The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-06-26

der this act shall commence from the
date of the filing of the application here
under and shall continue no longer than
the existence of the dependence.
SEC. 2. That all persons who served
three months or more in the military or
naval service of the United States during
the late war of the Rebellion, and who
have been hOnorably discharged there
FROM and who are now or who may here
after be suffering from mental or ply
sical disability of permanent character,
not the result of their own vicious habits,
which incapaciates them from the per
fOrmance of manual labor in such de-
gree as to render them unable to earn a
support, shall, upon making due proof
of the fact, according to such rules and
regulations as the Secretary of the Inter
iOr may provide, be placed upon the list
of invalid pensioners of the United States
and be entitled to receive a pension not
to exceed S12 per month and not less
than So per month, proportioned to their
inability to earn support; and such
pension shall commence from the date of
the filing of the application in the pen
sion office, after the passage of this act,
upon proof that the disability then exist
ed, and shall continue during the exist
ence of such disability; provided, that
persons who are now receiving pensions
under existing laws or whose claims are
pending in the pension office may, by ap-
pliCatiOn to the Commissioner of Pen
siOns, in such form as he may prescribe,
showing themselves entitled thereto, re-
ceive the benefits of this act, and nothing
nra,,n,t ony, ronsinno, tberennder from
pprosonr,timg Ii cIain1 onJ rocaiv vino his
pansion n1dnr anv other General or
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nerson sbsil raceive more than one nan.
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