Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-04-29
From the Nashville Banner.

FROM the NASHVILLE banner
We are indebted to the Hon. JOHN BELL, for
copy of the following regulations of the Pen
son Office, which we this day lay before our
readers:
PENSION OFFICE, March %, 1858.
The following regulations, approved by the Secre-
tary Of the Interior have been adopted for carrying
into effect the provisions of the Act of Sd February
1853, entitled IAN act to continue half pay to certain
widows and orphans"
]. Under provisions of the 1st section of this act,
all widows and orphans who granted and allow
ed five years half pay by provisions Of the act Of 4th
July 1885, extended by the act of 2lst july 1913,
and further extended by the act of 22d February,
1S49 entitled to continuance Of said half pay
for further period of FIVE years, to commence at
the expiration of the half pay provided for by the
aforesaid acts under the restrictions and limitations
in the acts specified.
To obtain these benefits the applicant must make
declaration, under oath, before magistrate in
the county where the declarant resides, before
some other person qualified to administer Oaths,
(which declaration must be duly authenticated
cordng to the form appended hereto marked A.
The official character of the magistrate must be
duly certified by the proper officer under his seal of
Office and the magistrate, or other person, (qualli
fed to administer Oaths,) must certify that the de-
clarant is personally known to him.
1t will be observed that in the event of the death
or marriage of the widow, and where the appliea-
sixteen years Of age the half is not continued after
such child children shall have passed the age of
sixteen.
2. Under the last proviso Of the lst section, the
widows and officers, commissioned officers, must
cians and privates of the regulars, militia and vol
unteers of the war of 1912, who were not entitled
by the provisions of the act of 10th April 1916, and
also in the various Indian wars since 1890, who re-
manned to the date of their death in the service of
the United States, or who having received an honor
hoo ,l,o:-
TO their usual place Of residence Of wounds received
from disease contracted while in the line of their
duty, entitled to receive half the monthly pay to
which the deceased was entitled at the time of his
death, or at the time of receiving such wound or
contracting such disease for and during the term of
five years, to commence at the time of completiL =
the evidence in said case.
In case there be no such widow, or in case of her
marriage or DEATH before the expiration of said FIVE
years, the half pay such part thereof remains
at the time of her marriage, decease will 90 to
the minor heirs of the deceased.
In application for these benefits, the party must
make declaration in writing before Court of Re-
cord, according TO the form appended hereto marked
B. and must produce proof of the service of the de-
ceased officer soldier the time of his death, and
that it occasioned by wounds received, or from
disease contracted while in service in the line of his
duty.
If the applicant be a widow, she must prove the
legality of her marriage, and that she has remained
If the applicant be widow, she must prove the
legality Of her marriage, and that she has remained
widow since the death of her husband.
IF the applicant be minor child of the deceased
officer or soldier he must prove the marriage of his
parents, their death, and his minority The fact of
the marriage must be established by the certificate
of the person who joined them in wedock-record
proof the testimony of respectable persons having
knowledge of that fact.
8. Under the provisions of the 81 section, the
of Ill o0,n
musicians and privates of the revolutionary army,
who were married subsequent to Janury, A. D. 1900,
are entitled to pension in the same manner as
those who were married before that date.
In application for the benefit of these provisions,
the party must prove the service of the officer or sol
der in whose right she claims; her marriage with
such officer soldier, and his death.
In case such officer soldier has received pen
sion in his lifetime, reference to the evidence field
in his application will be sufficient to prove the
vice.
Every applicant will make q declaration according
to the form hereto appended, marked c, before a
Court of Record setting FORTH according to the best
of her knowledge or belief, the name and rank of
the person account of whose service the claim is
asserted the time when he entered and left the
vice. the names and rank of the officers under whom
the service performed; the place in which he
sided when he entered the service; the time and
place of his death; that she was lawfully joined in
marriage with said officer soldier, and that she is
now widow. The marriage must be established
in the same manner as the rule under the first sec
ton points out
In case such officer or soldier was a pensioner,
that fact should be also stated well as the
der which he pensioned and the agency at which
he paid.
If the applicant is unable to appear in court by
of bodily infrmity, she may make the decla-
ration before judge or justice of a court of record
of the county in which she resides and the judge
justice shall certify that the applicant from bodily
infirmity is unable to attend court
The official character of the magistrate or other
person, before whom any papers verified, should
be authenticated in the usual form.
L. P. WALDO,
Commissioner Of Pensions.