The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-16
PENSION BILL

FOR THE RELIEF OF THE OLD VETERANS
WHO SERVED IN THE SEMINOLE WAR
FROM GOLD NAT"
The following bill was introduced by
Senator Samuel Pasco on the
9th of January, 1892. 1t will be read
and watched with much interest by the
deserving old veterans who went to bat
tie with the dusky savage of Florida
" many moons" ago. 1t IS a just bill
and l have no doubt of it's early passage
through both bodies of congress.
Mr.. Mallory will very shortly intro
duce bill repeating the act disqualfying
old confederate soldiers from receiving
pensions granted by congress up to 1860
to wounded soldiers of this war. Both
Mr.. Pasco and Mr.. Mallory are awake to
the interest of their constituents, not
only these two statesmen but Senator
Call and General Bullock as well. Flor
ida is we'll represented at the national
capital:
y DILL A>I1Nb IENSlONS 10 IhE SOL-
DIERS AND SAILORS OF THE FLORIDA OR
SEMINOLE INDIAN WARS, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the secretary of the interior be, and he
is hereby, authorized and directed to
place on the pension roll the names of
the surviving officers and enlisted men,
including marines, militia and volun-
teers, of the military and naval service
OF the United States. who, being duly
enlisted, actually served sixty days or
more during the Florida or Seminole In
dian wars, IN the years Ammo Domini
eighteen hundred and thirty-five, eigh-
teen hundred and forty-two. eighteen
hundred and fifty-seven and eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight. with the army
and navy of the United States in Flor
ida. or on the coast thereof. or enroute
the reto. during said swar. or who were
actually engaged in a battle, or were be-
sleged in said war and were honOrably
discharged, and to such other officers
and soldiers and sailors as may have
been personally named in any resolution
of congress for any specific service in said
war. and the surviving widows who
have not remarked of such officers and
enlisted men. who died Provided, That
every such officer, enlisted man or wild
ow who is or may become sixty-two
years of age, or who is or may become
subject, to any disability or dependency
equivalent to some cause prescribed or
recognized by the pension laws of the
United States as the sufficient reason for
the allowance of pension shall be en-
titled to the benefits of this act but it
shall not be held to include any person
not within the rule of age or disability
or dependence herein defined, or who in
Cured such disability while in any man
ner voluntarily engaged in or aiding or
abetting the late rebellion against the au-
thOrity of the United States.
SEC. 2. That the pensions granted by
THIS act shall be at the same rate and
subject to the same provisions, rules,
regulations and prior enactments, and to
the same exemption from the effect of
section forty-seven hundred and sixteen
OF the revised statutes, as are provided in
the case of pensioners Of the Mexican
war, in the act approved January
twenty-n;nth, eighteen hundred and
elghty-seven and the provisions of this
act shall not apply to any person while
under the political disabilities imposed
by the fourteenth amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States.