The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-18
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed Mt the Second Session of the
Thirty-seventh Congress.
PUBLIC-No. 137
IN ACT to grant pensions.

PUBLIC-NO. 137.
AN ACT to grant pensions.
Be enacted by the Senate aud House of Represent
atires Of the United States Of America in Congress
assembled, That if any officer, non-commis
officer, musician, private of the army, including
regulars volunteers, and militia, or any officer,
warrant, or petty officer, musician seamen, fotil-
laman marine, clerk, landsman, pilot, or other
person in navy or marine corps, has been, since
the fourth day Of March, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, shall hereafter be, disabled by reason
of any wound received disease contracted while
in the service of the United States in the line ofdu
ty he shall, upon making due proof of the fact
cording TO such forms and regulations as are or
may be provided by in pursuance of law, he
placed upon the list Of invalid pensions of the Uni
ted States and be entitled to receive for the high
est rate of disability such pension is hereinafter
provided in such cases. and for an inferior disabili
ty an amount proportionae to the highest disabili
~, to commence as hereinafter provided, and con-
tinus during the existence of such disability The
pension for total disability for officers, non-cOm-
missioned officers musicians, and privates employ
ed in the military service of the United States,
whether regulars, volunteers militia, and in
the marine corps, shall be as follows, viz: Lieuten
ant colonel, and all officers of higher rank, thirty
dollars per month; major, twenty-five dollars per
month captain, twenty dollars per month; first
lieutenant, seventeen dollars per month second
lieutenant fifteen dollars per month and non
commissioned officers, musicians, and priyates,
eight dollars per month. Il. pension for total
disability for officer, warrant or petty officers,
and others employed in the naval service of the Uni
ted States shall be follows, viz: Captain, COM
mander, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer,
respectively, ranking with commander by law, lieu
tenant commanding, and master commanding,
thirty dollars per month; lieutenant, surgeon,
paymaster, and chief engineer, respectively, rank
ing with lieutenant by law, and passed assistant
surgeon, twenty five dollars per month professor
ofmathematics, master assistant surgeon, assistant
paymaster and chaplain, twenty dollars per month
nrst assistant engineers and pilots, fifteen dollars
per month; passed midshipman midshipman,
captains and paymasters' clerk, second and third
assistant engineer, masters mate, and all warrant
officers, ten dollars per month; all petty officers,
and all other persons before named employed in the
naval service, eight dollars per month; and all
commissioned officers, of either service, shall re-
ceiye such and only such pension Is herein pro-
vided for the rank in which they hold commissions.
SEC. 2. ANd be Il further enacted That if any Of
fccr other person named in the first section of
this act has died since the fourth day of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty lone, or shah hereafter
die, by ofany wound received or disease con-
tracted while in the service of the United States,
and in the line of duty, his widow, or, If there be
widow, his child children undor sixteen years
of age, shall be entitled to receive the pension
the husband or father would have been entitled
to had he been totally disabled to commence from
the death of the husband father, and to continue
70 The widow during her widowhood, or to the child
or children until they seyeraly attain 10 the age OF
sixteen years, and no longer.
SEC. 8. Ind be n further enacted, That where any
officer other person named in the first section of
this shall have died subsequently to the fourth
day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty -one or
shall hereafter die by reason Of any wound receiv-
ed disease contracted while in the service of the
United States, and in the line Of duty, and has not
left shall not leave widow nor legitimate child,
dent upon him for support, in whole or In part,
the mother shall be entitled to receive the same
pension such officer or other person would have
been entitled to ad he been totally disabled;
which pension shall commence from the death Of
the officer other person dying as aforesaid Pro-
rded hotrcrer, That ii such mother shall herself he
in receipt of pension a widow, in virtue of the
provisions of the second section of this act in that
case no pension or allowance shall be granted to
her on account of her son, unless she gives up the
other pension allowance And prorided further,
That the pension given TO mother on account of
her son shall terminate on her re-marrlage: And
Prorided, further, That nothing herein shall be so
construed as to entitle the mother of officer or
other person dying, aforesaid, TO more than one
pension at the same time under the provisions of
this act.
SEC L. and be Il further enacted That where any
officer or other person named in the first section of
this act shall have died subsequently TO the fourth
day Of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one or
shall hereafter die by reason ofany wound received
or disease contracted while in the service Of the
United States In the line Of duty, and has not left
ors all not leave widow, legitimate child,
nor mother, but has left may leave orphan
sister sisters, under sixteen years Of age who
were dependent upon him for support, in whole or
in part such sister sisters shall be entitled to re-
ceive the same pension as such officer other per-
son would have been entitled to had he been totally
disabled; which pension to said orphan shall com.
mence from the death of the officer or other person
dying as aforesaid, and shall continue the said
orphans until they severally arrive at the age o
sixteen years, and no longer: ProUided, however
That no thing herein shall be so construed as to en-
title said orphans to more than one pension at tn,
same time, under the provisions Of this act: aud
Provided, further, That no moneys shall be paid I,
the widow, children, any heirs Of any deceas
ed soldier on account of bounty, back ray, pen
sion, who have in any way been engaged in or VIII
have aided Allotted the existing rebellion in tn
United States; but the right of such disloyal wild
or children, heir or heirs of such soldier, shall
be vested in the loyal heir or heirs Of the deceased
If any there be.
SEC. 5. And be IL further enacted, That pension
which may be granted in pursuance of the provis
ions OF this act, to persons who may have been, O
shall be employed in the IN Hilary naval servic
ofthe United States, shall commence on the day
the discharge of such persons in all cases in whic
the application for such provisions is filed With
one yeas after che date of said discharge: and in
ses IN which the application is not filed durinC sal
year, pensions granted to persons employed as afore
application. e " VI
sec. D. Aud be Il further eaacfed That the fees q
agents ana attorneys, for making ont and causin
70 DC executed the papers necessary to establish
claim Tor pension, bounty, and other .lIo,ra,c
before the Pension Office under mi a., s,'i ~
exceed the following rates, For, maxine ont ~
causing to be duly executed declaratior D., ~
appli ant, with the necessary alidayits and a.,
warding the to the Pension Office ,rit, ~
requisite correspondence, five dollars In eas
wherein additional testimony ia required bv M
Commissioner Of Pensions, for each affidavit SO =
quired and executed and forwarded, Except the a
fdavits of Surgeons for which such agents and a
torneys shall not be entitled to any fees,) dc
lar and fifty cents.
SEC. T. Aad be Il further enacted, That any age
or attorney who shall, directly or Indirectly d
mand or receive any greater compensation fer b
services under this act than is prescribed in b
preceding section OF this act, who shall contra
or agree TO prosecute any claim for pension, bou
ty, or other allowance under this act, on the cond
ton that he shall receive per centlim upon or al
portion of the amount of such claim, or who shs