Congress of the United States: AT THE SECOND SESSION, Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. An ACT further to provide 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 former acts of the United States in Congress assembled, and such, as by acts passed in the present Session of Congress, are, or shall be declared to be due to 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. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, July the 16th, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True Copy.) Th Jefferson Secretary of State. [The first pension bill. Pensions were previously paid by the individual States G—]