[From The Freeman's Journal; or, The North American Intelligencer, Philadelphia, October 21, 1789.]
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT providing for the payment of the invalid pensioners of the United States.
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 4th day of March last for the space of one year under such regulations as the President of the United States may direct.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS,
Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.
Approved, September 29, 1789.
Go. WASHINGTON,
President of the United States.
WAR OFFICE, October 13, 1789.
In pursuance of the above-recited law, information is hereby given to all the invalid pensioners of the United States that the amount of one year's pension from the 4th day of March last will be paid to them or their attorneys, respectively, in two equal payments, the first of which will be made on the 5th day of March, 1790, and the second on the 5th day of June following, at such places in each State and by such persons as shall hereafter in due season be publicly made known.