United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 46
Chap. XLVI.—An Act to continue the office of commissioner of pensions.
Office continued for two years.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the office of commissioner of pensions shall be, and the same is hereby, continued for the term of two years, from and after the fourth day of March next, and no longer.
Commissioner to be appointed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a commissioner of pensions 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, such duties in relation to the various pension laws, as may be prescribed by the President.
Salary, and the franking privilege.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioner shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, and he shall also have the privilege of franking.
Duties transferred from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of War.
1828, ch. 53.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the duties heretofore required of, and performed by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the provisions of the act approved on the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, granting allowances to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, and in relation to Virginia claims for revolutionary services and deficiency of commutation, be and the same are hereby transferred to, and made the duties of the Secretary of War, from and after the first day of June next.
Approved, March 3, 1835.