Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-02-12
The Pension bill.


The following is the full text of the pen.
sion bill, which recently passed both houses
of congress, and was signed by the presi-
dent:
AN act to provide that all pensions on &C.
count 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 granted or
which shall hereafter be granted, shall
commence from the date of death or dis
charge from the service of the United
States for the payment OF arrears of pen
sions and other purposes.
BE it enacted, ETC., That all pensions which
have been granted under the general law
regulating pensions, or may hereafter be
grant ed in consequence of death from a
cause which originated in the United States
service during the continuance Of the late
war Of the rebellion, or in consequence of
wounds, injuries or disease received or con.
tracied in said service during said war,
snail commence from the date of discharge
from said service of the person on whose
account a claim has been or hereafter shall
be granted or from the termination of the
right OF the party having prior title to
such pension, provided the rate of pension
for the intervening time for which arrears
of pension are hereby granted shall be the
same per month for which pension was
originally granted.
Section 2. That the commissioner Of pen.
sions is hereby authorized and directed to
adopt such rules and regulations for the
payment of arrears of pensions 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 pensioner may be or would
have hpep entitled to uutnr thic Of
Section 8. That section 4,717 of the re.
vised statutes, which provides that no claim
FOR pension not prosecuted to a successful
issue within five years from the date of
fling the came shall be admitted without
recorded evidence from the war or navy de-
partment of in Jury or disease which resulted
in the inability or death of the person on
whose account the claim is made; propided,
that in any case in which the Limitation pre-.
scribed by this section bars further prosecu.
ton Of the 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 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 il such evidence
is deemed satisf ctory By the officer to whom
it may be submitted, he shall cause record
OF the fact so proved to be made and copy
of the same transmitted to the commissi ON eI
of pensions, and the bar to the prosecution
OF the claim shall thereby be removed and
the same is hereby repealed.
Section 4. No claim agent or other per
son shall be entitled to receive any compen
sation for services in making application
for arrears Of pension.
Section 5. That all acts, or parts Of acts
SO far as they may conflict with the provis
ions Of this act, be and the same are hereby
repealed