Chapter IV. *authorizing the payment of certain pensions by the Secretary of War at the seat of government.* Jan. 7, 1809. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Pensions to be paid at Washington where agents to pay pensions have not bee
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Chap. IV.— An Act *authorizing the payment of certain pensions by the Secretary of War at the seat of government.* Jan. 7, 1809. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Pensions to be paid at Washington where agents to pay pensions have not been appointed. That every pension or arrearage of pension that shall be due on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, or that may thereafter become due to any officer or soldier residing in cither of the United States, or the territories 505 506 TENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 5. 1809. thereof, in which there hath not been appointed an agent for the payment of pensions, shall be paid at the seat of the government of the United States, by the secretary for the war department, and the name of the pensioner shall, on his application to the Secretary al War, be transferred from the books of the state in which it was originally enregistered to a register, to be opened for that purpose at the war office of the United States. Approved, January 7, 1809.