United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 2
II. A Resolution in relation to the execution of the act supplementary to the “Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.”
Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.
Revolutionary pensioners.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in the execution of the act supplementary to the “Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution,” approved June seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, whenever it shall be made to appear that any applicant for a pension under said act entered the army of the revolution, in pursuance of a contract with the government, made previous to the eleventh day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and continued in service until after that period, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to compute the period of any such applicant’s service, from the time he then entered the army, and until the date of the definitive treaty of peace, and to allow him a pension accordingly.
Approved, March 2, 1833.