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Porto Rico Infantry. Provisional Regiment. Status of, act February 2,
1901

Postage. Amount permissible to attorneys_

Postmasters:

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71

Fourth-class may administer oaths in execution of pension vouchers.
Act August 23, 1894_.

Rural delivery carriers may administer oaths in execution of pension
vouchers. Act June 25, 1910__.

Powell's battalion. (See War with Mexico.)

Power of attorney:

Penalty for forging, or transmitting forged.
Code__.

Pensions of foreign residents not to be paid on.
Presumption:

85

Section 29, Criminal

118

Act March 14, 1898_

Death from seven years' unexplained absence. Act March 13, 1896__
Legal termination of pension. Section 4719, Revised Statutes__
Soundness at enlistment. Act March 3, 1885__

Principals. Defined. Section 332, Criminal Code___

Printed instructions. In pension claims, furnished free of charge. Sec-
tion 4748, Revised Statutes__

Prior soundness. Presumption of. Act March 3, 1885_.

Privateer pension fund:

How derived. Section 4759, Revised Statutes_

Secretary of the Navy to be trustee of. Section 4758, Revised Statutes_
To be paid into Treasury. Section 4760, Revised Statutes__.

Privateers:

Commanding officer of, to enter in journal name and rank of wounded
or disabled officer or seaman. Section 4762, Revised Statutes_____
Transcript of journal to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy.
Section 4763, Revised Statutes_-

Privateersmen. Wounded or disabled, Secretary of the Interior required
to place on pension list; rates. Section 4761, Revised Statutes___
Prize money. Accruing to United States, to remain a fund for pensions.
Section 4752, Revised Statutes_.

Professional assistance.

To be furnished by Attorney General, etc.

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54

Sec-

tion 187, Revised Statutes_
Prohibition. Against persons formerly in departments prosecuting claims
in them for two years after separation from service. Section 190,
Revised Statutes____

7

57

Provisional Missouri Militia. (See Missouri Militia.)
Provost marshal and deputy provost marshal. Pensionable status of.
Section 4693, Revised Statutes_

20

Q.

Qualified surgeons. (See Surgeons.)

R.

Rank:

Determined by date of commission or appointment, when. Section
4696, Revised Statutes___

29

Held at time of contracting disability governs rate of pension, when.
Sections 4695 and 4696, Revised Statutes____

28, 29.

How determined in case of remuster. Act February 24, 1897_
Not considered in determining rate under acts June 27, 1890; May 9,
1900; February 6, 1907, and May 11, 1912_.

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29-33

Rate:

According to rank at date of incurrence of disability. Section 4696,
Revised Statutes__.

Arrears of pension. Acts January 25, 1879, and March 3, 1879_.
$18, division of, for degrees of disability less than total. Section
4699, Revised Statutes_

For Army nurses, Rebellion service. Act August 5, 1892 (sec. 1.) ––

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27

Rate Continued.

For dependent relatives.

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Section 4707, Revised Statutes, and act

June 27, 1890 (sec. 1) --.
For Indian wars, survivors increase. Act February 19, 1913__.
For Indian war survivors or widows. Acts July 27, 1892; June 27,
1902, and May 30, 1908_.

49, 50

13, 14

For loss of arm at or above elbow; or leg at or above knee. Act
June 18, 1874____.

For loss of arm at shoulder joint and loss of leg at hip, equalized.
Act March 3, 1885_

For loss of both hands or both feet, or sight of both eyes. Act June
17, 1878___

For loss of one hand and one foot. Act February 28, 1877––
For loss of sight of both eyes. (Act June 17, 1878, construed.)
March 3, 1879_-

Act

For Mexican War survivors or widows. Act January 29, 1887__.
For nonspecific disabilities, fixed by office rulings. Table of rates,

No. 3.

For permanent specific disabilities, subsequent to July 4, 1864, and
prior to June 4, 1872. Section 4697, Revised Statutes__

For permanent specific disabilities subsequent to June 4, 1872. Sec-
tion 4698, Revised Statutes__.

