United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Resolution 7
VII. Resolution requiring annual reports to be made to Congress, in relation to applications for pensions.
Returns of applicants, for pensions to be made to Congress, &c.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the heads of department, who may severally [be] charged with the administration of the pension laws of the United States of America, be, and they hereby are, respectively, directed and required, as soon as may be after the opening of each session of Congress, to present to the Senate and House of Representatives, a several list of such persons, whether revolutionary, invalid, or otherwise, as shall have made application for a pension, or an increase of pension, and as, in their opinion, respectively, ought to be placed upon the pension roll, or otherwise provided for, and for doing which they have no sufficient power or authority, with the names and residence of such persons, the capacity in which they served, the degree of relief proposed, and a brief statement of the grounds thereof, to the end that Congress may consider the same.
Approved, May 29, 1830.