The tri-weekly standard., 1866-11-13
CHAP. CLXVI.
An Act to grant Pensions.

An Act to grant Pensions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF Re
presentativcs of the nited States of America IL
Congress assembled That if any officer, non
commissioned officer, musician, or private of the
army, including regulars, volunteers, and militia,
any officer warrant, or petty officer, musician,
seaman, ordinary seaman, fotilla man, marin,
clerk, andsman, pilot, other person i'll the nav.
or marine corps, has been, since the fourth day
March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shal:
hereafter be, disabled by reason of any wound re
ceived or disease contracted while in the service
of the United States, and in the line of duty, he
shall, upon making due proof of the fact accord
ing to such forms and regulations may
be provided by or in pursuance of law, be placed
upon the list of invalid pensions of the United
States, and be entitled to receive, for the highest
rate of disability, such pension is hereinafter
provided in such cases, and tor an infe ior dis
ability an amount proportonate to the highest
disability, to commence as hereinafter provided,
and continue during the existence of such disa-
bility. The pension for total disability for Of
ticers, non-commssoned officers, musicians, and
privates employed in the military service of the
United States, whether regulars, volunteers, or
militia, and in the marine corps, shall be as fol
lows, viz: Lieutenant colonel, and all officers off
higher rank, thirty dollars per month; major
twenty-five dollars per month; captain, twenty
dollars per month; first lieutenant, seventeen dol
lars per month; second lieutenant, fifteen dollars
per month and non-commisSioned officers, musi-
clans; and privates, eight dollars per month. The
pension for total disability for officers, warrant
petty officers, and others employ ed in the naval
service of the United States, shall be follows
viz: Captain, commander, surgeon, paymaster
and chief engineer, respectively, ranking with
commander by law, lieutenant commanding, and
master commanding, thirty dollars per month !;
lieutenant, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engi-
neer respectively, ranking with lieutenant by law
and passed assistant surgeon, twenty-five dollars
per month; professor of mathematics, master, as
sistant surgeon, assistant paymaster, and chaplain
twenty dollars per month; first assistant engi-
and pilots, fifteen dollars per month passed
midShipman, midshipman, captains and paymas-
ters clerk, second and third assistant engineer
masters mate. and all warrant officers, ten dollars
per month all petty officers, and all other per-
sons before named employed in the naval service,
eight dollars per month; and all commissioned
officers, of either service shall receive such and
only such pension as is herein provided for the
rank in which they hold commissions.
Sec. 2; And be it further enacted, That if any
officer or other person named in the first section
of this act has died since tine fourth day of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty one, shall hereafter
die, by reason of any wound received or disease
contracted while i'm the ser:ice of the United
States, and in the line of duty, his widow, or, if
there be no widow, his child or children under
sixteen years age, shall be entitled 10 receive
the same pension the husband or father would
have been entitled to had he been totally disabled
to commence from the death of the husband or
father, and to continue to the widow during her
widowhOOd, or to the child or children until they
severally attain to the of sixteen years. and no
longer
any officer her person named in the first
tion of this act shall have died to the
fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty
one, or shall hereafter die, by reason of any wound
received disease contracted while in the service
of the United States, and in the line of duty, and
has not left or shall not leave widow nor legiti
mate child, but has left or shall leave q mother
who was dependent upon him for support, in
whole or in part, the mother shall be entitled to
receive the same pension such officer other
person would have been entitled to had he been
totally disabled; which pension shall commence
from the death of the officer Or other person dy
ing as aforesaid: Provided, however, That ifsuch
mother shall herself be in receipt of pension as
a widow, in virtue OF the provisions of the second
section of this act, in that case no pension or al
lowance shall be granted to her account of her
son, unless she gives up the other pension al
lowance And provided, furth r, That the pension
given to mother account of her son shall
terminate on her re marriage: And provided,
further, That nothing herein shall be so construed
as to enttIe the mother of an oficef or other ner
son dying, as aforesaid, to more than one pension
at the same time under the provisions of this
act.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That where
any officer other person named in the first sec
ton of this act shall have died subsequently to the
fourth day OF March, eighteen hundred and sixty
one, or shall hereafter die, by reason ofany wound
received disease contracted while in the service
of the United States, and in the line OF duty and
has not left or shall not leave widow, nor legi
innate child, mother, but has left or may leave
on orphan sister or sisters, under sixteen years of
age, who were dependent upon him for support,
in whole or in part, such sister sisters shall be
entitled to receive the same pension as such Off
Ger or other person would have been entitled TO
had he been totally disabled; which pension TO
said orphan shall commence from the death ofthe
officer other person dying aforesaid, and
shall continue to the said orphans until they sew
orally arrive at the age of sixteen years, and no
longer: Provided, however, That nothing herein
shall be SO construed as to entitle said orphans to
more than one pension at the same time, under
the provisions of this act: And provided, further,
That moneys shall be paid to the widow, or
children, or any heirs of any deceased soldier on
account of bounty, back pay, or pension, who
have in any way been engaged in or who have aid
ed or abetted the existing rebellion in the United
States; but the right of such disoyal widow or
children, heir or heirs of such soldier, shall be
vested in the loyal heir heirs of the decaased if
any there be-
Set. 8. And beit further renacted, That pensions
which may be granted, in pursuance of the pro-
visions of this act, to persons who may have been,
or shall be, employed in the military naval SER
vice of the United States, shall commence on the