United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 85
Chap. LXXXV.—An Act to provide for the payment of certain pensioners in the States of Virginia and Ohio.
A pension agency to be established at Wheeling.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to establish a pension agency at the city of Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, for the payment of pensioners of the United States resident in the counties of Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Tyler, Wood, Lewis, Harrison, Randolph, Preston, and Monongalia, in Virginia, and Belmont, Jefferson, Guernsey, Harrison, and Monroe, in the State of Ohio:Proviso. Provided, That the establishment of such agency can be made and continued without charge to the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to make the necessary arrangement for the payment of said pensioners.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Approved, June 7, 1836.