Year: 1868

| HARRIsBURGH, March 27.-The follow
ing bill has been signed By the Governor:


AN ACT to Provide for the Payment Of
Gratnities and Annuities to the Soldiers of
the War ofl8l2 and their Widows.
SECTION BE it enacted &c, That the
act entitled an act to provide for the pay
ment OF gratuities and anuuities to the sol
dlers OF the War of 1872 and their widows,
approved the 18th day of March, A. ID.
1866, be, and the same is hereby revived:
with the following proViso and amendment,


Pocided That the affidavit required IN
the side act shall be made before the Court
OF Common Pleas Of the county in which
the applicant shall reside at the same time
Of making his or her application, which afi-
dayit shall be attested by the Prothonotary
or Clerk Of the Court, with the seal
attached, OF in the event of the applicant
being too sick or in6rm to make application
to such court, the affidavit aforesaid may be
made before an alderman or Justice, which
afndavlt shall be supported by two respecta-
pie citizens, under oath or affirmation stat
ing such sickness or infrmity. ARd Pro-
1tded, That the term ''necessitous circum-
stances IN the said section shall be construed
20 men not to be possessed Of real or person
al estate Of value of FIVE hundred dollars.
A7ld prOUided further. That the pratuity
mentioned in the said act shall not be paid
to any person who shall have received q
gratuity under the said act. A7ld prorfded.
Also the said gratuity and annuity shall
cease so soon as provision shall be made by
Congress for said soldiers and their widows,
and thereafter no pensions shall be paid
under this act. Ind provided further, That
every application for either gratuity or
annuity under the provisions of this act shall
be attested annually by an affidavit as
aforesaid. Aild provjded further. That
the application of any person under the pro-
vision of this act shall be indorsed as meri-
torious by one Of the judges of the court
before which the affidavit required By this
That no pensions or gratuities shall be paid
on any application heretofore made under
the act Of March 80, 1866, and persons
claiming the benefit Of this act shall make
their application anew. Progided further,
That any person who is in receipt of a pen
sion or gratuity in pursuance of any special
act of Assembly shall not be entitled to the
benefit of the provisions of this act, and that
no fee shall be recovered for the collection
of any annuity after the first payment made
by the State Treasurer as aforesaid,


SEC. 8. That any attorney, agent, or
other person prosecuting and claim under
this act, who shall demand or receive any
greater sum than FIVE dollars as a fee for
prosecuting any claim under this act, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof, in the Court of Quarter
Sessions Of the county where he may reside,
shall pay fine ofnot more than fifty dollars,
or may be imprisoned not exceeding one
month.


SEC. . That any soldier of the said war
who may not have served the full term of
uwU months, but who was in actual engage
ment with the enemy, or the widow of such
soldier, shall be entitled to the benefit of
this act


SEGA That this act shall take effect from
the first day of January. 1868.


SEC. 5. That all laws or parts of laws In
hereby repealed.