Chapter IV. *to continue the office of commissioner of Pensions, and to transfer the pension business, heretofore transacted in the Navy Department, to that office*.(*a*)(*a*) See notes to act of July 10, 1832, chap. 194, for the acts relating to the navy pension fund
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Chap. IV.— An Act *to continue the office of commissioner of Pensions, and to transfer the pension business, heretofore transacted in the Navy Department, to that office*.(*a*)(*a*) See notes to act of July 10, 1832, chap. 194, for the acts relating to the navy pension fund. March 4, 1840. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the office ofOffice of Com. of Pensions continued. Commissioner of Pensions shall be and the same is hereby continued, until the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That a Commissioner of PensionsCommissioner to be appointed—his duties. shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and that he shall execute, under the direction of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, such duties in relation to the various pension laws as may be prescribed by the President. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the said Commissioner shallSalary.370TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 5, 6. 1840. receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, and shall have the privilege of sending and receiving letters and packets by mail free of postage. Sec. 4. Pension business transferred to office Com. of Pensions.*And be it further enacted*, That the pension business heretofore transacted in the Navy Department, shall be transferred to the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, and that the clerk now employed in that business be also transferred to that office.
Approved, March 4, 1840.