Location, capacity, enrollment, attendance, highest grade taught, etc., for fiscal year ended June 30, 1929-Continued COMMISSIONERS OF PENSIONS SINCE 1833 Name Edwards, James L.. Gardner, Washington. Metcalf, Wilder S.. Scott, Winfield. Church, Earl D. The Bureau of Pensions was organized as a bureau of the War Department under act of March 2, 1833 (4 Stat. L. 622). It became a bureau of the Interior Department when that department was established by the act of March 3, 1849 (9 Stat. L. 395). CONTENTS Functions of Bureau of Pensions.. Civil-service retirements. - - - Fiscal operations, 1928 and 1929- Civil War claims and pensions_ Spanish War claims and pensions- Other classes of claims and pensions- Increase of Civil War widows' pension.. Aviation accidents-double pension- War with Mexico-last survivor. Medical examinations of claimants_ Number of pensioners by States. Field representative service.. Civil-service retirement, work- Retirement fund, financial statement. Retirement law, pending legislation. |