River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-02-06
THE PENSION ARREAR BILL.
The following is a full text of the
aw providing for payment of pension

The following is full text of the
law providing for payment of pension
arrears:
AN ACT to provide that all pensions on account
Of death or wouua, received or disease contract
ed in the service Of the United States during the
late war of the Rebellion which have been grant,
ed or which shalt hereafter be granted, shall
commence from tine date OF death or discharge
from the service Of the United States for the pay
ment of arrears Of pensions and for other pur-
poses.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate aud
House Of Representatives. ofthe United
States Of America: That all persons
who have been granted under general
laws regulating pensions, or may here
after be granted, in consequence of
death from the cause which originat-
ed in the United States service during
the continuance of the late rebellion
or IN consequence of wounds. injuries,
or disease received or contracted in
SAID service during said war or rebel
lion, shall commence from date of dis
charge from said service of person on
whose account the claim has been or
shall be granted, or from the termina-
ton of the right of the party having
prior title to such pension, provided
the rate of pension for intervening
time for which arrears of pension are
hereby granted shall be the same per
month for which the pension was
originally granted.
Sec. 2.-That the commissioner of
pensions is hereby authorized and di-
rected to adopt such rules and regula-
lions for the payment Of the arrears of
pensions hereby granted as will be nee
essary to cause to be paid to such pen
sioners or if pensioners shall have
died to the person or persons entitled
TO the same, all such arrears of pension
as the pensioner may be or would
have been entitled to under this act.
Sec. 3.--That section AIT, revised
statutes, which provides that no claim
for pension not prosecuted 10 success
full issue within five years from the
date of filing the same, shall be admit
ted without recorded evidence from
the war or navy department of injury
or disease which resulted in the disa-
bility or death of the person on whose
account the claim is made, provided
that in any case on which the limita-
ton prescribed by this section bars
further prosecution of claim. The
claimant may present, through the
pension office, to the adjutant general
of the army or surgeon general of the
navy, evidence that the disease or in
jury which resulted i'll 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 evidence is deemed satisfactory
by the officer to whom it may be sub
mitted, he shall cause the record of
the fact so proved to be made, and the
copy of the same transmitted to the
commissioner of pensions, and the bar
to the prosecution of the claim shall
thereby be removed and the same is
hereby repealed.
Sec. 4.--No claim agent or other per-
son shall be entitled to receive CON-
pensation for services i'll making appli-
cation for arrears of pensions.
Sec. 5.--That all acts or parts of acts,
so far as they may conflict with the
provisions of this act, be and the same
are hereby repealed.