Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Appealed Pension and Retirement Claims (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... REVISED STATUTES NOW IK FORCE APPERTAINING TO PENSIONS. Sec. 4692. Every person specified in the several classes who nro enti enumerated in the following section, who has been, since'0 t0 P0"'0"8the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, ms.' or who is hereafter disabled under the conditions therein isl.c'1,14 Jnly' stated, shall, upou making due proof of the fact, according to such forms and regulations as are or may bo provided in pursuance of law, be placed on the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive, for a total disability, or a permanent specific disability, such pension as is hereinafter provided in such cases; and for an inferior disability, except in cases of permanent specific disability, for which the rate of pension is expressly provided, an amount proportionate to that provided for total disability; and such pension shall commence as hereinafter provided, and continue during the existence of the disability. Sec. 4693. The persons entitled as beneficiaries unler unjl(j- the preceding section arc as follows: section. First. Any officer of the Army, inclnding regulars, vol-8ec.1,8March, unteers, and militia, or any officer in the Navy or Marine Bm-i. M July. Corps, or any enlisted man, however employed, in the military or naval service of the United States, or in its Marine m6therremiCorps, whether regularly mustered or not, disabled by rea-not sou of any wound or injury received, or disease contracted, Sec. n, 4 July, while in tho service of the United States and in the line of sec. 1,3March, i. 1873. dllty. Soo.10,14 July, Second. Any master serving on a gunboat, or any pilot, "jitters, engineer, sailor, or other person not regularly mustered, resolution, la serving upon any gunboat or w...