Decisions of the Department of the Interior: In Appealed Pension and Retirement Claims, Also a Table of Cases Reported, Cited, Distinguished, Modified, and Overruled and of Statutes Cited and ConstruedUnited States. Department of the Interior, United States. Department of the Interior. Office of the Solicitor U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - Bounties, Military Volumes 1 to 20 are confined to decisions relating to pensions and bounty-land claims. Volumes 21 to 22 contain decisions relating to pensions and civil service retirement claims. |
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$30 per month accompanied your report accrued pension act of June act of March action aforesaid alleged allowed appellant application Army arrears Assistant Secretary Bussey attorney August 17 battle of Shiloh Bureau of Pensions cause certificate child or children claim for pension claimant cohabitation Commissioner of Pensions Company condition Congress contract court court-martial Department disability discharge disease divorce enlistment entitled evidence fact filed foregoing granted ground held Herewith are returned husband increase incurred injury January January 29 John Ritchie July July 25 June 27 line of duty manual labor marriage minor children Missouri officer papers which accompanied pension laws pension on account pensionable purposes pensionable status person power of attorney prior prosecution reason received record Regiment remarriage result returned the papers rule sixteen soldier soldier's death special act special examiner statute surgeon Tarwater testimony tion title to pension varicose veins Volunteers widow widow's pension wife
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Page 58 - ... full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation; hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do, or cause to be done, by virtue hereof.
Page 61 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present...
Page 286 - ... 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...
Page 323 - States are hereby required, empowered, and authorized to administer any and all oaths required to be made by pensioners and their witnesses in the execution of their vouchers with like effect and force as officers having a seal ; and such postmaster shall affix the stamp of his office to his signature to such vouchers...
Page 424 - That all persons who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion and who have been honorably discharged therefrom...
Page 335 - That a man and woman deporting themselves as husband and wife have entered into a lawful contract of marriage; 31.
Page 227 - ... and such pension shall commence from the date of the filing of the application in the Pension Office, after the passage of this act, upon proof that the disability then existed, and shall continue during the existence of the same...
Page 434 - It shall not be lawful for any person appointed after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, as an officer, clerk, or employe' in any of the departments to act as counsel, attorney, or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States which was pending in either of said departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employe...
Page 288 - ... the open and notorious adulterous cohabitation of a widow who is a pensioner shall operate to terminate her pension from the commencement of such cohabitation.
Page 319 - All pensions which have been, or which may hereafter be, granted in consequence of death occurring from a cause which originated in the service...