The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23

valid unless prosecuted to successful issue
prior to the fourth day OF July, eighteen hun
dred and seyenty,f9ur; Ard provided further,
Thot no person shall be entitled to pension ~
reason OF wounds or injury received or disease
contracted In the service OF the United states
subsequent to the twenty-seventh. day Of July,
person who was wounded or contracted the dis
ease was in line OF duty and, lin the military
service, was at the time actually In the field, on
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, II In the ma
val 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 OF some naval ST. ton, on his wa by d.
rectiOn OF competent authority, to the United
states, or TO some other vessel, or naval Station
or hospital
SIC. ?. That the pension Tor total dlsab lily
shall bc as follows, namely For lieutenant
colonel and all officers Ui higher rank In the
military service and In the marine corps, and
for captain, ana all Olicers OF higher rank, COM
mandcr, surgeon, paymuster, ana chief engineer,
respectively ranking with commander by law,
Lieutenant commanding and master command
Ing, in the naval service, thirty dollars per
month"; FOR major In the military service and In
the marine corps, and lieutenant, surgeon, pay
master, aud chlef engineer, respectively rank
Ing with Lieutenant by law, and passed assis-
tant 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 marshal, professor OF math-
ematics, master, assistant surgeon, assistant
paylnastcr ana chaplain IN the naval service,
twenty dollars per month Tor frSt lieutenant
IN the military service and In the marine corps,
acting assistant or contract surgeon, and depu-
~ prOvOSt-marShal, seventeen dollars 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 cadct-mldshpman, passed mldshlpman, mid
shipmcn, clerks Of!admtrals and paymasters,and
of other officers commanding vessels, second
aud 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 mas
tcrS, pilots, engineers, sailors, and crews upon
the gtnbOats and wai-vcsscls shall be entitled
| to receive the pension allowed herein to those
OF like rank In the naval service ;and every COM
misslonod officer of the army navy, or marine
corps, shall receive such and only such pensions
as Is herein provided for the rank he hold at the
| time he received the injury, or contracted the
disease which resulted In the disability, on ac-
count Of which he may be entitled TO pension
ana any commission or presidential appoint
nent, regularly issued to such person, shall be
taken to determine his rank from and after the
date, as given In the body Of the commission or
appointment comforting said ranks Pr0rided,
That vacancy existed in the rank thereby
conicrrcd That the person commissioned was
not so disabled for military duty; and that he
did not wlliully neglect or refuse TO be mus
tered.
(rO be continued.)