The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-13
THE NEW PENSION LAW.

AN ACT to provide that all pensions on
account of death, or wounds received,
or disease contracted in the service OF
the United States during the late war
of the rebellion, which have been grant
or which shall hereafter be granted,
shall commence from the date of death
or discharge from the service OF the
United States; for the payment OF ar
rears of pensions, or other purposes.
BsH enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of The United States Of An'er''
ca in Congress assembled, That all pensions
which have been grated under the gen
eral laws regulating pensions, or may
hereafter be granted, in consequence OF
death from cause which originated IN
the United States Service during the
continuance of the late war of the rebel.
lion, or in consequence of wounds, inJur-
les, or disease received or contracted in
said service during said war of the rebel
lion, shall commence from the date Of the
death or discharge from said service Of
the person on whose account the claim
has been or shall hereafter be granted,
or from the termination of the right of
the party having prior title to such PEN
sion; Provided, The rate Of pension for
the intervening time for which arrears
Of pensions are hereby granted shall be
the same per month for which the pen
sion was originally granted.
SEC 2. That the Commissioner of PEN
sions is hereby authorized and directed
to adopt such rules and regulations for
for the payment of the arrears OF PEN
sions hereby granted as will be necessary
to cause to be paid to such pensioners, or
if the pensioners shall have died, to the
person or persons entitled to the same,
all such arrears of pension as the pen
sioner may be, or would have been enti.
tied to under this act,
SEC. 3. That section forty seven hun
dred and seventeen of the Revised Stat
utes, which provides that mo claim for
pension not prosecuted to successful is
sue within five years from the date OF Ill
ing the same shall be admitted without
record evidence from the War or Navy
Department of the injury or the disease
which resulted in the disability or death
of the person on whose account the claim
is made; Provided, That in any case in
which the limitation prescribed by this
section bars the further prosecution of
the claim, the claimant may present, ,thro'
the Pension Office, to the Adjutant Gen
eral of the Army or the Surgeon General
of the Navy, evidence that the disease or
injury which resulted in the disability or |
death of the person on whose account the |
claim is made originated in the service
and in the line of duty; and if such evil
denCe is deemed satisfactCr by the officer
to whom it may be submitted, he shall
cause record of the fact so proved to be
made, and a copy Of the same to be
to the Commissioner of Pen
sions, and the bar to the prosecution of
the claim shall thereby be removed" be,
and the same is hereby, repealed.
SEC. 4. No claim agent or other person
shall be entitled to receive any Compen-
tion for services in making application
for arrears of pension.
SEC. 5. That all acts or parts of acts so
far as they may conflict with the prvis
ons of this act be, and the esame are here
BY, repealed.