Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-04-06
Matters OF Interest TO Soldiers,
their widows, children, Faith
ers, Mothers, sisters, EsrOthers,
or legal Representatives.
WHO ARE ENTITLED 10 PENSIONS.


Any officer, non-commissioned officer
musician, or private of the army, including
regulars, volunteer and militia, or any ofh
Ger. seaman, musician, pilot or other person
in the navy or marine corps, who has tcen |
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 is entitled to pen
sion.
The pension for total disability is, for
Lieut.. Col. and all officers of higher rank,
thirty dollars per month; Major, twenty
five dollars per month, Captain, twenty
dollars per month; lst Lieutenant, seven
. teen dollars per month; I'd Lieutenant, fit
teen dollars per month; and non commits
stoned officers, musicians and privates eight
dollars per month. And for an inferior
disability. an amount proportionate to the
highest disability.
Any person who shall have lost both feet
in the military service of the United States,
and in the line Of duty, shall be entitled to a
pension of twenty dollars per month; and
those who, under the same conditions have
lost both hands or both eyes, shall be enti-
tied to pension of twenty. fvo dollars per
; month.
Ii any officer or soldier has died or shall
ceived or disease contracted while in the
service Of the United States and in the
!, line Of his duty, his widow, or if there be
, no widow, his child or children under six
teen 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. If the soldier left
, 10 widow. or child under sixteen, the moth
, or is entitled Tshe ,cds dependent on her son,
in whole or in part, for her support.
IF the soldier left no widow, child or
; mother entitled as before stated, orphan
sisters arc entitled to the pension until they
: are sixteen years OF age.
= No perssn who aids or ahets the rebellion
r is entitled to "a pension or anything else
f from tho Government.
t PENSIONS COMMENCE.
J., To invalid or disabled soldiers pension,
e from the date oil their discharge from the
service, if the application be made within
one year from the date Of discharge; if not
made within one year, then from the date
: Of application. If the applicant for an in
. valid pension die during the pendency o
his claim. then the pension Of the widow OIL
other person entitled to receive pension
o by reason of his service and death, shall
S commence at the date at which such de
i ccdcnts invalid pension would have com
H menced
h DECEASED SOLDIERS LEGAL HEIRS.
o IF the soldier left wife she is his heir
Y and is entitled to pension, bounty and ar
- rears of pay. II he left no wife, his chilC
. or children come next, and are entitled t,
. bounty and arrears of pay, and also'pen
II sions, if any are under sixteen years o
+, age. If he left neither wife nor child hi
', father is his heir to the bounty and arrear
l. Of pay, but no pension. If he left neithe
wife, child nor father, his mother is hi
heir, and is entitled to bounty, arrears o
l. pay, and also pension, If she can show ha
.; she was dependent IN whole or IN part ol
d the deceased for support IF he left Meth
" er wife, child, father nor mother, his broth
& ers and sisters are his heirs to the bount.
's and arrears of pay, Jointly. But no pen
t. sion, except in case of orphan sisters unde
l6 years Of age, who were dependent i,
whole or in part on tho deceased for sup
= port. For full information in regard to
o and prompt collection of all claims, apply t.
. US in person or by letter.