The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-20

rhe following is the text of the act granting
pensions to soldiers and sailors OF the war OF
1912, ard the widows OF dece sed soldiers, as
passed by both Houses:<
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiues of the United States Of america IL,
C0nqress assembled That the Secretary of the
Interior be, and he is hereby authorized and d.
rected 10 place on the pension roll the names
of the surviving officers and enlisted and draft.
ed men, including militia and volunteers, o.
the military and naval service of the United
States who eserve6 sixty days in the war with
Great Brltlan of eighteen hundred and twelve,
and were bOnorably discharged, and to such
officers and soldiers as may have been person
ally named in any resolution OF Congress fol
any special service in said war, although Their
term of service may have been less than sixty
days, and who a no time during the late re-
belion against the authority of the United
States adhered to the cause of tue enemies o.
TIE Government, giving Them aid ard 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 Unified States, and the sur
vivIng widows of such officers and enlisted and
drafted men: sProUided, That such widow
shall have been married prior to the treaty OF
peace which terminated such war to an officer,
or enlisted or drafted men who served as afOre-
said in said war, and who shall not have re-
married.
Secuon q And be it further enacted, That
this act shall not apply to any person who is
receiving pension at the rate of eight dollars
or more per month, nor to any person receiV-
ing pension less than eight dollars per month
except for the difference between the pension
DOW received and eight dollars per month
Pensions under this act shall be at the rate oil
eight dollars per month, and shall be paid tC
the pc. sons entitled thereto from and after the
passage of this act for and during the term Of
their natural lives.
Section 3. And be 1t further enacted, Tha,
before the name OF auy 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 pension under the pro
falsely take any oath required to be take1
under tie provisions of tins act shall be guilty
of perjury; and the Secretary of the Interior
shall cause to be stricken from the pension roll
the name of>any person whenever it shall APP
pear by proof satisfactory. to him that such
name was put upon such roll through false OF
fraudulent representations as to the RICH t oil
such person to a pension under the provisions
of this act. The loss of certificate of dis
charge shall not deprive the applicant of the
benefits of this act, but other proof CT service
performed and of an honorable discharge, il
satisfactory, shall be deemed sufficient.
Sec 3. And be 1t further enacted, That the
provisions OF sections twelve and thirteen OF
an act entitled San act supplementary to an
act to grant PENSIONS approved July 4, 1864
and of sections two, three and four of an act
entitled AN act supplementary t, several acts
relating to PENSIONS approved June G. 1866
shs il be applicable to the pensions granted by
this act.