The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-11

mother, or was by law bound TO suca sup
port, and that n father or minor brolher or
sister shall, in like manner and under like
conditions. be assumed to have been de-
pendent, except that the income which
was derived or dcrivablc from his actual
or possible manual labor shall be taken
into account in estimating fathers
means OF independents Provided further,
That the pension allowed to any person
on account OF his or her independence as
hcrCinhcfOrc provided shall not be paid
for any period during which it shall not
be necessary as means OF adequate sub.
sstenCc."
Tho thirty.first section to prevent ir-
rcgularitles on the part OF agents and at
torneys, has been revised and rewritten
for the better protection Of persons en-
titled TO pensions. 1t now reads as fol-
lows:
THAT no agent or attorney or other per.
son instrumental in prosecuting any claim
for pension or bounty land shall demand
or receive any other compensation for mis-
services in prosecuting claim for pension
or bounty land than such as the Commits.
sioner OF Pensions shall direct 10 be paid
TO him, not exceeding twenty-five dollars;
and any agent or attorney or any other
person instrumental in prosecuting any
claim for pension or bounty land, who
shall directly or indirectly contract for,
demand, or receive, or retain any greater
compensation for his services or inStru-
mentality in prosecuting claim for pen
sion or bounty land than Is hereinbelorc
provided, or who shall wrOngfully with
hold from pCusiOner or claimant the
whole or any part OF the pension or claim
allowed and due such pensiOner or claim
ant, or The land warrant Issued to any
such claimant, shall be deemed guilty Of a
high misdemeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof, shall, for every such ofFense, be
fined not exceeding five hundred dollars,
or imprisoned at hard labor not exceed.
ing two years, or both, at the discretion of
the court. And il any guardian having
the charge aud custody OF the pension Of
his ward shall embGZzlc the same in VIC
ation or his trust, or fraudulently convert
Inc same to his own use, he shall be pun.
shed by fine not exceeding two thousand
dollars or Imprisonment at hard labor for
a term not exceeding five years, or both,
at the discretion Of the court"
Another act, approved on the same day
provides for the placing oil colored per
sons, who enlisted in the army, on the
same footing as other soldiers, as to boun-
" and pension. 1t provides that all COL
bred persons who enlisted in tho army
Turing the late war, and who arc now pro.
libited from receiving bounty and pen
lion, on account OF being borne on the
oils Of regiments as Slaves" shall be
placed on the same footing as to bounty
md pension, as though they had not been
jlaves at the date Of their enlistment.
u mother could not be held de-
pendent on the son when both were
jlaves. This law applies more to bounty
han 70 pension. The latter will not be
materially effected. The construction Of
he law by the Second Comptroller is,
hat 1t applies only to claimants who were
slaves. fla black enlisted he could not
claim q bounty II he were slave. II he
survived he can now so claim, but his
mother or widow cannot.