Pensions--Indian Wars: Hearings Before the Committee on Invalid Pensions, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session on H.R. 1006, H.R. 3996, H.R. 4924, H.R. 4991, H.R. 4999, H.R. 7899, H.R. 8030, and H.R. 9149, Bills to Liberalize the Now Existing Benefits with Reference to Veterans and Dependents of Veterans of the Indian Wars. January 22 and 23, 1940 |
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$50 a month $50 per month active Indian hostilities Administrator of Veterans aid and attendance August 25 band bill BOLLES camp CHAIRMAN Cheyenne CHITTENDEN Civil War veterans Colonel Rodgers command Committee on Invalid Congress cost of approximately December 31 Department disability entitled existing law fiscal year 1940 Fort Meade Fort Robinson Gillette Government Governor granting pensions HAMILTON HARTMAN helpless or blind HINES House of Representatives increased pensions Indian campaign Indian war pension Indian war service Indian war veterans Invalid Pensions January 19 JOHN LESINSKI legislation Meade Mississippi River muster roll October October 25 organization paid a pension payable pension rolls person rates of pension receive record reduce any pension regular aid Salt Lake City SCHAFER service pension rate settlers Sioux South Dakota Spanish-American War Spring Creek Company Tenth Cavalry troops United States Soldiers UPDIKE Utah Ute Indians War Department Washington Wyoming zone
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Page 84 - That any such person who is now or hereafter may become, on account of age or physical or mental disabilities, helpless or blind, or so nearly helpless or blind as to need or require the regular aid and attendance of another person, shall be paid the rate of $72 a month: And provided further, That no one while an inmate of the United States Soldiers...
Page 48 - ... 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 84 - ... the performance of manual labor 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 85 - ... of another person, shall be entitled to and shall be paid a pension at the rate of $125 per month.
Page 36 - That if any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days or more in the Army or Navy of the United States during the late civil war and who has been honorably discharged therefrom has died or shall hereafter die, leaving a widow, such widow shall, upon due proof of her husband's death, without proving his death to be the result of his army or navy service, be placed on the pension roll...
Page 34 - That every person who served ninety days or more in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the Civil War, and who has been honorably discharged therefrom, or who, having so served less than ninety days, was discharged for a disability incurred in the service and in the line of duty...
Page 84 - Act until the pension -to the child or children terminates, unless such child or children be a member or members of her family and cared for by her; and when these conditions are fulfilled and the pension is granted to the widow, payment of pension to such child or children shall cease...
Page 49 - China relief expedition, who may become, on account of age or physical or mental disabilities, helpless or blind*, or so nearly helpless or blind as to need or require the regular aid and attendance of another person, shall be given a rate of $50 a month: Provided, That no one while an inmate of the United States Soldiers...
Page 84 - 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 48 - States, and be entitled to receive a pension not exceeding .$30 per month and not less than $12 per month, proportioned to the degree of inability to earn a support; and in determining such inability each and every infirmity shall be duly considered, and the aggregate of the disabilities shown be rated...