The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-09

prior to the fourteenth Gay o.
July, eighteen hundred and sixty
two if applying on account of chaplain
Of the army, the right shall not be held tt
have accrued prior to the ninth day o
April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; i
Applying on account of an enlisted soldier
who was not mustered, or non-enlistec
man in temporary service, their right shall
net be held to have accrued prior to the
fourth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty
fur; if applying on account of an acting
assistant or contract surgeon, their RICH,
shall not be held to have accrued prior to
the third day of March, eighteen hundred
and sixty-five /; if applying on account Of
persons enlisted as teamsters, wagoners,
artifcers, hospital stewards, or farriers
their right shall not be held to have &C.
ciued prior to the sixth of day of June,
eighteen hundred and sixty-siX and the
right of all classes of claimants, applying
on account of provost-marshal, deputy
provost-marshal, or enrolling officer,
shall not be held to have accrued prior to
the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hun
bred and sixty-six Provided, That the
right of widow or dependent mother who
married prior, and did not apply till subse-
quent to the twenty-seventh day of July,
eighteen hundred and sixtY-eight, shall not
be held to have accrued prior to that date.
SEC. II. That it shall be the duty of the
Commissioner of Pensions, upon any APP
plication by letter or otherwise by or on
behalf of any pensioner entitled to arrears
of pension under the fifteenth section of
this act, or, If any such pensioner shall have
died, upon similar application by or on
behalf of any person entitled to receive the
accrued pension due such pensoner at his
or her death, TO pay or cause to be paid to
such pensioner, OF other person, all such
arrears of pension as the pensioner may be
entitled to, or Gf dead would have been
entitled to under the provisions Of said Sec
ton had he or she survived f.; and no claim
agent or other person shall be entitled to
receive any compensation for services in
making application for arrears of pension.
SEC. IS. That the provisions of this
act in respectto the rates Of pension are
hereby extended to pensioers whose right
to pension accrued under general acts
passed since the war of the Revolution and
prior to the fourth of March, eighteen hun
,dred md sixty-one, to take effect from and
after the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six; and that the wild
ows of revolutionary soldiers and sailors
receiving less sum shall be paid at the
rate of eight dollars per month from and
after the twenty-seventh day Of July,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
SEC. 10. That in all cases in which
the cause of disability or death originated
in the service prior to the fourth day OF
March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
and an application for pension shall not
have been filed within three years from the
discharge or death of the person on whose
account the claim is made, or within three
years of the termination of apension pre-
viouslY granted on account Of the service
and death of the same person, the pension
shall commence from the date of filing, by
the party prosecuting the claim, the last
paper requisite to establish the same:
Provided, That no claim allowed prior to
the sixth day of June, eighteen hundred
and sixtY-slx, shall be affected by any,
thing herein contained.
Sec. 20. That nothing in this act shall
be so construed as to allow more than one
pension ct the same time to the same per-
son or to persons entitled jointly; but any
pensioner who shall so elect may surrender
his or her certificate, and receive, in lieu
thereof, certificate for any other pension
to which he or size would have been enti-
tied had not the surrendered certificate GER
tifcate been issued: Provided, That all
payments previously made for any period
covered by the new certificate shall be de-
Quoted from the amount allowed by said
certificate. .I.. ......
Sec. 81. That declarations of pension
claimants shall be made before a court of
record, or before some officer thereof hav-
ing custody of its seal, said officer hereby
being fully authorized and empowered to
administer and certify any oath or affirma-
ton relating to any pension or applica-
ton therefor: Provided, That the Com
missioner of Pensions may designate in
localities more than twenty-five miles dis
tant from any place at which such court is
holden, persons duly qualified to admins
ters oaths, before whom declarations may
be made and testimony taken, and may
accept declarations of claimants residing in
foreign countries, made before United
States minister or consul, or before some
officer of the country duly authorized to
administer oaths for general purposes, and
whose official character and signature shall
be duly authenticated by the certificate
of a United States minister or consul; and
declarations in claims of Indians made be-
fore United States agent ; and declara-
tons in claims under the act of February
fourteenth eighteen hundred and seventy
one, made before an officer duly authorized
to administer oaths for general purposes,
when the applicants, by reason of infrmity
of age, are unable to travel: Procided
That any declaration made before an
officer duly authorized to administer oaths
for general purposes shall be accepted to
exempt claim from the limitation as to
date of filing as prescribed in the fifteenth
section of this act.
SEC. %. That the Commissioner of
Pensions, on application being made to him
in person or by letter by any claimant or
applicant for pension, bounty.Iand, or
., her allowance required by law to be adj
E met, d or paid by the Pension Office, shall
}u such person, free of all expense to
him or be- all such printed instructions
and forms 10 ~ @y be necessary in estab-
fishing and obtainu., s t cain anu on On
the issuing Of certifica, o. pe ehs OF o.
a bounty-land warrant, % s"a an,, ioa.t
with notify the claimant L. apPi,ca tn,
and also the agent or attorne, .;eo .to
case, if there be one, that such Ger. ~nJ
has been issued, or allowance made, l. 1N
the date and amount thereof.
SEC. %. That no money on account of
pension shall be paid to any person, or to
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