Pensions under the act of January 27,
1814,

No person shall receive a pension unless

III. 95

Widows and children of officers and
men who have died in the naval ser-
vice entitled to certain pensions, (ob-
solete,)
An act to amend and explain an act
giving pensions to the orphans and
widows of persons slain in the public
or private armed vessels of the United
States,

III. 394

III. 395

III. 373
Pensions to widows and children of sol-
diers and militia volunteers, rangers,
and sea-fencibles, (obsolete,)
Relinquishment of title to bounty lands
entitles children of regular soldiers to
three dollars per month,
An act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service
of the United States during the revo-
lutionary war,
An act in addition to "An act giving
pensions to the orphans and widows
of persons slain in the public armed
vessels of the United States," - III. 427
Widows and orphans of militia called

III. 410

into service against the Seminole In-
dians entitled to pensions,
III. 459
Five years' additional half-pay given to
widows and children of officers, sea-
men, and marines killed in battle, or
who died in the naval service during
the last war,

III. 502

An act regulating payments to invalid
pensioners,
III. 514

Evidence of continued disability to be

III. 569

III. 570

he exhibit a schedule of his whole es-
tate and income,
The Secretary at War may strike from
the pension list the names of persons
who in his opinion are not in indigent
circumstances, &c., ..
The act of April 10, 1806, relating to
pensions to persons who were disabled
by wounds received in the revolution-
ary war, revived, (expired,) - III. 596
The act of March 3, 1819, which re-
quires evidence of continued disabili
ty, &c., not affected by this act, III. 597
Pension to commence when testimony is
completed,
III. 597
The acts of April 10, 1806, chap. 25,
April 25, 1812, and May 15, 1820, re-
vived and continued in force until
February 4, 1828, -

The term of half-pay pensions to widows,
&c., of officers who died in the public
service, extended, (expired,) IV. 4
Act of March 3, 1817, chap. 60, repealed,
IV. 4
Term of pensions to persons disabled,
and widows and orphans of persons
slain, or who have died from casual-
ties on board of private armed ships
of the United States during the late
IV. 18
war, extended, (obsolete,) -
The provisions of the act of May 4,
1822, chap. 48, granting pensions, ex-
tended to volunteers and officers en-
gaged against the Seminole Indians,
IV. 70

Provision for the payment of pensions to
the widows and children of pension-
ers in certain cases, -
Testimony regarding wounds received

IV. 350

IV. 350

IV. 355

IV. 371

IV. 426

in the revolutionary war,
Appropriations for the payment of revo-
lutionary pensioners for 1829, (obso-
lete,)
Appropriations for revolutionary and in-
valid pensions for 1830,
Invalid pensions not to be subject to de-
duction from the allowances to officers
and soldiers of the revolution, by the
second section of the act of May 15,
1828, chap. 53,
Reports of applications for pensions to
be made to Congress,
IV. 430
Appropriations for revolutionary and in-
valid pensions, -
Appropriations for revolutionary and
other pensions for the year 1832, IV. 497
All who have served two years in the
continental line to receive full pay ac-
cording to their rank, not to exceed
captain's pay,

IV. 433

IV. 529

Service of not less than six months to
receive pay in proportion, -

IV. 530

No foreign officer to receive the benefit

of this act,

IV. 530

to widows for five years,
Provisions of this act extended to wi-
dows of all those who have died from
wounds received in the late war, IV. 550
The act of March 3, 1819, chap. 80, re-
pealed,

IV. 599

IV. 600

The third section of the act of May 15,
1828, relating to deductions on pay-
ments, not to apply to pensioners
under the act,
The duties relating to pensions which
devolve on the Secretary of the Trea-
sury by the act of June 7, 1832, chap.
126, transferred to the Secretary of
War,
IV. 605
The time of imprisonment of a prisoner
at war shall be computed as part of
the period of service, to entitle a per-
son to the benefits of the act of June
7, 1832, chap. 126,
IV. 608
Appropriations for revolutionary and
other pensions for the year 1833, IV. 610
Invalid pensions not embraced in the act
of June 7, 1836,

