1882. Act 5 Aug., AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes. and second Dep * * * * And the provisions of section fifty-four hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes shall be applicable to any person who shall violate the provisions of an act entitled "An act relating to claim agents and attorneys in pension cases," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred Duties of first and seventy-eight. That the duties of first and second uty Commission deputy commissioners shall be such as are now fixed by law for the deputy commissioner of pensions; and in case of death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Commissioner his duties shall devolve upon the first deputy commissioner until his successor is appointed, or such absence or sickness ceases, and in case of the like absence of the Commissioner and first deputy commissioner, the second deputy commissioner shall act as Commissioner in like ers. manner. tled to pensions. SEC. 4692. Every person specified in the several classes, Who are enti enumerated in the following section, who has been, since Sec. 1, 3 Mar., the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 1873; Sec. 1, 14 July, 1862. 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. SEC. 4693. The persons entitled as beneficiaries under Beneficiaries the preceding section are as follows: under preceding section. Sec. 1, 3 Mar., July, 1862. 1873; Sec. 1, 14 Whether regu not. First. Any officer of the Army, including regulars, volunteers, and militia, or any officer in the Navy or Marine Corps, or any enlisted man, however employed, in the military or naval service of the United States, or in its Marine larly mustered or Corps, whether regularly mustered or not, disabled by reaSec. 11, 4 July, son of any wound or injury received, or disease contracted, 1864; Sec. 1, 3 while in the service of the United States and in the line of Mar., 1873; Sec. 10, 14 July, 1862. duty. Second. Any master serving on a gunboat, or any pilot, Masters. engineer, sailor, or other person not regularly mustered,Resolution 16 serving upon any gunboat or war-vessel of the United States, disabled by any wound or injury received, or otherwise incapacitated, while in the line of duty, for procuring his subsistence by manual labor. July, 1873. 1862. Third. Any person not an enlisted soldier in the Army, Sec. 1, 3 Mar., serving for the time being as a member of the militia of any 1864. State, under orders of an officer of the United States, or who volunteered for the time being to serve with any reguSec. 9, 4 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. 1868. Sec. 1, 3 Mar., 1873; Sec. 2, 3 Mar., 1865. Sec. 1, 3 Mar.. 1873; Sec. 1, 25 July, 1866. tia. Missouri mili Sec. 8, 3 Mar., 1873. Fourth. Any acting assistant or contract surgeon disabled 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 milţiary force in the field, or in transitu, or in hospital. Fifth. Any provost-marshal, deputy provost-marshal, or enrolling-officer disabled, by reason of any wound or injury, received in the discharge of his duty, to procure a subsistence by manual labor. SEC. 4722. The provisions of this Title are extended to the officers and privates of the Missouri State militia, and the provisional Missouri militia, disabled by reason of inJuly, 1864; secs. jury received or disease contracted in the line of duty while 1862; 3 Mar., such militia was co-operating with United States forces, (See sec. 9, 4 1 and 2, 25 Mar., 1879, p. 34.) Colored soldiers; "slaves." Sec. 1, 3 Mar., 1873. An independ and the widow or children of any such person dying of injury received or disease contracted under the circumstances herein set forth, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Title. But the pensions on account of such militia shall not commence prior to the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. SEC. 4723. All colored persons who enlisted in the Army during the war of the rebellion, and who are now prohibited from receiving bounty and pension on account of being borne ent act. (See on the rolls of their regiments as "slaves," shall be placed Statutes at on the same footing, as to bounty and pension, as though they had not been slaves at the date of their enlistment. p. 601, vol. 17, Large.) LAWS GRANTING PENSIONS FOR THE NAVY AND REVENUE SEC. 4692, 4693. Reference. MARINE. 2757. Revenue officers cooperating with Navy. 4729. Widows and minors of officers and seamen 4753. Investment of Navy pension fund. 4755. Payment of Navy pension fund. 4756. Half rating to disabled enlisted persons serving twenty years. 4757. Aid for service not less than ten years. 