Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-17


q term not exceeding three years, or ,py pot1,
Of fhe.discretion of the court before whom such
conviction shall be had and no sum Oh money
due, or TO become due, to any pensloner under
the laws aforesaid ssalt pe sDe 70 a.tacn-
eouitable process whatever, whether the same
rema;ns with the Pension Office, or
any officer or agent thereof or is in course of
Transmission to the pensioner entitled thereto, Z
but shall inure wholly to the benefit of such
pensioner. Az .ETVETFk
! Sec. 81. That in all cases of application for
the payment of pensions.to invalid pensioners
to the fourth day of September of and odd year,
the certificate of an examining surgeon duly
appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, or
of a surgeonof the army or navy, stating the
sion was originally granted, describing it. and
the degree Of such disability at the time of maxi
ing the certificate shall be required to accom-
pany the vouchers. and q duplicate thereof shall
be fled in the Office of the Commissioner of
Pensions; andif in a case of continued disa.
bility it shall be stated at a degree below that
for which it originally granted, or was last paid,
the pensioner shall only be paid for the quarter,
then due at the rate stated in the certificate:
Provided, That when pension shall be granted,
for a disability consequent upon the loss of a
limb, or other essential portion of the body, or
for other cause which cannot in whole or In
part be removed, or when a disability is certi-
fed by competent examining surgeons, to the
satisfaction of the Commissioners OF Pensions to
have become permanent In q degree equal to
the whole rate of pension, the above certificate
shall not be necessary to entitle the pensioner
to payment: And provided further,s That this
section shall not be construed TO prevent the
Commissioner of Pensions from requiring q
more frequent examination if in his judgment,
Sec. IS: That the Commissioner of Pensions
be, and he is hereby, empowered to appoint, at
his discretion, civil surgeons to make the peri
odical examinations of pensioners which are, or
may be, required by law, and to examine ap-
plicants for pension, where he shall deem an ex-
animation by a surgeon appointed by him nee
essary; and the fee for such examinations, and
the requisite certificates thereof in duplicate,
including postage on such as are transmitted to
pension agents, shall be two dollars. which shall
be paid by the agent for paying pensions, in the
district within which the pensioner or claimant
resides, out of any money appropriated for the
payment of pensions, under such regulations
as the Commissioner of Pensions may pre-,
scribe. .Wz8l
Sec sc. That the Commissioner of Pensions
be authorized 10 organize, at his discretion,
boards of examining surgeons, not to exceed
three members and that each member OF
board thus organized who shall have been &C
tually present and made, in connection with
other members or member, on ordered or peri
odical examination, shall be entitled to the fee
of one dollar, on the receipt of a proper certif-
cate of said examination by the Commissioner Of
Pensions. 4-,.-. .ss.r---y z-F ga
Sec. 81. That examining surgeons duly APP
pointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, and
such other qualified surgeons as may be en-
ployed in the Pension Office, may be required
by him, from time to time, as he shall deem for
the interests of the government, to make spe-
cial examinations of pensioners, or applicants
for pension, and such examinations shall have
precedence over previous examinations, wheth-
er special or biennial but when injustice is al
legged to have been done by an examination so
ordered, the Commissioner of Pensions may, at
his discretion, select board of three duly ap>
pointed examining surgeons, who shall neet at
place to be designated by him, and shall re-
view such cases as may be ordered before them
on appeal from any special examination as
aforesaid, and the decision of such board shall
be final on the question so submitted thereto,
provided the Commissioner approve, the same,
The compensation of each such surgeons shall
be three dollars and shall be paid out of any
appropriations made for the payment of pen
slons, in the same manner as the ordinary fees
of appointed surgeons are or may be author
lied to be paid. .a.ll1HAaof IA
Sec. 80. That the Secretary ofthe Interior be,
and is hereby, authorized to appoint a duly
qualified surgeon as medical referee, who, un-
der the control and direction of the Commis-
sioner of Pensions shall have charge of the ex-
animation and revision of the reports of exam
ming surgeons, and such other duties touching
medical and surgical questions in the Pension
Office, as the interests of the service may de-
1nand ana his salary snail be Two thousand I'VE
hundred dollars per annum. And the Secretary
of the Interior is further authorized to appoint
such qualified surgeons mot exceeding FOUR as
the exigencies of the service may require, who
may perform the duties of examining surgeons
when so required, and who shall be borne upon
the rolls as clerks of the fourth class: Provided,
That such appointments shall not increase the
clerical force of said bureau. bsgss-s,
Sec. SO. That all acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent or in conflict with the foregoing provis-
ions of this act are hereby repealed. " p
Approved, March 8, 1873. 7r,,--s -lasr1
Sec 16. That in constituting the preceding Sec
ton, the right of persons entitled to pensions
shall be recognized as accruing at the date
therein stated for the commencement of such
pension. and that the right of dependent IA
ther or dependent brother to pension shall not
in any case be held to have accrued prior to the
day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty six;
and the right of all other classes of claimants,
If APPLYING on account of the death Of a persOn