Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-13
ARREARs OF Pension BILL-APPROVEU
JANUARY Is, 1879

ARREARS OF PENSION BILL-APPRovED
JANUARY Is, 1879.
AN act to provide that all pensions on ac-
count Of death or wounds received or
disease contracted in the service Of tie
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
granted 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.
tracted 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 person!
entitled to the same, all such arrears Of
pension as the pensioner may be or woulc
have been entitled to under this act.
Wat 4 1f ha
vised statutes, which provides that no claim
for pension not prosecuted to successful
issue within five years from the date O
! fling the same shall be admitted withou
recorded evidence from the war or navy de
partment of injury or disease which resulted
| in the inability or death of the person OF
whose account the claim is made prorided
that in any case in which the elimination pre-
! scribed by this section bars further prOsecu
ton of the claim, the claimant may present
through the pension office to the adjutan
general Of the army or surgeon general O
the navy, evidence that the disease or in
| jury which resulted in the disability OF
-, death of the person on whose account tn
claim is made originated in the service ant
in the line of duty; and if such evidence
is deemed satisf Glory by the officer to whom
it may be submitted, he shall cause recor
of the fact so proved to be made and cop
!
of the same transmitted to the commissions
of pensions, and the bar to the prosecution
OF the claim shall thereby be removed an
the same is hereby repealed.
! Section 4. No claim agent or other pei
son shall be entitled to receive any comper
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 hereb
repealed.
rs No claim for arrears under the prt
visions of the above act, due to e pensione
upon the rolls, will be adjusted until COL
gress shall have appropriated the money TO
the payment Of such claim.
Applications for such arrears may, how
ever, be fled-but will receive 60 answe
until the claim is adjusted.
The above rules are necessary to proven
the work of the Office from becoming BLOCK
AIDED by unnecessary correspondence.
J. 4. BENTLEY,
! Commissioner of Pensions.