Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-05-23
INCREASE or PENSIONS.

and gladness to many disabled soldiers
and seamen. The act passed the senate
on Friday last, and has every prospect Of
becoming law. Congress shows a CON-
mendable willingness to reward the de-
tenders of the country.
An Act Supplementary to the Several
Acts Relating to Pensions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States Of
America, in Congress assembled, that Sec
ton five of an act entitled ian act emit
tied an act to grant pensions" approved
July II, 1864. and section three OF an act
entitled ian act supplementary to the
several acts relating to pensions approved
March 1885," 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hereby repealed, and the following shall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 or naval service
aud the line of duty, shall have lost the
sight of both eyes. or who shall have lost
both hands, or been permanently or total
ly disabled as to render them utterly
helpless, or so nearly so as to require the
constant personal aid and attendance Of
another person. shall be entitled to pen
sion of twenty five dollars per month. and
all persons who, under like circumstances
have lost both or one hand and one foot,
or been totally and permanently disabled
in the same, or otherwise so disabled as
to be incapacitated for performing any
manual labor, but not so much SO as to
require constant personal aid and atteu-
ton, shall he entitled to pension of
twenty dollars per month, and all persons
who. under like circumstances, shall have
lost one hand or one foot, or been totally
disabled in the same or otherwise so dis
abled as to materially interfere with the
performance of manual labor without
wholly1incspacitating them therefor, shall
be entitled to a pension of fifteen dollars
per month.
Section 2. and be it further enacted,
That any pledge, mortgage, sale, assign
ment or transfer of any right, claim or
interest in any person 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 in behalf of any person
entitled to pension, shall, before receiv-
ing said money. take and subscribe an
oath to be filed with the pension agent,
and by him to be transmstted. with the
vouchers now required by law, to the
proper accounting officers of the Treasury,
that he has no interest in said money by
any pledge, mortgage, 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 conviction shall
be liable to the pains and penalties Of
perjury.
Section 8. And be it further enacted
That any persen who shall present or
cause to be presented, at any pension
agency, any power Of attorney or other pa.
per required as a voucher in drawing a
pension, which paper shall bear a date
subsequently to that on which it was &C
tually signed or executed, such person 50
shall be deemed guilty Of high
and shall, on conviction
thereof, be punished by fine not exceed
ing five hundred dollars or ly imprison-
ment for term not exceeding three years
or by both, at the discretion Of the court
before whom such conviction shall be
had.
Section 4. And be it further enacted
That section one Of an act entitled IAN
act supplementary to the several acts re-
lating to PENSION approved Mar. 8. 1865,
is hereby repealed.
Section 5. And be il further enacted,
That if any person entitled to an invalid
pension has died since March 4. 1861, or
shall hereafter die while an application
for such pension is pending, and after the
proof has been completed, leaving no wild.
ow and no minor children under sixteen
years of age, his heirs or legal represent.
atives shall be entitled to receive the &C.
crued pension to which the applicant wo'
have been entitled had the certificate been
issued before his death.
Section 4. And be it further enacted.
That in all cases when commission shall
have been regularly issued to any person
in the military or naval service. who shall
have died or been disabled while in the
line Of duty after the date of such com.
mission and before being mustered, such
officer or other person entitled to pension
for such death or disability by existing
laws. shall receive a pension correspond.
ing to his rank as determined by such
commission the same as if he had been
mustered, provided that this section shall
not apply to any officer who shall have
willfully neglected or refused to be %
mustered.