Chapter CLIX. to amend “An act authorizing the Secretary of War to establish a pension agency in the town of Decatur in the State of Alabama, and to provide for the payment of certain pensioners in the said town of Decatur.”July 5, 1838
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Chap. CLIX.— An Act to amend “An act authorizing the Secretary of War to establish a pension agency in the town of Decatur in the State of Alabama, and to provide for the payment of certain pensioners in the said town of Decatur.”July 5, 1838. Act of June 27, 1834, ch. 91. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of Sec. War empowered to remove pension agency at Decatur to Huntsville Ala.
War be, and he is hereby, authorized, if in his opinion necessary, to remove and establish said pension agency in the town of Huntsville, Alabama; and, in the event of said removal, the pensioners described in said act shall be paid in Huntsville. Approved, July 5, 1838.