4758. Trustee of the privateer pension fund. 4759. Source of privateer pension fund. SEC. 4760. Proceeds of privateer pension fund paid to the Treasury. 4761. Who are entitled as privateersmen to pen- 4762. Disability record of disabled privateersmen. Act March 3, 1877, passed assistant engineers; Act June 9, 1880, restoring pensions in certain cases. Act August 14, 1888, desertion, Navy or Marine Joint resolution of June 11, 1896, extending the (See secs. 4692 and 4693, R. S., p. 5.) ters to cooperate Act 2 Mar., SEC. 2757. The revenue-cutters shall, whenever the Pres- Revenue cutident so directs, co-operate with the Navy, during which with the Navy. time they shall be under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and the expenses thereof shall be defrayed by v. 1. p. 699. the Navy Department. 1799, c. 22, s. 98, See sec. 1492, R. S. Pension to officers and seamen of the Navy dis abled prior to SEC. 4728. If any officer, warrant or petty officer, seaman, engineer, first, second, or third assistant engineer, fireman, or coal-heaver of the Navy or any marine has been disabled Mar. 4, 1861. prior to the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and Secs. 2 and 3, 11 Aug., 1848; Sec. sixty-one, by reason of any injury received or disease con- 11, 1 July, 1791; Sec. 8, 23 Apr., tracted in the service and line of duty, he shall be entitled 1800. to receive during the continuance of his disability a pension proportionate to the degree of his disability, not exceeding half the monthly pay of his rank as it existed in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. But the pension of a chief engineer shall be the same as that of a lieutenant of the Navy; the pension of a first assistant engineer the same as that of a lieutenant of marines; the pension of a second or third assistant engineer the same as that of a forward officer; the pension of a fireman or coal-heaver the same as that of a seaman; but an engineer, fireman, or coal heaver Pension to wid ows and minors shall not be entitled to any pension by reason of a disability incurred prior to the thirty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two. SEC. 4729. If any person referred to in the preceding secof some officers tion has died in the service, of injury received or disease and seamen of the Navy dis- contracted under the conditions therein stated, his widow abled prior to Mar. 4, 1861. shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which Secs. 1, 2, and 3, the deceased was entitled at the date of his death; and in 11 Aug., 1848. case of her death or marriage, the child or children under sixteen years of age shall be entitled to the pension. But the rate of pension herein allowed shall be governed by the pay of the Navy as it existed in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five; and the pension of the widow of a chief engineer shall be the same as that of a widow of a lieutenant in the Navy; the pension of the widow of a first assistant engineer shall be the same as that of the widow of a lieutenant of marines; the pension of the widow of a second or third assistant engineer the same as that of the widow of a forward officer; the pension of the widow of a fireman or coal-heaver shall be the same as that of the widow of a seaman. But the rate of pension prescribed by this and the preceding section shall be varied from and after the twentyfifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in accordance with the provisions of section four thousand seven hundred and twelve of this Title; and the widow of an engineer, fireman, or coal-heaver shall not be entitled to any pension by reason of the death of her husband, if his death was prior to the thirty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two. Pension to officers and seamen of revenue cut ters. Act 18 Apr 1814. Secretary of the Navy shall be SEC. 4741. The officers and seamen of the revenue cutters of the United States, who have been or may be wounded or disabled in the discharge of their duty while co-operating with the Navy by order of the President, shall be entitled to be placed on the Navy pension-list, at the same rate of pension and under the same regulations and restrictions as are provided by law for the officers and seamen of the Navy. SEC. 4750. The Secretary of the Navy shall be trustee of trustee of Navy the Navy pension-fund. pension fund. Sec. 1, 10 July, 1832. Penalties; how to be sued for, etc. SEC. 4751. All penalties and forfeitures incurred under the provisions of sections twenty-four hundred and sixtySec. 3, 2 Mar., one, twenty-four hundred and sixty-two, twenty-four hundred and sixty-three, Title "THE PUBLIC LANDS," shall be 1831. |