Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-06-01
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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed Mt the second Session OF the Thirty.
Eighth Congress.

tPUBLIc-No 60
AN ACT supplementary to several acts rela-
a ting to pensions.
Ben enacted 5y tie Sendte and Ronse Of Psr-e.
se'tatres Of The United States of 4uertca in ION.
g'ess assembled, That no invalid pcnsoner now
or hereafter IN the service of the United States
shall be entitled to draw pension for any pe-
Rod of time during which he is or shall be en-
titled to the full pay OF salary which an able
bodied person discharging like duties to the
government is allowed by law.
Sec. ,. 4Hd be IL fuyther eqacte1. That act
ing assistant or contract surgeons disabled hy
any wound received or disease contracted while
actually performing the duties of assistant sur.
Seons or acting assistant surgeons, with any
military forces ia the field or in transitu shall
be entitled To ihe benefits of the pension laws
In the same manner as il they had actually
been mustered into the service with the rank
OF assistant surgeon, aud the widows, minor
children, OF the dependents OF acting assistant
surgeons dying while performing the duty
aforesaid, shall in like manner be entitled TO
the same benefits of the pension laws as il the
deceased had been actually mustered into the
service as assistant surgeons
Sec. 3. -iHd be Il further enacted, That all
persons now 10y law entitled to less pension
than hereafter specified who shall have lost one
foot and one hand in the military service of
the United States, and in the line Of his duty.
shall be entitled to twenty dollars per month.
Sec. l. lind be IL further enacted. That if
any officer or other person named in the first
section of an act entitled An act to grant pen
sions, approved July fourteen, eighteen hum
dred and sixty-two, 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 in the Ser
vice of the United States, and in the line of
duty, his widow, or If there be no widow, or
in case of her death or marriage, without pay
ment to her of any part of the pension herein |
after mentioned, his child or children. under
sixteen years of age, shall be entitled to re- |
celve the same pension as the husband or faith,
er would have been entitled to under said act
had he been totally disabled, 10 commence
from the death of the husband OF father. and
to continue to the widow during her widow
hood, or to the child or children until they
severally attain to the age of sixteen years.
and no longer: Propided, That when such
pension has been, or shall hereafter be. paid |
to the widow. such child or children shall only !
be entitled to receive the pension, to com |
nence from the death or marriage of such wild. |
Dw and To continue as aforesaid: Prot1,led. /
fWtter, That nothing herein contained shall |
be construed to repeal or modify the tenth sec |
ton OF an at entitled An act supplementary |
to An act to grant pensions approved July |
fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. " |
July fourth, eighteen hundred and !
siAty-f0ur, aud said section is hereby declared
to be IN full force and effect in all cases arising
under this act to which said section * applica.
bic, saving aud excepting such caSes lis are en- |
bTiced in the preceding proyiso.
Approved, March s, 1865.