Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-30
[PUBLrc-No. 1871
AN ACT to grant pensions.

Be 1t enacted by the senate ana mouse OF
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that if any officer,
non-commissioned officer, musician, or pri-
vate of the army, including regulars, volun-
teers, and militia, or any officer, warrant, or
petty officer, musician, seaman, ordinary sea-
man, fotillaman, marine, clerk, landsman, pi-
lot, or other person in the navy or marine
corps, has been, since the fourth day of March,
eighteen hundred and siXty-one, or shall
hereafter be, disabled by reason of any
wound received or disease contracted while in
the service of the United States, and in the
line of duty, he shall, upon making due proof
of the fact according to such forms and regu-
lations as are or may be provided by or in
pursuance of law, be placed upon the list of
invalid pensions of the United States, and be
entitled to receive, for the highest rate of dis
ability, such pension as is hereinafter provid-
ed in such cases, and for an inferior disability
an amount proportionate to the highest dsa-
bility, to commence as hereinafter provided,
and continue during the existence of such dis
ability. The pension for total disability for
officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians,
and privates, employed in the military SER
vice of the United States, whether regulars,
volunteers, or militia, and in the marine corps,
shall be as follows, viz Lieutenant colonel
and all officers of higher rank, thirty dol
lars per month; major, twenty-five dollars
per month; captain, twenty dollars per
month; first lieutenant seventeen dol
lars per month; second lieutenant ff-
teen dollars per month; and non-com-
missioned officers, musicians, and pri-
Yates, eight dollars per month. The pension
for total disability for officers, warrant or
petty officers, and others employed in the ma
val service of the United States, shall be as
follows, viz: Captain, commander, surgeon,
pgymaster, and chief engineer, respectively,
ranking with commander by law, lieutenant
commanding, and master commanding, thirty
dollars per month; lieutenant, surgeon, pay
master, and chief engineer, respectively, rank
ing with lieutenant by law, and passed assist
ant surgeon, twenty-five dollars per month;
professor of mathematics, master, assistant
surgeon, assistant paymaster, and chaplain.
twenty dollars per month; first assistant en-
gineers and pilots, fifteen dollars per month;
passed midshipman, midshipman, captains
and paymasters' clerks, second and third as
sistant engineer masters mate, and all war
rant 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 receive such and only
such pension as is herein provided for the
rank in which they hold commissions.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That
if any officer or other person named in the
first section of this act has died since the
fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and
siXty-one, or shall hereafter die, by reason of
any wound received or disease contracted
while i'll the service of the United States, and
in the line of duty, his widow, or, if there be
no widow, his child or children under sixteen
years years of age, shall be entitled to re-
OF tba bn b,1Sb nd ar
father would have been entitled to. had he
been totally disabled, to commence from the
death of the husband or father, and to contin-
ue to the widow during her widowhood, or to
the child or children until they severally at
tain to the age of sixteen years, and no longer.
Sect. 3. And be it 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 Of any wound receiv-
ed or disease contracted while in the service
of the United States, and in the line of duty,
and has not left or shall not leave widow
nor legitimate child, but has left Or shall
leave mother who was dependent upon him
for support, IN whole or in part, the mother
shall be entitled to receive the same pension
as such officer or other person would have
been entitled to had he been totally disabled :;
which pension shall commence from the death
of the officer or other person dying as afore-
said; Provided, however, that if such mother
shall herself be in receipt of pension as a
widow, in virtue of the provisions of the sec
ond section of this act in that case no pen
sion or allowance shall be granted to her on
account of her son, unless she gives up the
other pension or allowance And provided,
further, that the pension given to a mother on
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marriage And provided, further, that moth
ing herein shall be so construed to entitle
the mother ofan officer or other person dying,
as aforesaid, to more than one pension at the
same time under the provisions of this act.
Sec. 4. And be it 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 here
after die, by reason of any wound received or
disease contracted while in the service of the
United States and in the line of duty. and has
not left or shall not leave widow, nor legiti-
mate child, nor mother. but has left or may
leave an orphan sister or sisters, under six
teen years of age, who were dependent upon
him for support, in whole or in part, such sis
ter or sisters shall be entitled to receive the
same pension as such officer or other person
would have been entitled to had he been total
ly disabled; which pension to said orphan
shall commence from the death of the officer
or other person dying aforesaid, ard shall
continue to the said orphans until they sever.
ally arrive at the age of sixteen years, and ne
longer Provided, however, That nothing
herein shall be so construed as to enttle said
orphans to more than one pension at the same,
under the provisions of this act And provid-
ed further, That no money shall be paid to
the widow, or children, or any heirs of any
deceased soldier on account of bounty, back
pay, or pension, who have in any way been
engaged in, or who have aided or abetted the
existing rebellion in the United States; but
the right of such disloyal widow or children,
heir or heirs of such soldier, shall be vested
in the loyal heir or heirs of the deceased, il
any there be-
Sect g. And be it further enacted. that pen
sions which may be granted, in pursuance
with the provisions of this act, to persons who
may have been, or shall be, employed in the
military or naval service OF the United States,
shall commence on the day of the discharge
of such persons in all cases in which the APP
plication is not filed during the year, pensions
granted to persons employed as aforesaid shall
commence on the day Of the filing of the APP
plication.
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted. that the
fees of agents and attorneys, for making out
and causing to be executed the papers neces-
sary to establish a claim for a pension, boun
ty, and other allowance, before the pension
Office under this act, shall not exceed the fol
lowing rates: For making out and causing t.
be duly executed a declaration by the appl