The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-02-21
Two Hundred kenosha Soldiers
in the War of the Rebellion
to Get Added Pensions
FEW D0NOT GET PENSION NOW
Under the New Law Veterans over 90
Years of Age Will Receive $I2,
Over 10, $40. aud Over
rs, $50 Monthly

Two hundred men in Kenosha
county, who fought in the war of the
rebellion, will profit by the general
service pension bill, recently passed
by Congress, and the Kenosha veter-
ans are now making preparations to
apply for the pensions allowed to
them under the law. An examination
OF the pension rolls shows that large
percentage of the veterans in this
county are now drawing pensions.
but under the new law most of them
will be entitled to an increase in pay.
There are two members of the G.. A. r.
post in Kenosha not now drawing PEN
sions, and these will be entitled to SD
mouth. Both will make application
for the pension.
The applications for the pensions
are expected to arrive in KenoSha
within few days. On account of the
large number of people in the county
interested in the new act it is given in
full below:
Section |. Be il enacted by the
senate and house of representatives
of the United States of America ID
I congress assembled, that any person
who served ninety days or more in
the military service of the United
I States during the late civil war
or sixty days in the war with Mexico,
and who has been honorably dis
/ charged therefrom, and who has
Preached the age of sixty-two years or.
over, shall, upon making proof of
such facts according to such rules and
regulations as the secretary of the
interior may provide, be placed upon
the pension roll, and be entitled to
receive pension as follows:
! In case such person has reached the
age of sixty-two years, twelve dollars
per month; seventy years, fifteen
dollars per month; seventy-five years
or over, twenty dollars per month;
and such pension shall commence
from the date of fling of the applica-
ton in the bureau of pensions after
the passage and approval of this act:
| Provided, that pensioners who are
eixty-two years of age or over, and
who are now receiving pensions under
existing laws, or whose claims are
/ pending in the bureau of pensions,
may, by application to the commits
sioner of pensions in such form as he
may prescribe, receive the benefits Of
this act; and nothing herein contained
shall prevent any pensioner or per-
son entitled to pension from prose-
cutting his claim and receiving a PEN
! sion under any other general or
special act: Provided, that no person
shall receive pension under any
other law at the same time or for the
same period that he is receiving
pension under the provisions of this
act: Provided further, that 10 person
who is now receiving or shall here
after receive a greater pension under
any other general or special law than
he would be entitled to receive under
the provisions herein shall be pension
able under this act.
4 Sec. 3. That rank in the service
shall not be considered in applications
filed hereunder.
4 Sec. 8. That no pension attorney,
claim agent, or other person shall be
entitled to receive any compensation
for services rendered in presenting
any claim to the bureau of pensions,
or securing any pension, under this
act.