IV. 612

Appropriations for revolutionary pen-
sions for the year 1834,
A pension agency established at Deca-
tur, Alabama, and certain pensioners
to be paid there,
Appropriations for the payment of revo-
lutionary and other pensioners of the
United States for the year 1835, IV. 748
The laws authorizing the Bank of the
United States to pay pensions repeal-
ed, and pensions to be paid according
to the directions of the Secretary at
War, -
V. 6
Appropriations for the payment of revo-
lutionary pensioners, -
V.
Limitation of the denomination of bank-
notes to be paid for pensions, and all
bank-notes paid to be equivalent to spe-
cie, and convertible into gold and sil-
ver without loss when paid,
V.
The act of January 1828, chap. 2, to
prevent defalcations on the part of the
disbursing agents of the government,
shall not apply to the pension of any
pensioner of the United States, V. 31
A pension agency to be established at
Wheeling, Virginia,
V. 34
A pension agency to be established at
Pulaski, Tennessee,

Five years' half-pay to widows or or-
phans of those who have died in the
service of the United States since
April 20, 1818,
Benefit of the act of June 7, 1832, ex-
tended,
V. 128
The benefits of the act of July 1836,
chap. 362, not to be withheld from
any widow who has been allowed a
pension, in consequence of her mar-
riage subsequent to the allowance of
a pension to her,
V. 187
Widows of persons who continued in
service till November 3, 1783, and
were married before that day, entitled
to the benefits of the third section of
the act of July 1836,
V. 187
Appropriations for revolutionary and
other pensioners for 1838, . V. 214
All money, after having remained in the
hands of the pension agent unclaimed
for eight months, to be repaid to the
Treasury of the United States. To
be paid to the Treasurer of the Uni-
ted States by draft from the Commis-
sioner of Pensions,
V. 226

Pensions to certain widows, under the
pension acts, to be continued for five
years,

V. 647
Appropriations for the payment of revo
lutionary and other pensioners for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1845, V. 656
On application to any pension agent in
Kentucky, the name of the pensioner
shall be transferred to the agency in
Cincinnati,

.

V. 657

V. 680

V. 723
V. 724

Act of 1813, chap. 102, extended for four
years from March 4, 1844, -
Widows entitled under the act of 1838,
chap. 189, to have the benefit of this
act,
V. 680
Appropriations for the payment of revo
lutionary and other pensioners for the
year ending June 30, 1846,
Widows' pensions limited,
Resolution that the act of April 30, 1844,
chap. 15, shall not be construed to
affect the claims of widows whose ap.
plication for pensions or arrears of
pensions, at the time of the passing of
this resolution, had been made and
filed in the office of the Commissioner
of Pensions,

Pension Agents and Agencies.

Act of April 24, 1816, sec. 4,
An additional agent for paying pensions
to be appointed in the state of Ten-
III. 521

nessee,

A subscription for seventy copies of Pe-
ters' Condensed Reports authorized, IV. 495
Philadelphia.

An act to fix the limits of the port of en-
try and delivery for the district of
Philadelphia,
. III. 662
Cession of jurisdiction of the navy yard
at Philadelphia to the United States,

Port of Philadelphia extended,
Piankeshaw Indians.

.

IV. 245
IV. 715

V. 796

VII. 77

Treaty with the Piankeshaws,

VII. 83

III. 297

Treaty with the Piankeshaws,

VII. 100

Agents for paying pensions to give bond,

with sureties,

Appropriation for building a pier at the
northern extremity of Winnebago lake,
V. 330

To be regulated by the laws existing in
the several states. Act of August 7,
1789, sect. 4,
I. 54
Exempt from militia duty.-See Militia,
Pilots, when licensed by either state,
may be employed on the waters which
are the boundaries of the states, V. 153
Notes of the cases in the courts of the
United States as to pilots and pilotage,

V. 153

Persons committing robbery, &c., on the
high seas,

III. 600

Persons engaged in any piratical enter-
prise,

III. 600

Persons landing on a foreign shore to
scize negroes, &c.,
Persons confining or detaining negroes
on board of any vessel with intent to
make them slaves,

III. 601

III. 601

.

