Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Appealed Pension and Bounty-land Claims, Volume 9U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - Bounties, Military |
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$8 per month act of January act of June act of March action appealed adjudication affirmed alleged allowed appellant's April Army Assistant Secretary Webster August 13 August 20 Bureau cause certificate claim for increase claim for pension claim was rejected claimant cohabitation Commissioner of Pensions Company contracted December December 21 declaration degree of disability Department desertion disease of heart earn a support enlisted entitled evidence fact February follows granted ground held honorably discharged husband incurred Infantry injury January 29 July July 14 July 27 June 27 line of duty locomotor ataxia manual labor March 19 marriage medical examination medical referee military service mustered Navy November October officers opinion pension laws person power of attorney presumption prior reason rebellion record rendered Revised Statutes rheumatism rolls rule Secretary Webster Davis September September 23 served shown sion soldier special examination tion title to pension United War Department widow wound
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Page 259 - ... dollars per month: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to repeal section forty-six hundred and ninety-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or to change the rate of eighteen dollars per month therein mentioned to be proportionately divided for any degree of disability established for which section forty-six hundred and ninety-five makes no provision.
Page 367 - no money on account of pension shall be paid to any person, or to the widow, children, or heirs of any deceased person, who in any manner voluntarily engaged in or aided or abetted the late rebellion against the authority of the United States.
Page 453 - Provided, That in case a minor child is insane, idiotic, or otherwise permanently helpless, the pension shall continue during the, life of said child, or during the period of such disability...
Page 346 - States to be a vested right in the grantee to that extent that payment thereof shall not be withheld or suspended until, after due notice to the grantee of not less than...
Page 126 - ... otherwise so disabled as to render their incapacity to perform manual labor equivalent to the loss of a hand or a foot...
Page 394 - ... no payment whatsoever of their accrued pension shall be made or allowed except so much as may be necessary to reimburse the person who bore the expense of their last sickness and burial, if they did not leave sufficient assets to meet such expense.
Page 99 - SEC. 4. That the pension laws now in force which are 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.
Page 487 - ... as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive a pension not exceeding twelve dollars per month, and not less than six dollars per month, proportioned to the degree of inability to earn a support...
Page 404 - Provided, That this act shall apply only to widows who were married to the deceased soldier or sailor prior to its passage and to those who may hereafter marry prior to or during the service of the soldier or sailor.
Page 498 - Statutes, shall be proven in compensation or insurance cases to be legal marriages according to the law of the place where the parties resided at the time of marriage or at the time when the right to...