Frequent aid and attendance.... Amputation at shoulder or hip joint, or so near joint as to prevent use of artificial limb. Total disability of arm or leg.. Loss of one hand and one foot.. Total disability in one hand and one foot.. Amputation at or above elbow or knee.. Loss of a hand or a foot........ Total disability of one hand or one foot.. Inability to perform manual labor (second grade). Total deafness.. Disability equivalent to loss of hand or foot (third grade). TABLE III. Per month. $50.00 45.00 36.00 36.00 36.00 36.00 30.00 30.00 30.00 30.00 24.00 Rates fixed by the Commissioner of Pensions for certain disabilities not specified by law. Nearly total deafness of one ear and slight of the other. Deafness of both ears existing in a degree nearly total.. 27.00 Loss of palm of hand and all the fingers, the thumb remaining Inguinal hernia, which passes through the external ring. Inguinal hernia, which does not pass through the external ring. 14.00 17.00 2.00 4.00 10.00 6.00 Double inguinal hernia, each of which passes through the external ring. Double inguinal hernia, one of which passes through the external ring and the other does not.. 14.00 12.00 Double inguinal hernia, neither of which passes through the external ring.. 8.00 10.00 NOTE.-Section 4699, Revised Statutes, provides that the rate of eighteen dollars per month may be proportionately divided for any degree of disability established for which section forty-six hundred and ninety-five makes no provision, thus fixing the highest rating provided by existing laws which can be allowed by considering disabilities separately and compounding so as to allow the full amount which the disabilities, so considered, would aggregate. The act of March 2, 1895, provides that all pensioners now on the rolls, who are pensioned at less than six dollars per month, for any degree of pensionable disability, shall have their pensions increased to six dollars per month; and that, hereafter, whenever any applicant for pension would, under existing rates, be entitled to less than six dollars for any single disability or several combined disabilities, such pensioner shall be rated at not less than six dollars per month: Provided, also, That the provisions hereof shall not be held to cover any pensionable period prior to the passage of this act, nor authorize a rerating of any claim for any part of such period, nor prevent the allowance of lower rates than six dollars per month, according to the existing practice in the Pension Office in pending cases covering any pensionable period prior to the passage of this act. WIDOWS. The widow of a soldier or sailor who died of a disability incurred while in the service and in line of duty is, under the provisions of section 4702, entitled to the rating to which he would have been entitled for a simple total disability, as shown in Table I, and, under the provisions of section 4696, Revised Statutes, the rank of the soldier is determined by the rank held by him when death cause was incurred, without regard to subsequent promotions. From and after March 19, 1886, by the act approved on that date, the widow of a private or noncommissioned officer is entitled to $12 per month, provided that she married deceased soldier or sailor prior to March 19, 1886, or thereafter married him prior to or during his term of service. WIDOW'S INCREASE. From and after July 25, 1866, a widow is entitled to $2 per month increase for each legitimate minor child of the soldier or sailor in her care and custody. MINORS' PENSION. Same rates and increase as in widows' claims, except that in cases of children of fathers below the rank of a commissioned officer, the rate is increased to $12 per month from March 19, 1886, without regard to date of soldier's or sailor's marriage. MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Same rates as provided in minors' and widows' claims in cases of commissioned officers, and $8 per month to March 19, 1886, and $12 thereafter in other cases. PENSIONS BASED UPON SERVICE PERFORMED SINCE MARCH 4, 1861. 27, 1890. Survivors.. Widows and minors ACT OF JUNE Per month. $6.00 to $12.00 8.00 To widows' and minors' rate add $2 per month increase for each legitimate minor child of soldier or sailor under the age of 16. Female nurses. ACT OF AUGUST 5, 1892. ACT OF MARCH 2, 1867 (NAVY ONLY). $12.00 For twenty years' naval service entitled to one-half the pay he was receiving at date of discharge. Ten years' service; whatever rate may be allowed by a board of officers appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, not to exceed rate for total disability. If in addition to service pension sailor is pensioned for disability, the service pension covering the same time shall not exceed one-fourth the rate allowed for disability. NOTE.