Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-01
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed the Second Session of the Thirty Seventh
Congress.
PUBLIc-No. 49,


AN ACT to grant pensions.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
ca 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, fiotillaman, 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 disa-
biity, to commence as hereinafter provided,
and continue during the existence of such dis
ability. The pension for total disability for
officers, non-cOmmiSsionedo 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 fif-
teen dollars per month; and non-com-
missioned officers, musicians, and pr-
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 rs
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. ,. 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-
ceive the same pension as the husband or
father would have been entitled to had he
been totally disabled, to commence from the
death of the husband or father, and to cOntin-
ne 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 a 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 lie 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 mother on
account of her son shall terminate on her re-
marriage: And provided, further that moth
ing herein shall be so construed as TO entitle
the mother ofan officer OF 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 a 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 as aforesaid, and shall
continue to the SAID orphans until they sever
ally arrive nj the age OF sixteen years, ana no