For permanent specific disabilities. Table of rates, No. 2.

For remarried widows, on restoration to the rolls. Acts March 3,
1901, and February 28, 1903-

For service pensions, etc. Table of rates, No. 4__
For simple total disability. Table of rates, No. 1_-
For total disability. Section 4695, Revised Statutes_

51-53

For total disability, certain naval officers entitled according to rela-
tive rank. Acts March 3, 1877, and June 18, 1878_

For total disability, requiring frequent and periodical aid; intermedi-
ate grade. Act July 14, 1892__

For total incapacity for manual labor. Act March 3, 1883-
For widows and minors—

Increase in-

Act March 19, 1886-

Act April 19, 1908 (sec. 1)_.

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47

In case of remuster.

Acts June 27, 1890 (sec. 3), and May 9, 1900.
Act February 24, 1897.

Two dollars per month additional for each child under 16 years
of age.
Section 4703, Revised Statutes__

Automatic.

In claims allowed by special act. Section 4720, Revised Statutes__
Increase-

Act March 2, 1895, rates less than $6 per month.

4, 1913.
Commencement of, section 4698, Revised Statutes__
Indian survivors to $20 per month. Act February 19, 1913_.
Loss of arm at or above elbow, or leg at or above knee. Acts
March 3, 1883, and August 4, 1886_.

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41

Act May 11, 1912 (sec. 5), amended by act March

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40

15

38, 39

Loss of arm at or above elbow, or leg at or above knee, or total
disability in same. Act March 2, 1903__

39

Loss of arm at shoulder joint or leg at hip joint, or inability to
use artificial limb. Acts August 4, 1886, and March 2, 1903___
Loss of both feet. Act March 2, 1903_

Loss of one hand and one foot, or total disability in same.

Act

March 2, 1903__.

39

Loss of one hand or one foot, or total disability in same. Acts
March 3, 1883, August 4, 1886, and March 2, 1903.

38, 39

Total blindness. Act April 8, 1904.

Total deafness. Acts August 27, 1888, and January 15, 1903____ 39, 40
Total helplessness. Acts June 18, 1874, and June 16, 1880_.
Total helplessness, requiring regular aid and attendance. Act
March 4, 1890___.

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36

40

War with Mexico, survivors.

Acts January 5, 1893, April 23,

1900, and March 3, 1903___

17

Rate Continued.

Increase Continued.

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War with Mexico, survivors $30 per month. Act May 11, 1912__ 18, 32
Widows, minors, and dependent relatives, $12 per month. Act
March 19, 1886--

44

Widows, minors, and helpless children, to $12 per month. Act
April 19, 1908 (sec. 1).

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41

Minimum of $6 established in invalid claims based on disability.
Act March 2, 1895-

Minimum of $12 to widows, minors under 16 years, and helpless
minors. Act April 19, 1908 (sec. 1).

Of service allowances, Navy pension fund. Sections 4756, 4757, Re-
vised Statutes___

Of widow's pension not affected by additional to widow or guardian,
under special act, because of helpless child. Act March 4, 1909___
Original restored in certain claims. Act June 9, 1880___.
Rank not considered in determining-

Act June 27, 1890 (sec. 2).

Act May 9, 1900-

Act February 6, 1907 (sec. 2).
Act April 19, 1908 (sec. 2).

Act May 11, 1912 (sec. 2).
Rights accruing since March 4, 1861, extended to those whose rights
accrued prior to that date. Section 4712, Revised Statutes____
To widows and minors, same as that to which soldier or sailor en-
titled for total disability. Section 4702, Revised Statutes__
Rating. To be specifically stated in report of examining surgeons.
May 28, 1908__.

Act

Record. Name, etc., to be kept of allowances under Act May 11, 1912, and
copies furnished. Act March 4, 1913–

Records:

Copies, bureau when furnished, and fees for. Act August 24, 1912__.
Making false entries in; penalty. Act March 4, 1911.

