The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-03-16

GRANTING PENSIONS TO CERTAIN SOLDIERS
AND SAILORS OFTHE WAR OF EIGHTEEN HUN
DRED AND TWELVE, AND THE WIDOWS OF

GRANTING PENSIONS TO CERTAIN SOLDIERS
AND SAILORS OFTHE WAR OF EIGHTEEN HUN
DRED AND TWELVE, AND THE WIDOWS OF
DECEASED SOLDIERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
REPRESENTATIVES of the United States of Ameri-
ca 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 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 tho war OF
Great Britain of eighteen hundred and twelve,
and were honorably discharged, and to such
other officers and soldiers as may have been
personally named in any resolution OF Congress
for any specific service in said war, 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 functions of any Office what
ever under any authority or pretended author
ity in hostility to the United States, and who
shall take and subscribe an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States; and the sur
viving widows of such officers and enlisted and
drafted men Provided Thatsnch widows shall
have been married, prior to the treaty of peace
which terminated said war, to an officer or en-
listed or drafted nan, who served as aforesaid
in said war, and shall not have remarked.
SEC. e And be it further enacted, That this
Act shall not apply to any person who is re-
ceiying pension at the rate of eight dollars or
more per month nor to any person receiving
pension less than eight dollars per month, ex-
ccpt for the difference between the pension now
received 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 person is receiving q pension Of less
than eight dollars 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.
SEC. s. And be Il further enacted, That be-
fore 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 seRtitled to pension under
the provisions 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 tho Secretary of the Interior
shall cause to be stricken from the pension roll
the name Of any person whenever 1t shall ap-
pear, by proof satisfactory 20 him, chat such
names was pat upon ench roll through false or
fraudulent representation as to the right ofsuch
person to pension under the provisions of this
Act The loss of certificate of discharge shall
not deprive the applicant of the benefits of this
Act but other proof of the services performed
and of an honorable discharge, if satisfactory,
shall be deemed sufficient
Sec T. And be 1t further enacted, That the
provisions of sections twelve and thirteen ofan
Act entitled "Aa Act supplementary to an Act
to grantpensions," approved July four, eighteen
hundred and sixty four, and of sections two,
three and four of an Act entitled can Actsup-
Elementary to several Acts relating to pen
sions," approved June six, eighteen hundred
and sixty:six, shall be applicable to the pen
sions granted by this Act.
Approved February II, 1871.