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Sec. 9. .fnG be il further enacted, That, when
ever any of said officers has received money oI the
United States, as pensoner. since the third day
OF March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty
six. aforesaid, the received shall be deduct
cd from what said officer would otherwise, be
titled to, under the first section 1T this act and
every pension to which said officer is now entitled,
shall cease after the passage Of this act.


Sec. s. find be it further enccted, That every
surviving non commissioned officer, musician, or
private in SAID army, who enlisted therein for and
during the war, and continued in ITS service until
its termination, aud thereby became entitled to
ceye reward Of eighty dcllars. under resolve
of Congress, passed May fifteenth, seventeen hun
dred and seventy eight, shall be entitled to receive
his full monthly pay in said service, ont Of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated;
to begin on the third day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty six, and to continue du-
ring his natural life: Provided. That no non com
missioned officer. musician, or private, in said ar
my. vino is now on the pension LIST of the United
States, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act.


Sec 4. And BE- it further enacted, That the paw
allowed by this act shall, under the direction Of the
Secretary of the Treasury, be paid to the Officer
or Soldier entitled thereto, or TO their authorized
attorney at such places and Ga rs the Secretary
may direct; and that no foreign Officer shall be
entitled to said pay nor shall any Officer or Sol
uier T1CclVe Tue SAINT, Uil'ii ne iutiial u salu
Secretary satisfactory evidence that he is entitled
to the same in conformity to the provisions of this
act; and the pay allowed by this act shall not in
any way be transferable, or liable to attachment,
levy, seizure, By any legal process whatever.
but shall enuie wholly to the personal benefit Of
the Officer or Soldier entitled to the same by this
act


Sec. s. -9ai be it further enacted, That 50 mrai
OF said pay as accrued by the provisions OF this act
before the third day of March. eighteen hund ed
and twenty eight, shall he paid to the Officers and
Soldiers entitled to the same, as soon as may be
in the manner and under the provisions before men
toned and the pay which SHALL accrue after said
day, shall be paid m.annually, in like manner
end under the same provisions.


/ A STEVENSON,
Speaker CT the House of Representatives,
I s. SMITH,


| President Of the Senate pro temporc.
| .Approvea-1eh May 1898.


! JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.