Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-06
IPUBLIC-No. Co.

relating TO pensions.
Be IL enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States of 4meTica
in Congress assembled, That section five of an
act entitled IAN act supplemental to an act
entitled can act to grant pensions" ap-
proved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred
and siXty-two," approved July fourth, eigh-
teen hundred and sxty-fOur, and section
three of an act entitled IAN act supplement
tary to the several acts relating to pen
sions," approved March third, eighteen hum
bred and sixty-fve, be, and the same are
hereby, repealed, and the following shall
stand in lieu thereof: That, from and after
the passage of this act, all persons by law
entitled to less pension than hereinafter
specified, who while in the military OF ma
val service and in line of duty, shall have
lost the sight of both eyes, or who shall have
lost the sight OfbOth hands, or been perma-
nently and totally disabled i'll the same
or otherwise so permanently and totally dis
abled as to reEder them utterly helpless, or
so nearly as to require the constant personal
aid and attendance of another person, shall
be entitled to pension of twenty-five dol
lars per month; and all persons who, under
! like circumstances shall have lost both feet,
or one hand and one foot, or been totally and
permanently disabled in the same, or other
wise so disabled as to be incapacitated for
| performing any manual labor, but not
| much as to require constant personal aid
| and attention, shall be entitled to a pension
| of twenty dollars per month; and all persons
| who, under like circumstances, shall have
| lost one hand or one foot, OF been totally
| and permanently disabled in the same, or
| otherwise so disabled as to render their ina
| bility to perform manual labor equivalent
| to the loss Of a hand or a foot. shall be emit
| tied to a pension of fifteen dollars per month.
SEC. 2. ARd be it further enacted, That any
pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or trans
| fer of any right claim, or interest in any
| pension which has been, or may hereafter be,
| granted, shall be void and of no effect and
any person acting as attorney to receive and
| receipt for money for and i'll behalf of any
person entitled to a pension shall, before re-
| ceiving said money, take and subscribe an
oath, to be filed with the pension agent, and
| by him to be transmitted, with the vouchers
now required by law, to the proper account
| ing officer of the Treasury, that he has no
interest in said money by any pledge, mort
gage, sale, assignment, or transfer, and that
| he does not know or believe that the same
has been so disposed of to any person; and
any person who shall falsely take the said
oath shall be guilty of perjury, and, on con-
viction, shall be liable to the pains and pen
| alties of perjury.
| SEC. 3. Ind be it further enacted, That any
person who shall present or cause to be pre-
sented at any pension agency any power of
| attorney, or other paper required as a vouch-
| er in drawing pension, which paper shall
bear Date subsequently, to that on which it
was actually signed or executed, such person
so offending shall be deemed guilty of high
| misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction there
| of be punished by fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for
term not exceeding three years, or both, at
1.-the discretion of the court before whom
such conviction shall be had, and no sum of
money due, or to become due, to any pen
| sioner under the laws aforesaid, shall be liza
BILE to attachment, levy or seizure by or un-
der any legal or equitable process whatever,
| whether the same remains with the Pension
Office or any officer or agent thereof, or is in
course of transmission to the pensioner en-
| titled thereto; but shall inure wholly to the
| benefit of such pensOner.
SEC. a. And be it further enacted, That no
claim agent or other person shall hereafter
charge or receive more than twenty-five
cents for preparing the papers necessary to
enable pensiOner to receive a semi-annual
| payment of his pension, nor shall any pen
sion agent charge or receive more than ff-
teen cents for administering an oath to a
pensiOner, or his attorney in fact, under a
| penalty of five dollars in each case.
SEC. 5. ARd be it further enacted, That
| section one Ofan act entitled "An act sup
Elementary to the several acts relating to
| pensions" approved March three eighteen
L
Sec. 6. ARd be it Jfarthrr enacted, That if
any person entitled to an invalid pension
has died since March four, eighteen hundred
| and sixty-one, or shall hereafter die while
| an application for such pension is pending,
and after the proof has been completed.
I leaving no wife and no minor child under
| sixteen years of age, his heirs or legal rep
resentatives shall be entitled to receive the
accrued pension to which the applicant
would have been entitled had the certificate
been issued before his death.
! SEC. z. ARd be IL further enacted, That in all
| cases when a commission shall have been
regularly issued to any person in the militia
| ry or naval service who shall have died or
been disabled while in the line of duty, after
| the date of such commission. and before be-
| ing mustered, such officer or other person
entitled to pension for such death or disa-
| bility by existing laws shall receive PEN
| sion corresponding to his rank, as determined
| by such commission, the same as if he had
been mustered: PrOrided, That this section
shall not apply to any officer who shall have
wilfully neglected or refused to be so mus
tered.
SEC g. And be IL further enacted, That Off
GERS absent on sick leave, and enlisted men
absent ON sick furlough, shall be regarded in
the administration of the pension laws in the
same manner as if they were in the field or
hospital
Sec. 9. ARd be 1t further enacted, That the
period of service of all persons entitled to
the benefits of the pension laws, or on &C
count of whose death any person may be-
come entitled to d pension, shall be construed
to extend to the time of disbanding the or.
| ganization to'which such persons belonged,
or until their actual discharge for other cause
than the expiration of the service of such
organization.
SEC. 10. ARd be it further enacted, That en-
listed men employed as teamsters. wagoners,
artifcers, hospital stewards, farriers, sad
dlers, and all other enlisted men, however
employed in the service of the army or navy,
not specifically mentioned in the first section
of an act entitled '.An act to grant pensions"
approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred
and sixty-two, shall be regarded, in the adj
ministration of the pension laws, as nom
commissioned officers or privares.
SEC. IL. Ind be 1T further enacted, That II
any officer, soldier, or seaman shall have died
of wounds received or of disease contracted
in the line of duty in the military or naval
service of the United States, leaving widow
and a child or children under the age of six
teen years, and it shall be duly certified I'M
| der seal, by any court having probate Jur1s-
diction, that satisfactory evidence has been
| produced before such court that the widow
| aforesaid has abandoned the care of such
child or children, or is an unsuitable person,
| by reason of immoral conduct, to have the
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