Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-09
The Pension Act for Soldiers oil
1912,

Gen. J. L. Barstow, U. s. Pension
Agent. has furnished the Burlington Free
Press the following copy of the recent act
granting pensions to soldiers and sailors
of the war of 1912, with accompanying
instructions, which will be of interest to
the veterans of 1912, of whom number
survive in this region.
Act granting pensions to the survivors of
the war of 1912 who served 60 days,
and to their widows.
The following is the text of the act
granting pensions to soldiers and sailors
of the war of 1912, and the widows of de-
ceased soldiers, approved February IA,
1871:
Be 1T enacted By tie Senate and House
of Representatives of tie United St0tes Of
america IN Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of the Interior be, and he is
hereby, authorized and directed to place
on the pension roll the names of the sur
viving 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 eighteen
hundred and twelve, and were hon morally
discharged, and to such officers and SOL
diers as may have been personally
named in any resolution of Congress
for any specific service in said war, al
though their term of service
NAV have been less than sixty days,
and who at no time during the late rebel
lion 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 functions of any
office whatever under any authority or
pretended authority in hostility to the
United States, and who shall take and
subscribe an oath to support the Consti-
tuition of the United States, and the sur
viving widows of such officers and enlist
ed and drafted men Provided, That
such widow shall have been married prior
to the treaty of peace, which terminated
said war, to an officer, or enlisted or draft
ed man who served as aforesaid in said
war, and shall not have remarked.
SECTION 2. Ind be IL further eaaCted,
That this act shall not apply to any per-
son who is receiving pension at the rate
Of eight dollars or more per month, nor to
any person receiving a pension less than
difference between tho pension now re-
ceived and eight dollars per month. PEN
sions under this act shall be at the rate of
eight dollars per month, except, as herein
provided, when a person is receiving a
pension Of less than eight dollars per
month, and shall be paid to the persons
entitled thereto from and after the pas
sage of this act for and during the term
of their natural lives.
SECTION 3. Ind be ii further enacted,
That 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 entitled to a pension under the pro-
visions of this 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 Score.
tary OF the Interior shall cause to he
from the pension roll the name of
any person whenever it shall appear by
proof satisfactory to him that such name
was put upon such roll through fraudu-
lent representations as to the right of
such person to pension under the pro-
tifcate of discharge shall not deprive the
applicant of the benefits of this act, but |
other proof of service performed and oil
an honorable discharge, if satisfactory,
shall be deemed snfiiciet.
SECTION 4, And be 1t further enacted.
That the provisions of sections twelve
and thirteen Of an act entitled "An act
supplementary to AN act to grant pen.
sions,' approved July 4. 1864, and of
sections tmo o, three, and four of an act en-
titled can act supplementary to several
acts relating to pensions" approved June
6, 1866, shall be applicable to the pensions
granted by this act.
Approved February IA, 1871