New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-03
date OF filing prescribed in the fifteenth sec

person or by letter by any claimant or ap-
| plicant for pension, bounty land, or other
| allowance required by law to be adjusted
or paid by the Pension Office, shall furnish
ouch person, free of all expense to him or her,
| all such printed Instructions and forms as
may be necessary n establishing and OBJ
| tanning said claim; and on the issuing OF
certificate Of pension, or of a bounty land
| warrant, he shall forthwith notify the
| claimant or applicant, and also the agent
| or attorney in the case. if there be one. that
such certificate has been issued, or allow
elce made, and the date and amount
thereof.
SEC -. That no money on account OF
pension shall be pad to any person. or TO
the widow. children or heirs OF any de-
ce ased person. who in any manner vo.un-
tarily engaged in, or aided or abetted. the
late rebellion agains. the authority Of the
United States.
SEC. "a. That no claim for pension not
prosecuted 20 successful issue within
five years trom the date Of fling
the same shall be admitted without
record evidence from the War or
Navy Department Of the injury or the
disease which resulted in the disability or
death Of the person on whose account the
claim is made; provided, that in any case
in which the limitation prescribed by this
section bars the further prosecution OF the
claim. the claimant may present through
the Pension Office, to the Adiutant General
OF the army or the Surgeon General OF the
navy, evidence that the disease or injury
which resulted in the disability or death OF
the person on whose account the claim is
made originated in the service and IN The
line of duty; and if such evidence is deemed
satisfactory 10y the officer 70 whom it may
be submitted, he shall cause record OF the
tact SO proved 20 be made, and copy OF
the same to be transmitted to the Commits
sioner of Pensions, and the bar 70 the prose-
cutlon OF the claim shall thereby be re-
moved.
SEC. 80 Tia. if any pensiorer, OF any
person entitled to q pension, who during
the tendency of his application therefor has
died since March fourth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-one. or shall hereafter die, his
widow, or if no widow, his child or children
under sixteen years OF age at the time OF
his death, shall lie entitled to receive the
accrued pension to the date OF
death, such accrued pension shall
not be considered as part of the assets OF
the estate of deceased, nor liable 70 be APP
piled to the payment of the debts OF said
estate in any case whatever, but shall inure
to TIE sole and exclusive benefit of the
widow or children; and if no widow OF
child survive, no payment whatsoever OF
the accrued pension shall be made or
allowed, except so much as may be neces-
sarv to reimburse the person who bore the
expenses of the last sickness and burial OF
the decedent, in cases where he did not
leave suthclens assets 10 meet sucn eA-
penses.
SEC. 26. That the failure of any pensioner
to claim his or her pension for three years
after the same shall have become due shall
De deemed presumptive evidence that such
pension has legally terminated by reason OF
the pensioners death. remarriage, recovery
from the disability, or otherwise, and the
pensioners name shall be stricken from the
list of pensioners, subject to the right OF
restora ton to the same on new appilca-
ton by the pensioner, or, II the pensloner
is dead, BY the widow or minor children
entitled to receive the accrued pension,
accompanied by evidence satisfactorily ac-
counting for the failure to claim such pen.
sion and by medical evidence in cases OF
invalids who were not exempt from biennial
examinations as to the continuance OF the
disability.
SEC. u. That when the rate, commence
ment and duration OF pension allowed by
special act are fixed by such act, they shall
not be subject 70 be varied by the pgOvls-
ions and limitations Of the general pension
laws, but when not thus fixed the rate and
continuance OF the pension shall be subject
to variation in accordance with the general
laws ard its commencement shall date
from the passage of the special act, and the
Commissioner of Pensions shall, upon salts
factory evidence that fraud was perpetrated
in obtaining such special act suspend pay
men. thereupon until the prOprety OF re-
pealing the same can be cOHsldereu Dy
Congress.
SEC. % That The term Of limitation pre-
scrbed by sections sixteen and twenty
three of this act shall, in pending claims OF
Indians, be extended to two years from and
after the passage of this act; that all proof
which has heretofore been taken before an
Indian agent, or before an officer of any
tribe, competent according to the rules OF
said tribe to administer oaths, shall be
held and regarded by the Pension office, in
the examining and determining OF claims
of Indians now or file, as OF the same va
Editv as if taken before an officer recOg-
nized by the law at the time as compe
tent to administer oaths; that all proof
wanting in said claim hereafter, as
we'll as in those tiled after the passage
of this act shall be taken before the agent
OF the tribe to which the claimants respect
lively belong; that in regard to dates, all
applications of Indians now on file be
treated as though they were made before
a competent officer at their respective
dates, and if found to be in all other re-
| spects conclusive, they shall be- allowed;
| and that Indians shall be exempted from
| the obligation to take the oath to support
! the constitution of the United States, re-
! CURED by the act of February fourteenth,
| eighteen hundred and seventy-one, provid-
| ing for pensions to certain soldiers and
| sailors Of the war of eighteen hundred and
| twelve. and 20 widows OF deceased soldiers.
SEC. 49, That the President shall appoint
| in the Department of the Interior, by and
| with the advice and consent OF the Senate
| a competent person, who shall be called
| the Deputy Commissioner OF Pensions,
| with an annual salary of twenty five
| hundred dollars, who shall be charged
| with such duties in the Pension bureau as
may be prescribed by the Secretary OF the
Interior or may be required by law; and
| in case of the death, resignation, absence,
or sickness of the Commissioner, his duties
shall GevOlve upon the Deputy Commls-
sioner until a successor shall be appointed.
or such absence or sickness shall cease.
SEC. 30. That the Commissioner OF Pen
sions is hereby authorized and empowered
| to detail. from time to time, clerks IN his
office to investigate suspected attempts at
! fraud on the government OF the United
| States. through and by virtue OF the provi-
sions of this or any other act OF Congress
providing tor pensions, and to aid IN prose
| cutting any person so offending, with such
| additional compensation as Is customary IN
| cases of special service: and that any person
| SO detailed shall have the power TO admin.
lister oaths and take atiidavits in the course
Of any such investigation.
| SEC. 81. That no agent or attorney OF
other person instrumental in prosecuting
any claim for pension or bounty land snail
demand or receive any other compensation
! for his services in prosecuting a claim for
pension or bounty land than such as the
| Commissioner Of Pensions shall direct to be
| paid to him. not exceeding twenty-five dol
| lars: and any agent or attorney or any othe;
| person instrument tai in prosecuting any CLAIM