LAWS statutes etc. OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNING THE GRANTING OF ARMY AND NAVY PENSIONS, TOGETHER WITH THE REGULATIONS RELATING THERETO ISSUED BY JOHN C. BLACK, COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, AND PUBLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 4748 13036 P L WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1888 REVISED STATUTES NOW IN FORCE APPERTAINING TO PENSIONS. who are enti tled to pensions. Sec. 1, 3 March Sec. 1, 14 July, 1862. SEC. 4692. Every person specified in the several classes enumerated in the following section, who has been, since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 1871. or who is hereafter disabled under the conditions therein stated, shall, upon making due proof of the fact, according to such forms and regulations as are or may be provided in pursuance of law, be placed on the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive, for a total disability, or a permanent specific disability, such pension as is hereinafter provided in such cases; and for an inferior disability, except in cases of permanent specific disability, for which the rate of pension is expressly provided, an amount proportionate to that provided for total disability; and such pension shall commence as hereinafter provided, and continue during the existence of the disability. 1873. 1862. SEC. 4693. The persons entitled as beneficiaries under Beneficiaries under preceding the preceding section are as follows: section. First. Any officer of the Army, including regulars, vol-, Sec. 1, 3 March, unteers, and militia, or any officer in the Navy or Marine Sec. 1, 14 July, Corps, or any enlisted man, however employed, in the military or naval service of the United States, or in its Marine, Whether regularly mustered or Corps, whether regularly mustered or not, disabled by reason of any wound or injury received, or disease contracted, while in the service of the United States and in the line of duty. not. Sec. 11, 4 July, 1864. 1873. Sec. 10, 14 July, 1862. Masters. Second. Any master serving on a gunboat, or any pilot, engineer, sailor, or other person not regularly mustered, Resolution, 16 serving upon any gunboat or war-vessel of the United July, 1802. States, disabled by any wound or injury received, or other wise incapacitated, while in the line of duty, for procuring his subsistence by manual labor. 1873. Third. Any person not an enlisted soldier in the Army, Sec. 1, 3 March, serving for the time being as a member of the militia of any State, under orders of an officer of the United States, or who volunteered for the time being to serve with any regu 1864. 1868. Sec. 94 July, larly organized military or naval force of the United States, or who otherwise volunteered and rendered service in any engagement with rebels or Indians, disabled in consequence of wounds or injury received in the line of duty in such Sec. 11, 27 July, temporary service. But no claim of a State militiaman, or non-enlisted person, on account of disability from wounds or injury received in battle with rebels or Indians, while temporarily rendering service, shall be valid unless prosecuted to a successful issue prior to the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Sec. 1, 3 March, 1873. 1865. Fourth. Any acting assistant or contract surgeon dis Sec. 2, 3 March, abled by any wound or injury received or disease contracted in the line of duty while actually performing the duties of assistant surgeon or acting assistant surgeon with any military force in the field, or in transitu, or in hospital. Sec. 1, 3 March, 1873. Fifth. Any provost-marshal, deputy provost-marshal, or Sec. 1, 25 July, enrolling-officer disabled, by reason of any wound or injury, received in the discharge of his duty, to procure a subsistence by manual labor. 1866. in Limitation casesof disability July, 1868. Sec. 1, 3 March, 1873. Sec. 2, 27 July, 1868. SEC. 4694. No person shall be entitled to a pension by incurred since 27 reason of wounds or injury received or disease contracted in the service of the United States subsequent to the twentyseventh day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, unless the person who was wounded, or injured, or contracted the disease was in the line of duty; and, if in the military service, was at the time actually in the field, or on the march, or at some post, fort, or garrison, or en route, by direction of competent authority, to some post, fort, or garrison; or, if in the naval service, was at the time borne on the books of some ship or other vessel of the United States, at sea or in harbor, actually in commission, or was at some naval station, or on his way, by direction of competent authority, to the United States, or to some other vessel, or naval station, or hospital. Rate of pension SEC. 4695. The pension for total disability shall be as prescribed for total disabilities. follows, namely: For lieutenant-colonel and all officers of Sec. 2, 3 March, higher rank in the military service and in the Marine Corps, Sec. 1, 14 July, and for captain and all officers of higher rank, commander, 1873 1862. surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, respectively ranking with commander by law, lieutenant commanding and master commanding, in the naval service, thirty dollars per month; for major in the military service and in the Marine Corps, and lieutenant, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, respectively ranking with lieutenant by law, and passed assistant surgeon in the naval service, twenty-five dollars cer, provost and marshal. provost Sec. 1, 25 July, Contract 1865. sur per month; for captain in the military service and in the Marine Corps, chaplain in the Army, and provost-marshal, professor of mathematics, master, assistant surgeon, assist- Enrolling-offant paymaster, and chaplain in the naval service, twenty deputy dollars per month; for first lieutenant in the military service and in the Marine Corps, acting assistant or contract 1866. surgeon, and deputy provost-marshal, seventeen dollars per geon. month; for second lieutenant in the military service and in Sec. 2, 3 March, the Marine Corps, first assistant engineer, ensign, and pilot in the naval service, and enrolling-officer, fifteen dollars per month; for cadet-midshipman, passed midshipman, midshipmen, clerks of admirals, and paymasters, and of other officers commanding vessels, second and third assistant engineer, master's mate, and all warrant-officers in the naval service, ten dollars per month; and for all other persons, whose rank or office is not mentioned in this section, eight dollars per month; and the masters, pilots, engineers, sailors, and crews upon the gunboats and war-vessels shall be entitled to receive the pension allowed herein to those of like rank in the naval service.' Rate of pension 1873. Commission de SEC. 4696. Every commissioned officer of the Army, Navy, accordor Marine Corps shall receive such and only such pension as ing to rank held at time disability is provided in the preceding section for the rank he held at was contracted. the time he received the injury or contracted the disease Sec. 2, 3 March, which resulted in the disability on account of which he may see sec. 1, 14 be entitled to a pension; and any commission or presiden- July, 1862. tial appointment, regularly issued to such person, shall be termines rank taken to determine his rank from and after the date, as given date given in the body of the com. in the body of the commission or appointment conferring mission. said rank: Provided, That a vacancy existed in the rank Sec. 7, 6 June thereby conferred; that the person commissioned was not disabled for military duty; and that he did not willfully neglect or refuse to be mustered. from and after 1866. mencement of subsequent to SEC. 4697. For the period commencing July fourth, eight-Rate and comeen hundred and sixty-four, and ending June third, eighteen pension for permanent and spehundred and seventy-two, those persons entitled to a less cific disabilities pension than hereinafter mentioned, who shall have lost both 4 July, 1864, and feet in the military or naval service and in the line of duty, 1872. shall be entitled to a pension of twenty dollars per month; for the same period those persons who, under like circum prior to 3 June, Sec. 3,5h, 1873. 1864. See sec. 1, 6, 1866. *As to rate for passed assistant engineers, assistant engineers, and June, 1866, and cadet-engineers in the Navy, see act 3 March, 1877. As to rate for "en- sec. 5, 25 July, signs," "cadet-midshipman," "clerks of admirals," and of other ofli- Sec. 3, 3 March cers commanding vessels," see section 2, 3 March, 1873. For lieutenant commanders, see act 18 June, 1878. 1865. |