Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-12-30
BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE OFFICERS AND
SOLDIERS OF THE LAST WAR.

The following BILL for tho relief Of certain officers and
soldiers Of the army and navy who served in the Of
1872 has been introduced into the House of Representa-
tves by the Hon. 8. A. SMITH, Of Tennessee Itmaynot
be out Of place here to add that National Convention
to promote the objects contemplated in this bill will be
held in this city on the 9Th Of January next:
Be enacted &c. That every officer, non commissioned
officer, musician, private Of the regular army State
troops or militia and every officer non-commissioned
officer musicians mariner or marine of the United States
navy who served in the with Great Britain decar
ed the 18th day of June, 1872 at more terms
period Of two years. shall be authorized to receive
pension equal to his full pay in said service according to
his rank but not exceeding in any case the pay of cap
tain of infantry and that every officer commission
ed officer musician private mariner marine, afore
said who shall have served aforesaid term or terms,
In the whole less than two years. but not less than three
month"; shall be authorized to receive, aforesaid,
pension bearing such proportion to the annuity granted
to the same rank for the service Of two as his term
Of service bears to the term aforesaid said pensions
the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred
and ffty-four, and continue for life.
Sec. q That if any officer, non-commissoned officer,
musician private Mariner marine, who served in the
specified in the first section Of this act has died.
shall hereafter die, leaving widow, such widow shall
be entitled to the pension that her husband would
be entitled to, living, under this act; said pension to
the fourth day Of March, 1854 If her hus
band was then dead but if he was then living to COM
from the day Of his DEATH and continue during
her widowhood: Provided That second marriage, after
the death Of her husband for whose service she claims
shall be no bar to her claim, If she be again widow at
the time Of presenting her claim.
SEQ. g. That if any person entitled to pension under
this act shall file claim for the during his her
lifetime and die during the tendency Of said claim, such
pension from the time the right accrued to the death Of
the claimant shall be paid to the widow Of such claim
ant any survive and if not then to the surviving child
children Of such deceased claimant, to his her
administrator for the benefit Of the surviv
ing child children; but in where the pension
not claimed in the lifetime Of the person originally
entitled thereto shall the right said pension survive his
or her DEATH descend to his her children other
representatives.
Sec a. That the pensions granted by this act shall be
payable semannually in the manner as pensions
under the act entitled "An act supplementary to the
for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers Of
the Revolution" approved June 1882 and shall not be
any way transferable liable to attachment levy,
seizure, by any legal process whatever but shall
wholly to the personal benefit of the person originally
titled thereto to the widow surviving children Of
such person, in he she shall die during the pen
dency Of the claim