United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/10th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 4
Chap. IV.—An Act authorizing the payment of certain pensions by the Secretary of War at the seat of government.
Pensions to be paid at Washington where agents to pay pensions have not been appointed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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 either of the United States, or the territories thereof, in which there hath not been appointed an agent for the payment of pensions, shall be paid at the seat of 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 at 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, 1807.