The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-01-21

of proven service origin, and not to iii.
/ ability under the act of June "a, 1S9
As specified by the act OF July IA, 1856:
| and various amendments. all substantial
embodied in section 1866, Revised Sta1
utes, they are as follows:
/ Per M,
Lieutenant-C Colonel and all officers
of higher rank in the Marine
Corps, Captain and all officers of
higher rank, Commander, Sur
geon, Paymaster. and Chief Engi
neer. respectively ranking with
Commander by law, Lieutenant
Commander, Lieutenant COM
handing. and Master command
| Ing, in the naval service. 5000
Major in the Marine Corps, Lieu
tenant, Surgeon, Paymaster, and
Chief Engineer. respectively rank
ing with Lieutenant by law,
Passed Assistant Surgeon in the
naval service ................ $50
Captain in the military service and
in the Marine Corps, Chaplain in
the Army, and Provost Marshal,
| Professor of Mathematics, Master
or Lieutenant of the junior grade,
Assistant Surgeon, Assistant
Paymaster, and Chaplain in the
naval service ............. 200
First Lieutenant in the military
service and in the Marine Corps,
Acting Assistant or Contract Sur
geon, and Deputy Provost-Mar-
Second e Lieutenant in the military Nv
service and in the Marine Corps,
First Assistant Engineer, En-
sign, and pilot in the naval serv-
ice, and Enrolling officer. $500. 100
Cadet Midshipman, Passed Midship-
man, Midshipman, or Ensigns of
the junior grade. clerks of Adj
mirals and Paymasters, and of
nfH dsy,u
sells, Second and Third Assistant
Engineers, Masters Mate, and
oil warrant officers in the naval
service ................. 100
For all other persons whose rank
or office is not mentioned above. 80,
JUNIOR ENGINEER OFFICERS IN THE NAVY
An act of March 3, 1877. provides tina
from and after that date the pension TO
total disability of passed assistant engi
neers, assistant engineers and cadet en-
gineers in the naval service. respectively
to officers of the line in the naval servic,
with whom they have relative rank"
FIXING RATE ACCORDING TO RANK.
Section 1896, Revised Statutes TACT O
July II, 1862, and amendments), is q.
Sec. 1896. Every commissioned office
of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps shall
receive such and only such pension as j,
provided in the preceding section for tn,
rank he held at the time he received tn.
injury or contracted the disease which re
suited in the disability OH account o.
which he may be entitled to a pension
and any commission or presidential ap
pointment, regularly issued to such person
shall be taken to determine his rank from
and after the date, as given in the BODY
of the commission or appointment confer
ring said rank: Provided, That vacanc,
existed in the rank thereby conferred; tina
the person commissioned was not disabled
for military duty; and that he did not will
fully neglect or refuse to be mustered"
Under various enactments since 1865
officers may under some circumstances bs
mustered or re-mustered under their com
missions, thus emitting them to higher
rate Of pension in many instances.
TIE DIvIsIBLE $18.
With the act Of July 4, 1854, which In
augnrated the system of special rates fol
certain specific disabilities, the total dis
ability ratings above enumerated began t.
lose their original character as ratings fol
total disability for the performance OIL
manual labor. The act of July 6. 1906
especially provided a rating Of $40 fol
those 80 disabled as to be incapacitatet
for performing any manual labor" ant
total disability" became only the name Of
certain ratings above enumerated.
(To be continued.)