The Portland daily press., 1873-06-09
GENERAL NATuRE-No. Ge.l

IcidltnS 10 PENSIONS.
B. Z enacted by the Senate and H,mse IN i9 2o
ssntGtiues Qfthe United States q 4Aer.c tcer of
gress assembled, That if the aey 81 md militia
the army, including regulars, arine COINS or any
enlisted man however employed, in the military OF
naval service of the United otei vi or moi d;Saad
corns whether regularly mustered OF not, ulsaoeu
nv r.,son of any wound or injury received or dls,
case rlcted, while In the service OF the onlteo
e. an in the line of duty; any master serving
~ " ;, ,,h,at or any pilot, engineer, sailor or other
$50 not regularly mustered serving upon any
or waT-vessel of the United States. disabled
Sv any wound or injury received or otherwise inca
w "' ,Iile in the line of duty, for procuring his
.ste zee by manual labor; any person not an en-
listed soldier in the army, serving for the time being
a. member of the militia of any State under orders
Of officer of the United States, or who volunteered
for the time being to serve with any regularly organ
lied military naval force of the United States,
who otherwise volunteered and rendered service in
any engagement with rebels Indians, disabled in
consequence of wounds injury received in the line
Of duty in such temporary service; any acting assist
ant or contract surgeon, disabled by any wound OF
injury received or disease contracted in the line of
duty while actually performing the duties of assist
ant surgeon acting assistant surgeon with any mil
tary force in the field or in transitu or in hospital,
any provost deputy provost,mar>ha or en-
rolling officer, disabled by reason OF any wound or
injury received in the discharge of his duty to pro-
cure subsistence by manual labor, has been since
the fourth day of Mnrch, eighteen hundred and six
ty-one, shall hereafter be impaired by reason oil
such disability. he SHALL upon making due proof OF
the fact, according to such forms and regulations
are or may be provided by and 10 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 6
for Inferior disability, except in cases Of perma-
nent specific disability for which the rate Of pension
that D divided for total disability, to commence as
hereinafter provided, and to continue during the
istence of the disability: Prorided, That no claim
Of State militiaman, nOn-enlisted person. Oh &C
count OF disability from wounds or injury received In
battle with rebels OF Indians, while temporarily
dering ervice shall be valid unless prosecuted to
hi In no
cen hundred and seventy-fo And prorided. fur
Their, That no person shall be entitled to pension
CONTRACTED in the service of the United States suisse
quent to the twenty-seventh day OF July, eighteen
wonded or contracted the disease was in the line Of
duty, and if in the military service, was at the time
actually in the field, or on the march, or at some
post fort, or garrison; or, in the naval service,
was at the time DO ne the books of some ship or
other vessel of the United States at in harbor
actually in commission or was at some naval station
TO the United States or to some other vessel or naval
station, or hospital.
SEC. 2. That the pension for total disability shall
be as follows namely For lieutenant-colonel and all
officers of higher rank In the military service and in
the marine corps, and tor captain and all officers OF
higher rank. COMMANDER surgeon, p:aymaster, and
chief engineer respectively ranking with commander
by law, lieutenant commanding and master COM
manding in the naval service, thirty dollars per
month for major in the military service and in the
marine corps, and lieutenant, surgeon, paymaster,
and chief engineep respectively ranking with lieu
tenant UY law, anu assistant surgeon Ill ID6
naval service, twenty-five dollars per month; for
captain in the military service and in the marine
corps, chaplain in the army, and provost marshal
professor of mathematics, master assistant surgeon
assistant paymaster and chaplain in the naval ser
vice. twent dollars per month; for first lieutenant in
the military service and in the marine corps acting
assistant contract su geon, and deputy provost
marshal, seventeen dollars per month; for second
lieutenant in the military service and in the marine
Iss an
per month; for cadet-midshipmap, passed midship-
man, midshipmen clerks of admirais and payma'-
ters and of other officers commanding vessels second
and third assistant engineer, masters 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, engineers sailors,
and crews upon the gnnboats and war-vessels shall
be EMIT ed to receive the pension allowed herein to
those Of like rank in the naval service; and every
commissioned officer of the army, navy, marine
CO ps, shall receive such and only such pensions is
herein provided for the rank he held at the time he
received the injury contracted the disease which
resulted in the disability, on account of which he
may be entitled to pension; and any commission
presidential appointment, regularly issued to such
person, shall be taken to determine his ra~is from
and after the date as given in the body of the COM
mission appointment comforting said rank: Pro-
uded, That vacancy existed in the rank thereby
conferred; that the person commissioned was t SO
disabled for military duty; and that he did not viii
fully neglect refuse to be mustered.
SEC. 5. That for the period commencing July
fourth, eighteen hundred and sxty-four, and ending
June third eighteen hundred and seventy-two, those
persons entitled to a less pension than hereinafter
mentioned who shall have lost both feet in the mill
tary naval service and in the line of duty, shall be
entitled to pension of twenty dollars per month
for the same period those persons who under Xix
circumstances, shall have lost both hands or the
sight OF both eyes, shall be entitled to pension OF
twenty-five dollars per month; and for the period
commencing March third, eighteen hundred and six
ty-ive aud ending June thru. eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, those persons who under like circum-
stances shall have lost one hand and foot shall
be entitled to pension of twenty dollars per month
and for the period commencing june sixth, eighteen
teen hundred and seventytwo, those persons who I'M
der like circumstances shall have lost one hand or one
foot, shall be entitled to pension Of fifteen dollars
per month; and for the period commencing June
SIKH, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and ending
June third eighteen hundred and seyeuty-two those
persons entitled to less pension than hereinafter
mentioned, who by reason of injury received or dis
ease contracted in the military naval service OF the
United States and in the line of duty, shall have
been permanently and totally disabled in both hands
who shall have lost the sight of eye the other
having been previously lost, or who shall have been
otherwise SO totally and permanently disabled tC
render them utterly helplass, nearly to
quire regular personal aid and at enhance of another
person, Shall be entitled to pension OF twenty five
dollars per month; and for the same period thost
who under like circumstances shall have been totally
and permanently disabled in both feet, or in one
sand and in one foot, or otherwise SO disabled to
nactatei for the performance of any manual
so much as to require regular personal
shall be entitled to pension OF
NTH; and for the same period
circumstances shall have
disabled in one hand,
as to render their
equivalent TO the
TO pension OF
eighteen
by law
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