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cial license is granted, and shall collect
and distribute tie same among the in
spectors assigned to superiIterd the un-
lading Of the cargo.
Approved March 3, 1873.
GENERAL NATURB-No. g.
An act fixing the time for the election of
Representatives from the State of Cali
tornia to the Forty-fourth Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States OF
America 10 Congress assembled. That on
the first Wednesday in September, IN the
year eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
there shall be elected in each congressional
district in the State of California one Rep
reseDtative to represent said State IN the
Forty fourth Congress of the United States.
Approved March 3, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-No. g..
An act 70 revise, consolidste, and amend
the laws relating to pensions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That If
the ability of any officer Of the army, IN
cluding regulars, volunteers, and militia, or
any officer in the navy or marine corps, or
any elisted man, however employed, in the
military or naval service Of the United
States, or in it's marine corps, whether regu-
larly mustered or not disabled by reason Of
any wound or injury received, or disease
contracted, while in the service Of the
United States and in the line of duty; any
master serving on a gunbOat, or any pilot,
engineer, sailor or other person not regu-
larly mustered, serving upon any gunboat
or war vessel of the United States, disab abled
by any wound or injury received or other.
wise incspacitated, while in the line of
duty, for procuring his subsistence by
manual labor; any person not an enlisted
soldier in the army, serving for the time
being as a member Of the militia OF any
State under orders of an officer OF the
United States, or who volunteered for the
time being to serve with any regularly Or
ganized military or naval force OF the I'M.
ted States, or who otherwise volunteered
and rendered service in any engagement
with rebels or Indians. disabled in conse-
Quence of wounds or injury received IN the
line of duty in such temporary service; any
acting assistant or contract surgeon, dis
abled by any wound or injury received or
disease contracted in the line OF duty while
actually performing the duties OF assistant
surgeon or acting assistant surgeon with
any military force in the field or in transitu
or in hospital, or any provost marshal, dep
uty provost marshal, or enrolling officer,
disabled by reason Of any wound or injury
received in the discharge of his duty, to
procure a subsistence by manual labor mas
been since the fourth day Of March, eight
cen hundred and sixty-one, or shall here
after be impaired by reason Of such disa-
bility, he shall, upon making due proof of
the fact, according to such forms and regu-
lations as are or may be provided by and in
pursuance of law, be placed upon the list of
invalid pensioners Of the United States, and
be entitled to receive, for total disability
or a permanent specific disability, such PEN
sion as is hereinafter provided in such cases,
and for an inferior disability, except in cases
of permanent specific disability for which
the rate of pension is expressly pro-
vided, an amount proportiOnate to that pro-
vided for total disability, to commence as
hereinafter provided, and to continue dur
ing the existence of the disability; provided,
that no claim of State militiaman, or nom
enlisted person, on account OF disability
from wounds or injury received in battle
with rebels or Indians, while temporarily
rendering service, shall be valid unless pro-
secuted to a successful issue prior to the
fourth day Of July, eighteen hundred and
seventy-four; and provided further, that no
person shall be entitled to a pension by
reason of wounds or injury received or dis
ease contracted in the service OF the United
States subsequent to the twenty-seventh
day Of July, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, unless the person who was wounded
or contracted the disease was in the
line of duty; and, it in the military ser
vice, was at the time actually in the field,
or on the march, or at some post, fort.
or garrison, or en- route by direction Of
competent authority to some post, fort or
garrison; or, if in the naval service, was
at the time borne on the books OF some
ship or other vessel Of the United States, at
sea or in harbor, actually in commission, or
was at some naval station, or on his way,
by direction of competent authority, to the
United States, or to some other vessel, or
naval station, or hospital.
Sec. 9. That the pension for total disa-
bility shall be as follows, namely: For
lieutenant colonel and all officers of higher
rank in the military service and in the ma
rine corps, and for captains, and all officers
OF higher rank, commander, surgeon, pay !
master, and chief engineer, respectively |
ranking with commander by law, lieutenant |
and master commanding, IN
for major in the military service and in the |
marine corps, and lieutenant, surgeon, pay |
master, and chief engineer, respectively |
ranking with lieutenant by law, and passed |
surgeon in the naval service. |
twenty-five dollars per month; for captain |
in the military service and in the marine |
corps, chaplain in the army, and provost |
professor OF mathematics, master,
assistant surgeon, assistant paymaster, and
chaplain in the naval service, twenty dol
lars per month; for first lieutenant in the |
military service and in the marine corps,
acting assistant or contract surgeon, and |
deputy provost marshal, seventeen dol
lars per month; for second lieutenant |
in the military service and in the marine |
corps, first assistant engineer, ensign, and
pilot in the naval service, and enrolling
officer, fifteen dollars per month; for cadet |
passed midshipman. midship-
men, clerks Of admirals and paymasters,
and of other officers commanding vessels,
second and third assistant engineer, mas
ter's mate, and all warrant officers in the
naval service, ten dollars per month; and
for all enlisted men whose rank or office is
not mentioned in this section, eight dollars
per month; and the masters, pilots, engi
neers, sailors. and crews upon the gunboats
the pension allowed herein tc those Of like
rank in the naval service; and every COM
nissiOned officer of the army, navy, or ma
rine corps shall receive such and only such
pensions as is herein provided for the rank
he held at the time he received the injury,
Or contracted the disease which resulted in
The disability, on account Of which he may
be entitled to pension; and any commits
sion or presidential appointment, regularly
sSueu 10 SUCH person, Shall De tdkcu W
determine his rank from and after the date,
ls given in the body Of the commission or
appointment conferring said rank; pro-
vided, that a vacancy existed in the rank
hereby conferred; that the person commits
ioned was not SO disabled for military
.uty; and that he did not willtully neglect
II refuse to be mustered.
SEC. 5. That for the period commencing
uly fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty
our, and ending July third, eighteen hun
red and seventy-two, those persons entitled
0 less pension than hereinafter men
oned. who shall have lost both feet in the
Military or naval service and in the line OF
- Ill ha anfifled To a. NPnSiOu OF