The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-03-18
TIMELY PENSIONS---TEXT OF THE BILL GRANT
ING PENSIONS TO THE VETERANS OF 1872

WAsHINGTON February 26-The Presi
dent has approved the act granting pensions
to soldiers and sailors OF the war of 1912
| and the widows Of deceased soldiers. pass
ed February IA, 1871. 1t authorizes and
and directs the Secretary of the Interior to
| place on the pension roll the names of the
surviving officers and enlisted and drafted
men, including militia and vcunteers. Of
the military and naval service of the Uni
ted States who served sixty days in the war
with Great Britain Of Sl2, and were honor
ably discharged, and to such officers and
soldiers as may have been personally named
| in any resolution of Congress for any speci-
hc service in said war, although their term
OF seryice 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 an!
comfort, or exercised the functions of any
office whatever under any authority in hos
tility to the United States, and v ho shall
take and subscribe an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States, and the
surviving widows Of such officers and en-
listed and drafted men provided, that such
widows shall have been married prior to
war to an officer or enlisted or drafted man
who served as aforesaid in said war, and
she'll not have remarked This act shall
not apply to any person receiving pension
at the rate of So or more per month, nor to
any person receiving pension less than IS
per month except for the difference between
the pension now received and SO per month.
Pensions under this act shall be at the rate
of So per month, except us herein provided
when person is receiving pension of less
than S8 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 entitled
to pension under the visions Of this
act; and any person who shall falsely take
any oath required to be taken under the pro-
visions of this 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 ia Sc
or fraudulent representations as to the right
Of such person to pension under the pro
visions of this act. The loss of a certificate
Of discharge shall not deprive the applicant
of the benefits of this act but other proof of
service performed and of an honorable dis
charge if satisfactory shall be deemed suffi-
cIent.
The provision of section twelve and thir-
teen of an act entitled can act supplement
tary to an act to grant pensions" approved
July 4, 854, and ofsections two, three, and
four of an act entitled can act supplement
tary to several acts relating to PENSIONS"
approved June 6, 1866, shall be applicable
to the pensions granted by this act.