The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-17
CHAP. CYL.
CHAP. CYL.
An Act supplementary to thesever Acts relating

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> Approved June l. 1866.
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An Act supplementary to the several Acts relating
| to Pensions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That section five of an act
entitled An act supplementary to act entitled
"An act to grant PENSIONS approved July four
tenth, eighteen hundred and siXty-two," appro-
we'd July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
and section three of act entitled g An act sup
Elementary to the several acts relating to pen
sions," approved March third, eighteen hundred
pealed and the following shall stand in lieu there
of: That, from and after the passage of this act,
all persons by law entitled to less pension than
hereafter specified, who, while in the military
naval service and in line of duty, shall have lost
the sight of both eyes, or who shall have lost both
hands, or been permanently and totally disabled
| as to render them utterly helpless nearlyso
as to require the constant personal aid and atten
dance of another person, shall be entitled to
pension of twenty-five dollars per month and all
persons who. under like circumstances, shall have
lost both feet, or one hand and one foot. or been
| totally and p, rmanently disabled in the same, or
| otherwise SO disabled as to be incapacitated for
| performing any manual labor but not much
ton, shall be entitled to pension of twenty dol
| lars per month; and all persons who, under like
circumstances, shall have lost one hand or one
foot, or been totally and permanently disabled in
the same, otherwise SO disabled as to render
! their inability to perform manual labor equivalent
to the loss of hand or a foot shall be entitled to
pension of fifteen dollars per month.
| SEC. 2. And be it further enacted That any
pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer 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
attorney to receive and receipt for money for and
in behalf of any person entitled to pension shall,
| before receiving 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 accounting officer
of the treasury, that he has no interest i'll said
money by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assign
|
| 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
penalties of perjury.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any
| person who shall present cause to be presented
at any pension agency any power of attorney, or
| other paper requil ed as voucher in drawing
pension, which paper shall bear date subsequent
ly to that on which it was actually signed
| cuted such person offending shall be deemed
| guilty of high misdemeanOr, and SHALL
| viction thereof, be punished by fine not eXcee-
ding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for
| term not exceeding three years, or by both, at
the discretion of the court before whom such con-
viction shall be had, and no sum of money DUE
| or to become due, to any pensioner under the
laws aforesaid, shall be liable to attachment, levy
or seizure by or under any legal or equitable pro-
cess whatever, whether the same remains with
the Pension Office any officer or agent thereof,
or is in course OF transmission to the pensioner
entitled thereto; but shall inule wholly to the
benefit of such pensoner.
SEC 4. And be it further enacted, That no claim
agent or other person shall hereafter charge
receive more than twenty-five cents for preparing
the papers necessary to enable pensioner to re-
ceive a semi-annual payment of his pension, nor
shall any pension agent chare ceive more
than fifteen cents for administering oath to
pensioner, or his attorney in fact under penalty
of i've dollars in each case.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That section
one of an act entitled AN act supplementary to
the several acts relating to PENSIONS" approved
March three, eighteen hundred and siXty-fve, is
hereby repealed.
SEC. g. And be it further enacted, That if any
person entitled to an invalid pension has died
since March four, eighteen hundred and sixty
one, shall hereafter die while application
for such pension is pending, and after the proof
has been completed, leving no widow and no mi
nor child under sixteen years of age, his heirs or
legal Representatives shall be entitled to receive
the accured pension to which theappcant would
have been entitled had the certificate been issued
SEC. z. And be it further enacted That in all
cases when commission shall have been regular
ly 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 cate of such
commission, and before being mustered, such of
ticcr or other person entitled to pension for
such death or disability by existing laws shall re-
ceive a pension corresponding to his rank as de-
termined by such commission, the same as if he
had been mustered: Provided, That this section
shall not apply to any officer who shall have will
fully neglected or refused to be mustered.
SEC s. And be it further enacted, That officers
absent on sick leave, and enlisted men absent on
sick furlOugh, shall be regarded in the admins
tration of the pension laws in the manner as
il they were in the field or hospital.
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted That the
period of service of all persons entitled to the
whose death any.person may become entitled to a
pension, shall be construed to extend to the time
of disbanding the organization to which such per-
sons belonged, or until their actual discharge for
other cause than the expirotion of the service of
such organization.
SEC. TO- And be it further enacted, That enlis-
ted men employed transfers, waroners, arti-
cers hospital stewards, farriers saddlers and all
other enlisted men, however employed in the ser
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toned 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 administration of the pension laws, as nom
commissioned officers or privates
SEC. IL. And be it further enacted, That if any
officer, soldier, or seaman shall have died of
wounds received or of disease contracted in the
line of duty in the military naval service of the
United States, leaving widow and child or chill
dren under the age of sixteen years, and it shall
be duly certified under seal, by any court having
probate jurisdiction, 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
of the same, then no pension shall be allowed to
such widow until said minor child or children
shall have become sixteen years of age, any pre-
vious enactment to the contrary Notwithstanding
and the minor child or children aforesaid shall be
penSiOned in the same manner as if no widow had
survived the said officer, soldier or seaman, and
such pension may be paid to the regularly anthor-
lied guardian of such minor or minors.
SEQ. IL. And be it further enacted That Sec
uon -FOUR OF an ACT entlIleu - An act TO grant pen
sons," approved July fourteen, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-two, is hereby so amended that the
provisions thereof shall apply to and include the
orphan brother or brothers, well sister or
sisters, under sixteen years of age and the father
as well as mother of a deceased officer or other
person name in section one of the above entitled
act who were dependent upon him for support in
whole or in part, subject to the same limitations
and restrictions
Sec. ID. And be it further enacted, That moth
ing in this any other act shall be SO construed
as to repeal or modify the sixth cection of act
entitled " An act supplementary to An act to
teen hundred and sixty-two," approved July
fourth eighteen hundred and sixty -four, or to en-
title person to receive more than pension
at the same time and in every in which
claim for pension shall not have been filed within
three years after the discharge or decease Of the
party whose account the claim is made, the
pension, if allowed, shall commence from the date
of filing the last paper in said by the party
the
Sec. IA. And be it further enacted, That the
section of n entitled 6. An