Synopsis of Pension Laws of the United States Also Regulations and Instructions Relating Thereto with Tables of Rates and Information in Regard to Soldiers' Homes |
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$30 per month Act July act of June act of March Act of September age of 16 aid and attendance allowed appeal appellee application April 19 April 21 attorney of record bureau action child or children child under 16 China relief expedition Chinese Boxer rebellion Civil claimant Commandant Soldiers Commissioner of Pensions County date of birth date of death date of filing death or divorce declaration disability incurred earn a support entitled to pension Fall River County granted honorably discharged therefrom incurred in service inguinal hernia inmate July 16 July 27 June 27 line of duty manual labor March 19 Marine Corps marriage military or naval minor child mother national soldiers naval service officer or enlisted permanently helpless person who served Philippine insurrection post-office address rate of pension remarried widows Revised Statutes served 90 days service in line soldier or sailor soldiers and sailors Spain survivors thereof verified copy wife
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Page 21 - Act until the pension to such child or children terminates, unless such child or children be a member or members of her family and cared for by her, and upon renewal of pension to such widow, payment of pension to such child or children shall cease.
Page 14 - July 4, 1902, inclusive, service to be computed from date of enlistment to date of discharge, and was honorably discharged from such service, or, regardless of the length of service, was discharged for or died in service of a disability incurred in the service and...
Page 25 - 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 13 - Imposed upon widows by the act of June 27. 1890, as amended by the act of May 9, 1900, with the exception that the requirements as to dependence are ellmlnnted.
Page 9 - ... any bounty or gratuity, other than from the United States, in excess of that to which he would have been entitled if he had continued to serve faithfully until honorably discharged under any contract of service previously entered into by him during the War of the Rebellion.
Page 25 - 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, and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering from any mental or physical disability or disabilities...
Page 20 - widow" means (except for purposes of chapter 19 of this title) a woman who was the wife of a veteran at the time of his death, and who lived with him continuously from the date of marriage to the date of his death (except where there was a separation which was due to the misconduct of, or procured by, the veteran without the fault of the...
Page 45 - Honorably discharged officers, soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Regular, Volunteer, or other forces of the United States in any war in which the country has been engaged, in campaigns against hostile Indians, or who served in any of the extraterritorial possessions of the United States, in foreign countries, including Mexican border service, or in the Organized Militia or National Guard when called into the Federal service, and who are disabled by disease or wounds, and by reason...
Page 14 - The widow or remarried widow of any person who served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the Civil War...
Page 7 - ... suffering from a mental or physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support...