Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
DEPENDENT PENSIONERS.
Provisions of the Bill As Passed BY the Ser

The bill granting pensions to ex SOL
diers and sailors, &c, passed by the Sen
ate, provides that in considering the pen
sion claims of dependent parents, the
fact and cause OF death and the fact that
the soldier left no widow or minor child
or children, having been shown as re-
qulred By law, 1t shall be necessary only
TO show by competent and sufficient evil
dence that such parent or parents are
without other means of support than
their own manual labor or the contribu-
tlons of Others not legally bound Tor
their support provided that all pensions
allowed under this section shall com
mence from the date of tAe passage of
this act, or from the date of subsequent
dependence, and shall continue no longer
than the existance of such dependence.
All persons who served three months or
more IN the military or naval service of
the United States during the War of the
Rebellion, and who have been honorably
discharged therefrom, and who are now
or who may be hereafter be suffering
from mental or physical disability, not
the result of their own vicious habits,
which totally incap acitates them for the
performance of manual labor, and who
are without other adequate means of
self support, shall, upon making due
proof of the fact according to such rules
and regulations as the Secretary of the
Interior may provide, be placed upon the
list OF Invalid pensioners of the United
States and be entitled to receive $12 per
month, and such pension shall commence
from the date of filing of the application
IN the Pension Office after the passage of
this act upon proof that the disability
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the existence of the same, provided that
persons who are now receiving pensions
under existing laws, or whose claims are
pending in the Pension Office, may, by
application TO the Commissioner of Pen
sions, in such form as he may prescribe,
receive the benefits of the act; and moth
ing therein contained shall he construed
as to prevent any Pensloner hereunder
from prosecuting his claim and receiving
his pension under any other general or
special act; provided, however, that no
person shall receive more than one pen
sion for the same period, and provided
further, that rank in the service shall not
be considered.
Ii any invalid pensioner has died, or
, shall hereafter die, leaving widow, mi
/ nor child or children under eighteen
years of age, or in case there be no widow
or minor child or children, dependent
mother or father, such widow, minor
child or children, or mother or father
shall be placed upon the pension roll at
the rates established by law for widows.
minor children and parents, without re-
gard to the cause of death OF such pen
sioner, provided that said widow was
married to the diseased peasioner prior to
the passage of this act. All pensions
granted to widows under this or any 9th
er general law shall take effect from the
dace of of the death OF the husband of
such wideGs respectively, but not dating
back of the passage of this act. The in
crease Of pensions fer minor children
shall be at the rate of 50 per month in
stead Of 81 per moth as now provided
by law, and in case & minor chile is in
sane, or otherwise helpless, the pension
9had continue during the life OF said
child or during the period of such disa-
biuty.