III. 720

Notes of cases decided, arising under this
act,
III. 601
The President authorized to purchase or
construct vessels for immediate ser-
vice, to suppress piracy,
The act of March 3, 1819, chap. 76, to
punish piracy, continued in force, III. 721
The District Courts, in the district where
the Circuit Courts are holden, to have
cognisance of all cases arising under
the act of May 15, 1820, chap. 113, to
punish the crime of piracy, &c., III. 789
See Crimes.

Pitkin's Commercial Statistics.

A subscription for 500 copies of Pitkin's
Commercial Statistics authorized, III. 464
Distribution of Seybert's Annals and
Pitkin's Statistics,

Plaster of Paris.

III. 537

Foreign vessels may enter and unlade
their cargoes at Middletown and Ply.
mouth,

Bath made a port of entry for vessels ar-
riving from the Cape of Good Hope,
Belfast made a port of entry,

III. 464

III. 464

Philadelphia to be the sole port of entry
and delivery for the district of Phila-
delphia,

III. 662

The district of Bristol to be known as

the district of Bristol and Warren, and
Bristol and Warren to be one port of
entry,

III. 662
The district of Blakely established, III. 663
Entries may be made of foreign ships

or vessels and their cargoes at Fair-
field, Connecticut,

IV. 206
The towns of Marshfield and Rhinebeck
Landing made ports of delivery, IV. 237
A collection district established at Mag-
nolia, in Florida, to be called the dis-
trict of St. Mark's,
Port of entry changed from Nova Iberia
to Franklin, Louisiana,
IV. 392

Plymouth Beach.

Newark, New Jersey, a port of entry,

IV. 715
Detroit collection district extended, IV. 716
The custom-house at Frenchman's bay
to be removed to Ellsworth, in Maine,
IV. 716
Ports of Sippican and Mattapoisett, in
Massachusetts, to be known as ports
under these names within the collec
tion district of New Bedford, and the
vessels belonging to these places to be
described as belonging to the respect-
ive places,
V. 381
The port of delivery and the office of
Surveyor of the Customs at Currituck
Inlet, in North Carolina, to be abolish-
ed,
V. 436
Robbinston, in the state of Maine, to be
a port of delivery,
V. 609
Port of entry in the district of Passama-
quoddy, in the state of Maine, V. 658

Franking privilege to members of Con-
gress, to Presidents of the United
States, Mrs. Madison, and Mrs. Har-
rison,
V. 733, 739
Consuls of the United States authorized
to pay the postage on letters detained
for postage in foreign countries,
See Franking Privilege-Post-Office.
Postmaster-General.

Duties of the Postmaster-General,
Increase of his salary,-

See Post-Office.

Post-Office.

V. 750

IV. 238
IV. 239

Notes of decisions of the Circuit Court
of Pennsylvania on the 9th section of
the act,
IV. 104
Notes of decisions of the courts of the
United States on the 22d and 23d sec-
tions of the act, -
IV. 108, 109
Repeal of part of the act of March 3,
1821, relating to the mail from Vin-
cennes, in Indiana, by Vandalia, to St.
Louis,
IV. 139
An act amendatory of the act regulating
the post-office department,
IV. 238
An additional building to be erected,
and five additional clerks to be em-
ployed,
. IV. 303
Statement of allowances made to mail
contractors, and a list of the officers
of the Bank of the United States and
its branches to be published in the
Register,
- IV. 608
An act to change the organization of the
post-office department, and to provide
more effectually for the settlement of
the accounts thereof,
. V. 80

Regulations of the post-office depart-
ment, and duties of the postmasters
and auditors,
V. 80
Settlement of the accounts of the post-
office department,

V. 82

Compensation of assistant postmasters-