Pension Bill: 1916, Hearings ... 63d Congress, 3d Session1914 - 25 pages |
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act of October actual traveling expenses adjudication allowed Amount disbursed amount paid applications Army asked Austria-Hungary average annual value BARTLETT Bureau of Pensions BYINGTON CAMPBELL CANNON checks Civil War soldiers claimants classes clerk Commissioner of Pensions COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS corporate limits cost DAVIS deficiency division Dutch West Indies employees ended June 30 examining surgeons expenditure fees and expenses filed fiscal year 1917 foreign countries furnish GALLIVAN GEORGE W give granted by special HINEBAUGH increase Indian War Invalids JOSEPH G June 27 last fiscal legislation loss matter ment monthly payment Navy number of deaths number of pensioners old soldiers payment of pensions PENSION APPROPRIATION BILL Pension Bureau pension roll pensioners in foreign pensions on account reduction reference roll June 30 SALTZGABER Sherwood bill shows the number sioners Spain Spanish-American War special acts statement total number voucher Wade Hampton War Trade Board WILLIAM E
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Page 14 - Wisconsin state organizations of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the Daughters of the American Revolution...
Page 15 - Report of the Commissioner of Pensions for the fiscal year ended June 30...
Page 5 - Pensions for use in a pension claim shall be * ! and in lieu of actual traveling expenses there shall be paid 10 cents per mile for the distance actually traveled each way, but not exceeding the distance by the most direct route between the surgeon's office and the claimant's home.
Page 1 - An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for deficiencies, and for other purposes/ approved February twentysixth, eighteen hundred 'and eighty-one, is hereby revived and continued in force.
Page 5 - The largest number of Civil War widows on the roll was in 1912 304, 373 War of 1812.
Page 9 - Pensions granted by special act during the Sixty-third Congress subsequent to June 30, 1914. Of the above, 918 were granted to persons not in receipt of a pension and 3,249 to persons then receiving smaller pensions. The annual value of said special-act pensions is $1,257,006, and the annual increase due to the same is $552,507. The following statement shows the number of pensions and increases...
Page 8 - That when a claimant is so disabled as not to be able to present himself to a board of surgeons for examination, the Commissioner may order a surgeon to make the examination at the claimant's residence; and the fee for such examination shall be two dollars in addition to the payment of the actual traveling expenses of the surgeon...
Page 12 - ... is maintained, all pension paid upon the new grant being charged to the law under which it is made, and the old rate being merged in the new from the date to which payment was last made at the old rate. The grants under the act of May 11, 1912, have been very largely to pensioners who were on the roll under the act of February 6, 1907, as will appear Number of pensioners. Amount paid.
Page 13 - June 30, 1914 369 624 97 506 549 73 256 67 by the following tnble, which shows the number on the roll under said latter act on the dates in the above table and gives also the amounts disbursed and the average annual values: The total of original allowances under the ict of May 11, 1912, to claimants not on the roll under other laws for the three years noted was 1,456, and the balance was made up of transfers from the general law and the act of June 27, 1890, classes of Civil War survivors.
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