The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-07-11
The New Pension Law.


| sailors who are incapacitated for the perform
| ance OF manual labor, and providing for pensions
to widows, minor children, and dependent par
| ents.
Be 1t enacted by The Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States of
Americd IN Congress assembled, That in
considering the pension claims of dependent
parents the fact of the soldiers death by
reason of any wound, injury, ncasualty, or
disease which. under the conditions and linn
itatiOns OF existing laws, would have entitl-
ed him to an invalid pension, and the fact
that the soldier left no widow or minor
children having been shown as required by
| law, it shall be necessary only to show by
competent and sufficient evidence that such
parent or parents are without other present
means of support that their own manual la
Dor, or the contributions of others not legal
| ybound for their support: Provided, That
| all pensions allowed to dependent parents
under this act shall commence from the date
of the filing of the application hereunder
| and shall continue no longer that the exist
ence of the dependence.
SEC. 2. That all persons who served
ninety days 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 therefrom, and who
| are now or may hereafter be suffering from
mental or physical disability of perma-
nent character, not the result of their own
vicious habits, which incapactates them
| from the performance of manual labor in
such degree as to render them unable to
earn 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 in
valid pensioners of the United States, and
be entitled to pension not exceeding
twelve dollars per month and not less than
| six dollars per months, proportion to the de-
| gree of inability to earn support and such
pension shall commence from the date of the
| filing of the application i'm the Pension Of
| fee, after the passage of this act upon proof
that the disability then existed, and shall
| continue during the existence of the same:
| PrODided, That persons who are now re-
ceiving pensions under existing laws, or
whose claims are pending in the Pension
Office, may, by application to the Commits
sioner of Pension, i'm such form as he may
prescribe, showing themselves entitled there
to- receive the benefits of this act; and moth
ing herein contained shall be so construed
as to prevent any pensioner Hereunder
from prosecuting his claim and receiving his
pension under any other general or special
act: PrOpided, hOiCeUer, That no person
shall receive more than one pension for the
same period: And 1rOUided further, That
rank i'm the service shall not be considered in
applications filed under this act.
SEC. 3. That if any officer or enlisted
man who served ninety days or more in the
Army or Navy of the United States during
the late war of the rebellion, and who has
died, or shall hereafter die, leaving widow
without other means of support than her
daily labor, or minor children under the age
of sixteen years, such widow shall, upon
due proof of her husbands death, without
proving his death to be the result of Army
service, be placed OH the pension roll from
the date of the application therefor under
this act at the rate OF eight dollars per month
during her widOwhOOd, and shall also be
paid two dollars per month for each child
of said officer or enlisted man under sixteen
years of age, and in case of the death or
remarriage of the widow leaving child or
children of such officer or enlisted man under
the age of sixteen, such pension shall be
paid such child or children until the age Of
sixteen: Provided, that In case a minor
child is insane, idiOtic, or otherwise perman
emily helpless, the pension shall continue
during the life Of said child, or during the
period of such disability, and this proviso
shall apply to all pensions heretofore grant
ed or hereafter to be granted under this or
any former statute. and such pensions shall
commence from the date of application
therefor after the passage of this act: 1nd
prouided further, That said widow shall
have married said soldier prior to the pass
age of this act.
SEC. 4. That no agent, attorney or other
person engaged in preparing, presenting, or
prosecuting any claim under the provisions
of this act shall, directly or indirectly, con-
tract for, demand, receive or retain for such
services in preparing, presenting, or prose-
cutting such claim sum greater than ten
dollars, which sum shall be payable only
upon the order of the Commissioner of Pen
sions by the pension agent making payment
of the pension allowed, and any person who
shall violate any of the provisions of this sec
ton. or who shall wrongfully withhold from
pensiOner or claimant the whole or any
part of a pension or claim allowed or due
such pensioner or claimant under this act
shall be deemed guilty of mlsdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall, for each
and every such offence, be fined not exceed
ing five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned at
hard labor not exceeding two years, or both,
I'm the discretion of the court