-Claims under this act should be filed with the Secretary of the Navy. PENSIONS BASED UPON SERVICE PERFORMED PRIOR TO MARCH 4, 1861. Revolutionary war. There are no survivors of this war. Widows, from March 9, 1878, $8, and from March 19, 1886... War of 1812. (Sections 4736 and 4740, Revised Statutes, and acts of March 9, 1878, and March 19, 1886.) $12.00 Survivors.. $8.00 Widows, from March 9, 1878, $8, and from March 19, 1886. 12.00 Act of January 5, 1893, provides, under certain conditions, for increase of survivors' pension only to 12.00 Widows. 8.00 PROVIDING A MINIMUM RATE OF $6 FOR ALL INVALID PENSIONS. SEE ACT MARCH 2, 1895, P. 94. Arrears of pensions. 1873. Act 1 Mar., 1889. SEC. 4709. Repealed by Acts of January 25 and March 3, 1879. (See p. 33.) SEC. 4710. Repealed by Acts of January 25 and March 3, 1879. (See p. 33.) SEC. 4711. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Sec. 17, 3 Mar. Pensions, upon any application by letter or otherwise by or on behalf of any pensioner entitled to arrears of pension Sec. 4718, and under section forty-seven hundred and nine, or if any such pensioner has died, upon a similar application by or on behalf of any person entitled to receive the accrued pension due such pensioner at his death, to pay or cause to be paid to such pensioner, or other person, all such arrears of pension as the pensioner may be entitled to, or, if dead, would have been entitled to under the provisions of that section No fee due at had he survived; and no claim-agent or other person shall ing application be entitled to receive any compensation for services in making application for arrears of pensions. torney for mak for arrears. 1879. SEC. 4717. Repealed by Section 3, Act of January 25, 1879. (See p. 33.) Act 25 Jan., AN ACT to provide that all pensions on account of death, or wounds received, or disease contracted in the service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion, which have been granted, or which shall hereafter be granted, shall commence from the date of death or discharge from the service of the United States, for the payment of arrears of pensions, and other purposes. See Sec. 4709, R. S., now repeal ed. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all pensions which have been granted under the general laws regulating pensions, or may hereafter be granted, in consequence of death from a cause which originated in the United States service during the continuance of the late war of the rebellion, or in consequence of wounds, injuries, or disease received or contracted in said service during said war of the rebellion, shall commence from the date of the death or discharge from said service of the person on whose account the claim has been or shall hereafter be granted, or from the termination of the right of the party having prior title to such pension: Provided, The rate of pension for the intervening time for which arrears of pension are hereby granted shall be the same per month for which the pension was originally granted. SEC. 2. That the Commissioner of Pensions is hereby authorized and directed to adopt such rules and regulations for the payment of the arrears of pensions hereby granted as will be necessary to cause to be paid to such pensioner, or, if the pensioner shall have died, to the person or persons entitled to the same, all such arrears of pension as the pensioner may be, or would have been, entitled to under this Act. SEC. 3. That section forty-seven hundred and seventeen Sec. 4717, R. S., repealed. of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which pro vides that "no claim for pension not prosecuted to a successful issue within five years from the date of filing the same shall be admitted without record evidence from the War or Navy Department of the injury or the disease which resulted in the disability or death of the person on whose account the claim is made: Provided, That in any case in which the limitation prescribed by this section bars the further prosecution of the claim, the claimant may present, through the Pension Office, to the Adjutant-General of the Army or the Surgeon-General of the Navy, evidence that the disease or injury which resulted in the disability or death of the person on whose account the claim is made originated in the service and in the line of duty; and if such evidence is deemed satisfactory by the officer to whom it may be submitted, he shall cause a record of the fact so proved to be made, and a copy of the same to be transmitted to the Commissioner of Pensions, and the bar to the prosecution of the claims shall thereby be removed," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 4769, 4786, R. S. SEC. 4. No claim-agent or other person shall be entitled See Secs. 4768, to receive any compensation for services in making application for arrears of pension. SEC. 5. That all acts or parts of acts so far as they may conflict with the provisions of this Act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, January 25, 1879. (See Rev. Stat., Sec. 4709, now repealed.) 6661- -3 |