The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-06
Report Of the Commissioner of
Pensions.

DEPARTMENT or THE INTERIOR,
PENSION OFFICE Oct. 25. 1S0f3

Pension OFFICE, Oct rs, 1885, !
SIR-The transact ions Of this bureau during past
year. concsely reported In the following statements
surpass in importance those Of any IKE period since its
organization The aggregate amount Of the pensions
paid during the fiscal year ending June &c. 1852 Just
prior to the passage Of the liberal and comprehensive
pension act Of July IA, 1862 only s7so3sA Atthe
close Of the four years succeeding that date the annual
amount thus paid had increased 70 more than $ra,.
100000. For the current year there will be a much
larger aggregate, and the estimates for the next sc
year. the rates Of pension having been increased at the
last session Of Congress, called for . sum exceeding
$330 00o oo Under the Bounty Land acts OF 1850 and
1855 the labor devolvng upon the Pension Once was
very great for brief pcriod yet the entire aggregate
value OF all the bounty land warrants issued under the
various acts, since the formation Of the government
estimating the public lands granted at 81 Is per
acre. only amounted, In my annual report for
1852 70 $50, 1852 32z The whole amount added during
the last four years will not raise the aggregate above
$sa 100000 Tho total sum paid In pensions proper.
down 70 1852, 500 SCI. During the four years
The amount OF business now annually deyoving upon
the Bounty Land Division Is relatively insignificant,
All the acts or data nros 10 bat rs yea snser
numerically unmporiant In comparison with those
allowed under that and the supplementary acts In
or The large number Of applications which continue to
be received each month account Of casualties in the
late var s manifest that tho aggregate annual amount
OF pensions will continue to swell for some years 10
come
REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS
Only one OF the soldiers Of the Revolution, whose
names are inscribed on the pension rolls IL living
Samuel Downing, OF Edinburg, Saratoga county, New
York. This veteran, distinguished by fortune the
arms national Independence, enlisted from Carroll
county, New Hampshire and is now more than one hun
The surviving revolutionary soldier receives In sdd
lion TO ms original pension 500 per annum under
act approved April ], 1854. and $500 per undor
The whole number Of The widows Of revolutionary
soldiers On the peneon rolls Esturned al the close Of
the last fiscal year. was sala diminuton Of 81 during
ozsia Anxr rrxsoxns uspz. ACTS sr,oa 70 ma. o,
As already Indicated tho number Of pensioners other
than Revolutionary, under the various pension laws
enacted prior TO that Of July 1891 BY Of dsahs
Reyoluson Is comparatively small. and yearly dimin-
ishins Aner LAPSE Of moro than my years since the
the. class so s sna or
well as Of the suspended rejected claims, called up
anew very few arc found admissible The numbers
engaged IN the various Indian were comparatively
small and the casualties relatively unimpox,aut The
applications resulting from the Mexican have also
been chiefly disposed Of aud but small number Of cases
Of this Glass now up for adjustment The whole
number OF invalid pensioners the rolls who
numSsq Of e ,v wa docs not The
ss q sss s'ss ss s
under general and special acts, was i,227
NJ. Apylssov 70 Tai Army PENSION sotLs
applications during the last fiscal year was 22,6l5
At an average individual rate Of ST. IS, and an
aggregate rate OF 81 sl2 per The number ofs
2s3 at an annual amount Of increase Of s4aols The
entire number Of army invalid applications OF both
ns assSs hss 'ae Was sc ana inc an
The number Of original applications OF widows and de-
pendent relatives OF deceased officers and soldiers Of
INV Anr,n
rate EACH Of tol s and an aggregate rate Of 81 I'll
per annnm or this class Of six
total humber Of admissions under the widows Divisions
~ l0s2. With total yearly amount OF ~ 744,0i0.
me whole number Of army pensicners Of classes
was u, III, the aggregate Of whose pensions was
a, c0o, 623 per annun.
the number dropped from the rolls during the same
period by reason Of death, marriage and other causes
was s,S4z NJ an annual aggregate rate OF fsso,l13.
hrxsks AND AMOUNT or ARMY PENSIONS
There were on the pension rolls OF the Goth day OF
'ions was ALPS, us, and co. $50 widows and dependent.
o,a Of army pensioners Of ia 5oS and grand annual
aggregate Of 81, 41a I02
s e G.S a payments n: e ss" .
k2e2 2o4 70 army invalid pensioners, o. sos and
Widows and dependen. rsstivss Of deceased officers and
". los.lse, giving the total SUN OF sla,l7',44e
or ors,ps, srr,,csor. ~ nav nv.rd r.,so.. o..
we're allowed during the ending June 90 1sGa at an
.verage rate OF 17p ~, and aggregate amount Of
s,o02 per annum. There were Is pensions OF this
.l Of 200 navy invalid applications allowed and an
aegryae annual rate Of 91ss19 The number ~ orirI
nal APPLICATIONS Of widows and dependent relatives
ceoeascociccrs and scsmeu Of the navy allowed during
lns same Isrod was as At average rate OF S1Sl az
ana an aggrsvAte Of SO, e76 per snnun.
nne tossi number OF navy invalid pcnsoners on the
Io - me c'cseof the fiscal year was I032 at an AL
greease annual rae OF 1910, and the number OF vIJ
~ ana eepenoen relatives 49, tan aggregate an
nuaI nase % tios M The whole number az navy |
psn,cns o. ~ o sas was ANA and The total amount
The amount paid 70 nN~v ,rvs,,a -.~..--.-- 49, i