Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-09
TIMELY PENSIONS.
Text of the Bill Granting Pensions to
the Veterans of 1872.

The President has approved the
the act granting pensions to soldiers
and sailors of the war of 1872, and
the widows of deceased soldiers,
passed February IA, 1871. II
authorizes and directs the Secretary
of the Interior to place on the pen
sion roll the names of the surviving
officers and enlisted and drafted men,
including militia and volunteers, OF
the military and naval service of the
United States, who served sixty days
in the war with Great Britain OF
1872 ,and were honorably discharged,
and to such officers and soldiers as
may have been personally named in
any resolution of Congress for any
specific service in said wal, although
their term of service may have been
less than sixty days, and who at no
time during the late rebellion against
the authority Of the United States
adhered to the cause of the enemies
of the Government, giving them aid
and comfort, or exercised the func-
tions Of any office whatever under
any authority in hostility to the
United States, and who shall take
and subscribe an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States,
and the surviving widows of such
officers and enlisted and drafted
men; provided that such widows
shall have been married prior to the
treaty of peace which terminated
said war to an officer or enlisted or
drafted man who served as aforesaid
in said war, and shall have remarked.
This act shall not apply to any per-
son who is receiving a pension at
the rate of $S or more per month, nor
to any person receiving pension
of less than IS per month, except for
the difference between the pension
now received and $S per month. Pen
sions under this act shall be at. the
rate of $S per month, except as here
in provided, when q person is re-
ceiving a pension of less than $S
per month, and shall be paid to the
persons entitled thereto from and
after the passage of this act for and
during the term of their natural
lives.
Before the name of any person
shall be placed upon the pension roll,
under this act, proof shall be made
under such rules and regulations as
the Secretary of the Interior may
prescribe, that the applicant is en-
titled to pension under the provis-
ions of the act; and any person who
shall falsely take any oath required
to be taken under the provisions of
this act shall be guilty of perjury;
and the Secretary of the Interior
shall cause it to be stricken from
the pension roll the name of any
person whenever it shall appear to
him by proof satisfactory to him that
such name was put upon such roll
through false or fraudulent repre-
sentations as to the right of such
person to a pension under the pro-
visions of this act. The loss of
certificate of discharge shall not de-
prive the applicant of the benefits
of this act, but other proof of ser
vice performed and of an honorable
discharge, if satisfactory, shall be
deemed sufficient.
The provisions of sections II and
13 of an act entitled can act sup
Elementary to an act to grant pen
sions," approved July 4, 1854, and
of sections 2, 3 and 4 of an act enti-
tled'An act supplementary to several
acts relating to PENSIONS approved
June 6, 1866, shall be applicable to
the PENSIONS granted by this act.