to which they shall be respectively entitled, agreeably to the before-mentioned certificates; the said payments to be deducted from the respective quotas of the States, for the year on which they shall be made: provided, that no officer who has accepted his commutation for half pay, shall be entered on the list of invalids, unless he shall have first returned his commutation.

6. That any State may form such invalids under the aforesaid description, as are citizens of the same, and are capable of garrison duty, into corps, to be employed in guarding military stores, aiding the police, or otherwise, as the State may direct.

7. That when invalids shall be formed into corps, there be quarterly returns, comprehending the pay, age, disability, regiment, ship, or corps, to which they severally belonged, made out and signed by their commanding officer, and transmitted to such person or persons as the State shall direct, that their pay may be ordered according to the said return.

8. That all invalids, as well those formed into corps as those who are not, shall, annually, apply themselves to a magistrate of the county in which they reside, or may be stationed, and take the following oath, viz: "A. B. came before me, one of the justices for the county of in the State of and made oath, that he was examined by, appointed by the said State (or Commonwealth) for that purpose, obtained a certificate, (or had his certificate examined and countersigned,) setting forth that he had served in that he was disabled by and that he

now lives in the

and in the county of

9. That the affidavits, drawn according to the above form, and dated and attested by a magistrate, be sent, by the said magistrate, to the person or persons appointed by the State to receive and record the same, and that a counterpart of the affidavit be preserved by the person taking it, to be exhibited to such persons as shall be appointed by the State to pay the invalids.

[Certain claims exhibited after the time specified, barred, &c.]

RESOLUTION IN CONGRESS, NOVEMBER 2, 1785.

On a report of the Board of Treasury, to whom was referred a letter of the 24th October, from J. Pierce, commissioner of army accounts,

Resolved, That all persons having claims for services performed in the military department, be directed to exhibit the same for liquidation to the commissioner of army accounts, on or before the first day of August, ensuing the date hereof; and that all claims, under the description above-mentioned, which may be

exhibited after that period, shall forever thereafter be precluded from adjustment or allowance, and that the commissioner of army accounts give public notice of this resolve in all the States, for the term of six months.

[17.]

[Laws of the U. S., vol. 1, page 692.]

[Invalid officers permitted to return the amount of their commutation in other securities.] RESOLUTION-IN CONGRESS, SEPTEMBER 14, 1786.

On a report of the commissioner of army accounts, to whom was referred a memorial of James Grigg, late a captain in the service of the United States,

Resolved, That invalid officers be permitted to return the amount of their commutation in other securities of the United States, where they have parted with their own; provided, the same shall be of equal amount, and bearing the same interest.

[ 18. ]

[Journals of Congress, 1787, vol. 4, page 757.]

[Officers previous to the receipt of pension to deposite certificate that no balance is due from them.]

RESOLUTION-IN CONGRESS, JULY 12, 1787.

On a report of the Board of Treasury,

Resolved, That all officers in the line of the late army, who may be entitled to pensions, in pursuance of the acts of Congress in that behalf made, shall, previous to the receipt of such pension, deposite with the proper officers appointed to discharge the same in the State in which they reside, a certificate from the commissioner of army accounts, purporting that no balance is due from the claimant to the United States.

[19.]

[Laws of the U. S., vol. 1, page 692.]

[Certain claims not presented as specified, barred.]

RESOLUTION IN CONGRESS, JULY 23, 1787.

On motion of Mr. Dane, seconded by Mr. Holton,

Resolved, That all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, pertaining to the late commissary's, quartermaster's, hospital, clothier's, or marine department, shall exhibit particular abstracts of such claims, to the proper commissioner appointed to settle the accounts of those departments, within

eight months from the date hereof; and all persons having other unliquidated claims against the United States, shall exhibit a particular abstract thereof to the comptroller of the Treasury of the United States within one year from the date hereof; and all accounts not exhibited as aforesaid shall be precluded from settlement or allowance.

[20.]

[Laws of the U. S., vol. 2, page 355—a note.]

[Each State shall have credit with the United States for invalid pensions.]

RESOLUTION IN CONGRESS, JUNE 11, 1788.

On the report of a committee consisting of Mr. Dane, Mr. Hamilton, and Mr. Brown, to whom was referred a petition of John Buchanan, and other invalids, and who were ordered to take into consideration the invalid establishment,

Resolved, That each State shall have credit in its general account with the United States, for such sums as became due to invalids before the first day of January, 1782, and which have been or shall be paid to them by the State; and for such sums as became due to invalids from the said first day of January, 1782, inclusive, to the first day of January, 1788, and which have been, or shall be, paid to them by any State, the State shall have credit in the existing specie requisitions of Congress; and for sums that may so become due after January, 1788, and be paid by any State, the State shall have credit in the specie requisitions of Congress which may hereafter be made.

Resolved, That no person shall be entitled to a pension as an invalid who has not, or shall not before the expiration of six months from this time, make application therefor, and produce the requisite certificates and evidence to entitle him thereto.*

Other resolutions of the old Congress will be found under the head of Bounty Lands, proper-together with the "Ordinance of 1785," and the resolution, of 1787these resolutions being more appropriate to the bounty land division of this work.—Eds.

MILITARY PENSION LAWS

OF

THE UNITED STATES.

WITH OCCASIONAL ADMIXTURE OF NAVY PENSION AND BOUNTY LAND PROVISIONS.

[1.]

[Laws of the U. S., vol. 2, page 73.]

CHAP. 24. An act providing for the payment of the invalid pensioners of the United

States.*

Military pensions granted and paid by the States, to be paid by the United States for the space of a year.

APPROVED, SEPTEMBER 29, 1789.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the military pensions which have been granted and paid by the States, respectively, in pursuance of the acts of the United States in Congress assembled, to the invalids who were wounded and disabled during the late war, shall be continued and paid by the United States, from the fourth day of March last, for the space of one year, under such regulations as the President of the United States may direct.

[2.]

[Laws of the U. S., vol. 2, page 99.]

CHAP. 37. An act for regulating the military establishment of the United States.† 1. One thousand two hundred and sixteen non-commissioned officers, privates, &c., for three years. 2. Height, five feet six inches; and age, eighteen to forty-six years. 3. One regiment of infantry, and a battalion of artillery; Composition of the regiment of infantry; Composition of the battalion of artillery. 11. Pensions to invalids: Proviso; as to amount of pension: Proviso; as to inferior disabilities. 12. Officers, prirates, &c., to take an oath: Form of the oath.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioned officers hereinafter mentioned, and the number of

Expired, 4th March, 1790: Supplied by act of July 16, 1790, chap. 54, post.

† Repealed by act of 3d March, 1795, sec. 18, chap. 285, post., and supplied by the

same act.