The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-07-17

manual labor equivalent to the loss of hand 0,
foot, shall be entitled to pension offifteen dol
| lars per month.
| SEC. 4. That from and after June fourth. eiph-
| teen hundred and seventy two, all persons emit
! tied by law to less pension than hereinafter
specified, who, while in the military or naval SER
| vice Of the United States, and in line of duty,
shall have lost the sight of both eyes, or snail
have lost the sight of one eye. the sight Of the
other having been previously lost, or shall have
lost both hands, or shall have lost both feet, or
been permanently and totally disabled. in the
same, otherwise permanently and totally
disabled to render them utterly helpless, or so
nearly SO as to require the regular personal aid
and attendance Of another person, shall be enti
tied to pension of thirty one dollars and TWEEN
ty FIVE cents per month; and all persons who,
under like circumstances, shall have lost one
hand and one foot. or been totally and perma-
nently disabled in the same or otherwise so uisa
bled as to be incapacitated for performing any
manual labor, but not so much as to require reg
alar personal aid and attendance, shall be enti-
tied to pension of twenty four dollars per
month and all persons who under like 4circum-
stances, shall have lost one hand or one foot, or
been totally and permanently disabled in the
same, or otherwise SO disabled as to render their
incapacity to perform manual labor equivalent to
the loss of hand or foot, shall be entitled to a
pension of eighteen dollars per month PROVIDED,
ffhat all persons who, under like circumstances,
have lest al eg above the knee, and lii conse-
quence thereof are so disabled that they cannot
use artificial limbs, shall be rated in the second
class and receive twenty four dollars per month
and all persons who, under like circumstances,
shall have lost the hearing of both ears, shall be
entitled to a pension of thirteen dollars per
month: Provided. That the pension for q dsabil-
ity not permanent, equivalent in degree to any
provided for in this section, shall, during the
continuance of the disability in such degree, be
at the same rate as that herein provided for
permanent disability of like degree Prooided fur
Their. That except in cases Of permanent specific
disabilities. no increase of pension shall be al
lowed to commence prior to the date of the ex
aiming surgeons certificate and that in this,
as well as all other cases, the certificate of an
examining surgeon, or Of d board of examining
surgeons, shall be subject to the approval of the
Commissioner of Pensions.
SEC. 5. That the rate of eighteen dollars per
month may be proportionately divided for any
degree of disability established for which the
second section of this acS- makes no provision.
Sec 6. That officers absent sick leave, and
enlisted men absent slck.furlough, or on vet
eran farlough, while with the organization TO
which they belong, shall be regarded in the adj
mnistration of the pension laws, in the same man
ner as if they were in the field CT hospital.
SEC 7. That the period of service of all per-
sons entitled to the benefit Of the pension laws,
or on account of whose death any person may be-
come entitled to pension, shall be- constructed
to extend to the time of disbanding the organl-
cation to which such persons belonged, or until
their actual discharge for other cause than the
expiration of the service of such organization.
Sec That if any person embraced within
the provision Of the first section of this act has
died since the fourth day of March, eighteen
hundred and sixty one, shall hereafter Gle, by.
reason of any wound, injury, OR disease which,
under the conditions and limitations of said sec
ton, would have entitled him to an Invalid PEN
sion had he been DISABLED, his widow, Or if there
be Il widow, or in case of her death, without
payment 70 her of any part of THE, pension mere
matter meJtloned, his child or children, uader
sixteen years Of age shall be entitled to. receive
the same pension as the husband or father would
have been entitled to had he been totally disa-
bled, to commence from the death of the hus-
band or father, to continue to the widow during
her widowhood, and to his child or children I'm
til they severally attain the age of sixteen
years, and no longer, and that if the widow re-
marry the child or children shall be entitled
from the date at remarriage. That the proyis-
ions of this act are hereby extended to and
made to embrace the officers and priyates of the
Missouri State militia, and the provisional Mis-
souri, militia, disabled by reason of injury re-
ceived or disease contracted in the line of duty
United States focres, and the widow children
of any such persons. dying of injury received or
disease contracted under the circumstances here
in set forth shall be entitled to the benefits Of
this act PROVIDED, That the pensions|oa account
| of such militia shall not commence prior to the
date of the passage of this act That the pro-
visions of this section shall be SO interpreted as
to apply to the widows, child children of Off
GERS and privates of the Missouri State militia
Il t1,o,, tho
band or father wss wounded, or contracted the
disease of which he died, while in the service o.
| the government of the United States.
| SEC. 8. That the pension Of widows shall bt
| increased from and after the twenty fifth day O.
July, eighteen hundred and sixty six, at the rat
of two dollars per month for each child under thu
| age Of sixteen years. of the husband on accoun
of whose death the claim has be- or shaf be
granted. And in every case in which the deceas
| ed husband has left, or shall leave, no widow, o.
where his widow has died or married again, o.
where she has been deprived of her pension I'm
der the provisions of the pension law, the pen
sion granted to such child or children shall b.
increased to the same amount per month tina
ws-ld be allowed under the foregoing provision
to the widow, if living and entited.to pension
| P~nnided That the additional pension herell
granted to the widow account Of the child
children Of the husband by former wife shall
owhood as she has been shall be, charged witt
the maiatenance of such child children; TO
any period during which she has not been,
shall not be, so charged, it shall be granted am
paid to the guardian of such child or children
Provided further, Tiat p widow or guardian
whom increase Of pension has been, or sha
hereafter be, granted account of minor chill
dren, shall not be deprived thereof by reason Q
their being maintain ed in whole or III part at I'd
| of a tofa he GGuca
tional institution, or IN any institution organize
for the care of soldiers orphans.
SEc. TO- That in the administration OF tn
pension laws, child, en- born before the mafrihg
! of their parents, if acknowledged by the fain'
, before or after the marriage. shall be deemed l.
climate
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