Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-21
ARREARS OF PENSION B1LL-APPRoyED JANuApy
Ok 1870

AhntAfSo Of fENSlON BlLL-APPROVED JANUARY
25, 1879.
An Act to provide that all pensions on account
OF death, or wounds received or disease con-
traced in the service Of the United States
during the late war of the rebellion, which
have been granted, or which shall hereafter
De granted, shall commence from the date of
death or discharge from the service of the
United States; for the payment of arrears of
PENSIONS and other purposes,
BE it Enacted dy the Senate anil House of Rem.
'Tsemtatiues Of the United of 4nericu IN Con-
g'ess assembled. That all pensions which have
been granted under the general laws regulating
pensions, or may hereafter be granted, in con.
sequence of death from cause which originated
IN the United States service during the continu-
ance OF the late war OF the rebellion, or in
consequence of wounds, INJURIES or disease
received or contracted in said service duriro
SAID war Of the reb. lion, shall commence from
the date OF death or discharge from said ser.
vice OF the person on whose account the claim
has or shall hereafter be granted, or from the
termination of right of the party having prior
title to such pension; p,UUided, The rate of
pension Tor the intervening time for which ar
rears OF pensions are hereby granted shall be
the same per month for which pension was orig.
inally granted.
Sec. 2. That the commissioner of pensions
Is hereby authorized and directed to adopt
such rules and regulations for the payment
Will be necessary to cause to be paid such pen
sioners, or 1T the pensioners shall have died, to
The person or persons entitled to the same. all
SUCH arrears of pensions as the pensioner NAV
be, or would have been, entitled to under this
act
Sec g. That section forty-seven hundred and
seventeen of the revised statutes of the United
States, which provides that mo claim for pen-
sion not prosecuted to successful issue within
hve years from the date of filing, 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
oea'n OF Inc 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 claim
ant may present, through the pension office to
the adJutant general of the army, or the sur
geon general of the navy, evidence that the dis
ease or injury which resulted in the disability
or oeath 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 submitted, he shall cause record of
the facts 80 proven to be made and COPY of
the same to be transmitted to the commissioner
OF PENSIONS and the bar to the prosecution of
the claim thereby be removed" he and the
same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. No claim agent or other person shall
be entitled to receive any compensation for
services in making application 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.
Approved Jan. Is, 1879.
No claim for arrears under the provisions of
the above act, due to pensioner upon the
rolls, will be adjusted until Congress shall have
appropriated the money for the payment of
such claim.
Applications for such arrears may, however,
be filed. but will receive no answer until the
claim is adjusted.
The above rules are necessary to prevent the
work OF the office from becoming blockaded
by unnecessary correspondence
j. A. BENTLEY
IS Commissioner of Pensions.