause of deferring the application to be stated. Fifthly. Every claimant must shew satisfactory cause to the said judge of the district, why he did not apply for a pension in conformity to laws heretofore passed, before the expiration of the limitation thereof. Copies of the evidence, &c. the claimants. to be given to Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said judge of the district or person by him commissioned as aforesaid, shall give to each claimant a transcript of the evidence and proceedings had, respecting his claim; and shall also transmit a list of such claims, accompanied by the evidence herein directed, to the secretary of the department of war, in order that the same may be exam. ined, and if correct, agreeably to the intent who are to and meaning of this act, the said applicants be placed on the pension are thenceforth to be placed on the pension list." list of the United States: Provided that in Proviso, no case a pension shall commence before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and three, except so far as to offset the com. mutation of half pay received by such officer, in which case the proper officer is to calculate the pension from the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-four. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Estimation of the pensions allowed by this act shall be esti- the pensions. mated in the manner following, that is to say a full pension to a commissioned officer shall be considered the one half of his month. ly pay as by law established, and the proportions less than a full pension shall be the like proportions of half pay. And a full pension to a non-commissioned officer, private, soldier or seamen, shall be five dol. lars per month, and the proportions less than a full pension, shall be the like proportions of five dollars per month, but no pension of a commissioned officer shall be calculated at a higher rate than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel. |