The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-02-08
Very respectfully, J. \. BENTLEY,
Comm iss IGuer of Pensions.
ARREARS or PENSION APPROVED IANr.
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ARREARS OF PENSION APPROVED JANU.
AIRY -, 1879.
n ACT To provide that all pensions on
account of death, oI wounds received or
disease contracted IN the service OF the
luited states during the late war of the
rebellion, which have been granted. or
which shall hereafter be granted, shall
commence f,om the date q: death OF dis
charge from the service of the United
States, for the payment Of arrears of
pensions aud other purposes.
Bs II enacted By the Senate md House Of
Representatives. of the United Stnfs, If inner
Tea IN Congress assembled, That all pensions
which have been granted under the gen
eral laws regulating pensions. or may here
after be granted, III Consequence of death
from a cause which on mated in the United
States service during the continuance of
the late war of the rebellion, OF IN conse.
qncnce of wounds. injuries, or disease re.
ceIved or contracted IN said service during
said war Of the rebellion. shall commence
from the date Of the death Of discharge from
said service of th. person ou whose account
the claim has been or shall hereafter lee
granted, or from the termination of the
right 81 the party having pIiur title To such
pension: provided. the rate Of pension for
the intervening time for which areas of
pension are hereby granted shall Ice thu.
same per month for which the pension was
originally granted.
SEC. > That the Commissioner of Pen
sinns rs hereby authorized an,i directed iu
adopt such rules and regulations for the
payment of the arrears OF pensions hereby
granted as will be necessary To cause to bs
paid Ia such pensioners, or. if the pension
ers shall have died, To the pei SON ur per
sous entitled TO the same, all such arrears
oil pension As the peIsioner may toe. or
would have been, entitled TO under this
act.
SEC 3 That section forty srven hun
died aud seventeen Of the Revised Statutes
of the nited States which provides that
" NO claim for peusIon not prosecuted to a
successful Issue within iiys years from the
date OF nIng the same shall ba admitted
without record evidence from the War or
Navy Department of the mi rry ar the dis.
Ease which resulted i'll the disability or
death OF the person on whose account the
claim Is made; provided that III any case
III which the limitation prescribed hy shi.
section bars the further prosecution Of III.
claim. the claimant may present through
the Pension Office, TO the AdiItant General
OF the Army or the Surgeon General OF the
Navy, evidence that the disease or Iriury
III Niic uISaDlil ar death Oi
the person on whose account the claim IL
made originated in the service and IN the
line of duty; aud if such evidence is deemed
satisfactory by the officer To whom it may
be submitted, he shall cause n record of the
fact 50 proved To he made. and a copy of
the same In be transmitted to the Commits.
sioner of Pensions, and the bar Ia he prose
cution Of tue claim shall thereby be re-
moved, be, and the same is hereby, re-
pealed.
SEC 1 No claim agent or other person
shall be entitled To receive any compeusa
ton for services in making application for
arrears of pension.
SIC. !. That all Acts or parts of Acts
so far as they may conflict with the provi.
sions of this Act be, and the same are here.
by. repealed.
-ipproced january 2JN, 1879.
~ No claim for arrears under the provi-
sions of the above Act, due To a pensinnsr
already upon the rolls. will be adjusted TIL
congress shall have appropriated the money
Tor the payment of such claim.
Applications for such arrears may how
ever. bs iiled-but will receive no answer
until the claim is adjusted.
The above rules ate necessary to prevent
the work of the Off ce from becoming block
AIDED by unnecessary correspondence.
J. A. BENTLEY,
Commissioner Of Pensions.