teen days or was in any engagement shall be placed on the pension-rolls of the United States and receive a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month. SEC. 7. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act be, and they are hereby, repealed. Approved, March 9, 1878. for Revolution ary pensions pro hibited. Act2 Apr. 1862. SEC. 4742. From and after the second day of April, eight- Certain claims een hundred and sixty-two, no claim for a pension, or for an increase of pension, shall be allowed in favor of the children or other descendants of any person who served in the war of the Revolution, or of the widow of such person, when such person or his widow died without having established a claim to a pension. sions. pen Resolution SEC. 4743. In all cases where a pension has been granted Evidence necessary to enable to any officer or soldier of the Revolution in his life-time, widows of Revolutionary soldiers the evidence upon which such pension was granted shall be to obtain conclusive of the service of such officer or soldier in the application of any widow, or woman who may have been the 1 July, 1848. widow, of such officer or soldier, for a pension; and upon proof by her that she was married to any such officer or soldier and that she is a widow, she shall thereupon be placed upon the pension-rolls at the same rate that such officer or soldier received during his life-time. LAWS GRANTING PENSIONS FOR SERVICE IN THE INDIAN WARS. SEC. 1657. Volunteers or militia; service, Indian Act February 3, 1893. Proof as to citizenship depredations in Florida. under Act July 27, 1892. Act July 27, 1892. Who are entitled; rate of pen sion under; provisions as to applica tions and proof under; Sec. 4716, R. etc., to suppress tions in Florida; SEC. 1657. The volunteers or militia, who have been re- Volunteers, ceived into the service of the United States, to suppress Indian depredaIndian depredations in Florida, shall be entitled to all the benefits to. benefits which are conferred on persons wounded or otherwise disabled in the service of the United States. Act 19 Mar. 1836, c. 44, s. 4, v. 5, p. 7. AN ACT granting pensions to survivors of the Indian wars of eighteen hundred and thirty-two to eighteen hundred and fortytwo, inclusive, known as the Black Hawk war, Creek war, Cherokee disturbances, and the Seminole war. cers and enlisted in the Indian 1842 pensioned. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Surviving offithe United States of America in Congress asssembled, That men who served the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, author wars from 1832 to ized and directed to place on the pension roll the names of the surviving officers and enlisted men, including marines, militia, and volunteers of the military and naval service of the United States, who served for thirty days in the Black Hawk war, the Creek war, the Cherokee disturbances, or the Florida war with the Seminole Indians, embracing a period from eighteen hundred and thirty-two to eighteen hundred and forty two, inclusive, and were honorably discharged, and such other officers, soldiers, and sailors as may have been personally named in any resolution of Congress, for any specific service in said Indian wars, although their term of service may have been less than thirty days, and the surviving widows of such officers and enlisted men: Provided, That such widows have not remarried: Provided further, That this Act shall not apply to any person not a citizen of the United States. An honorable discharge and thirty days' serv ice requisite to entitle. Widows. title. SEC. 2. That pensions under this Act shall be at the rate Rate of pension, $8 per of eight dollars per month, and payable from and after the month. passage of this Act, for and during the natural lives of the persons entitled thereto. The Secretary of the Interior to jury. stricken from roll for fraud. SEC. 3. That before the name of any person shall be prescribe rules. placed on the pension roll under this Act, proof shall be made, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, of the right of the applicant to False oath per a pension; and any person who shall falsely and corruptly take any oath required under this Act shall be deemed Name to be guilty of perjury; and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be stricken from the pension roll the name of any person whenever it shall be made to appear by proof satisfactory to him that such name was put upon such roll through false and fraudulent representations, and that such person is not entitled to a pension under this Act. of dis- The loss of the certificate of discharge shall not deprive any person of the benefits of this Act, but other evidence of service performed and of an honorable discharge may be deemed sufficient. Loss charge certificate not a bar. Not in addition to existing pension. Pension now in laws force SEC. 4. That this Act shall not apply to any person who is receiving a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month or more, nor to any person receiving a pension of less than eight dollars per month, except for the difference between the pension now received (if less than eight dollars per month) and eight dollars per month. SEC. 5. That the pension laws now in force, which are made applicable. not inconsistent or in conflict with this Act, are hereby made a part of this Act, so far as they may be applicable thereto. Sec. 4716, R. S. Persons engaged excluded. SEC. 6. That section forty-seven hundred and sixteen of in rebellion not the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to this Act or to pensioners under this Act. Approved July 27, 1892. 1893. The provisions of the above Act extended by the following Act: Act 3 Feb., AN ACT relating to proof of citizenship of applicants for Indian war pensions under the Act of Congress approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. Citizenship in Indian war claims. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Pensions be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to accept as sufficient proof of the citizenship of an applicant for pension under said act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the fact that such applicant at the date of the application was an actual and bona fide resident of the United States. Approved, February 3, 1893. LAWS GRANTING PENSIONS FOR SERVICE DURING THE MEXICAN WAR. SEC. 4730. Mexican war; regulars or volunteers disabled in. SEC. 4731. Widows and children of regulars or volunteers disabled in Mexican war. Act January 29, 1887. Granting pension to surviv ors, and to surviving widows of offi- Act March 3, 1891. Powell's Battalion of Missouri Act January 5, 1893. Increase in certain Mexican Act received by President February 5, 1897, becoming a law without his approval. Gray's Battalion of Arkansas Volunteers. regulars or vol SEC. 4730. Any officer, non-commissioned officer, musi- Mexican war; cian, or private, whether of the Regular Army or volunteer, unteers disabled disabled by reason of injury received or disease contracted Sec. 7, 13 May, in. Sec. 3, 21 July, 1848. while in the line of duty in actual service in the war with 1846; SEC. 4731. If any officer or other person referred to in the preceding section has died, or shall hereafter die, by reason of any injury received or disease contracted under the circumstances therein set forth, his widow shall be entitled to receive the same pension as the husband would have been entitled to had he been totally disabled; and in case of her death or remarriage, the child or children of such officer or other person referred to in the preceding section, while under the age of sixteen years, shall be entitled to receive the pension. But the rate of pension prescribed by this and the preceding section shall be varied after the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in accordance with the provisions of section four thousand seven hundred and twelve of this title. Widows and lars or volun children of regu teers in the Mex ican war. Secs. 1, 2, 21 July, 1848; Sec. 1, Feb., 1849; Act 22 28 Sept., 1850. |