United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 153
Chap. CLIII.—An Act to provide for paying certain pensions at Tuscaloosa, in the State of Alabama.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. War authorized to establish a pension agency at Tuscaloosa. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to establish a pension agency at Tuscaloosa, in the State of Alabama, for the payment of pensioners of the United States resident in the counties of Pickens, Sumter, Green, Marengo, Perry, Bibb, Tuscaloosa, Jefferson, Walker, Fayette, Shelby, Randolph, and Talladega, in the State of Alabama:Proviso. Provided, That no additional expense shall be incurred in the establishment of said pension agency.
Sec. Treas. to make arrangement for said payment.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.
Approved, June 28, 1838.