108

127

Public, penalty for forging. Section 28, Criminal Code____

118

145

76

148

148

Reduction of pension:

Act June 21, 1879-

Act December 21, 1893_.

Regulations and instructions:

As to accrued and reimbursement claims__.

As to appeals----

As to applications for artificial limbs or medical appliances___
As to applications for back pay, extra pay, bounty, or prize money-
As to applications for certificate of service in lieu of lost discharge__
As to attorneys--

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63

As to claims for payment of pension to wives of insane pensioners,
or to wives of pensioners undergoing imprisonment_--

145

As to claims for renewal and restoration___.

143

As to claims for share of pension of inmates of the Government Hos-
pital for the Insane___

As to pensions to survivors of wars prior to March 4, 1861, and their
widows

Not paid to State, county, or municipal corporations. Act March
3, 1905

Claims for, under jurisdiction of Commissioner of Pensions. Act
March 4, 1909

Reimbursement-Continued.

Of expenses of last sickness and burial, when and to whom made.
Act March 2, 1895----

Regulations relative to claims for__
Rejected, suspended, or dismissed claims, under Act June 27, 1890. Com-
mencement in. Act March 6, 1896--

Remarriage:

Bar to pension imposed by Act March 3, 1865, against certain widows
removed. Act February 28, 1903 (sec. 2).

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145

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53

Death or divorce of second husband, effect on widow's title to resto-
ration-

Act March 3, 1901-

51

Act February 28, 1903_.

53

Of widow; title of minors; Mexican War claims. Section 4731, Re-
vised Statutes___

15

Of widow, dependent mother or sister not a bar to pension, to date of.
Section 4708, Revised Statutes amended, acts March 3, 1901 (sec.
1) and February 28, 1903 (sec. 1)--

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Of widow terminates pension-

Section 4702, Revised Statutes___

Act March 9, 1878 (sec. 2)---

Removal, charge of desertion. (See Application; also Desertion.)
Remuster. Rate of pension in case of. Act February 24, 1897---
Renewal and restoration:

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11

106

After dropping account failure to claim. Section 4719, Revised
Statutes..

92

Claim for, regulations relative to..

143

Of widow on renewed widowhood. Acts March 3, 1901, and Feb-
ruary 28, 1903_.

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Reports:

False, penalty for making. Act March 4, 1911

127

Of examining surgeons to be open to inspection. Act July 18, 1894__
Of special examiners to be open to inspection and copy. Act May
28, 1908__

6

Resident. (See Citizenship; also Foreigners, foreign residents, and non-
resident.)

Restoration:

Attorney fees in claims for. Act July 4, 1884 (sec. 4).
(See also Table of attorney fees.)

60

Of pensionable rights upon removal of charge of desertion. Act
March 2, 1889 (sec. 8)---

103

Of pension to persons whose claims accrued prior to March 4, 1861-
Act March 9, 1878 (sec. 5).

12

Act June 9, 1880_.

19

Regulations and instructions as to claims for__

143

Right to, extended to widows on renewed widowhood where barred
under act March 3, 1865, by reason of remarriage. Act February
28, 1903 (sec. 2).

53

To duty following desertion, effect on pensionable status. Act March
2, 1889 (sec. 4).

102

To pension roll. Section 4719, Revised Statutes__.

92

To rolls, means of support a factor in determining widow's title to.
Acts March 3, 1901 (sec. 1), and February 28, 1903 (sec. 1)
To rolls, on renewed widowhood, conditions of. Acts March 3, 1901
(sec. 1), and February 28, 1903 (sec. 1)–
To rolls, widow not entitled to, where pension has accrued to minor
or helpless child, unless. Acts March 3, 1901 (sec 1), and Febru-

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51-53

ary 28, 1903 (sec. 1)__.
Retention of discharge papers, etc. Agent or attorney; penalty. Act
May 21, 1872___

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114

Retired list. Persons on, not entitled to pension. Acts August 29, 1890,
March 3, 1891, May 27, 1908, and January 28, 1915_.
Revenue cutters:

97

Revised Statutes

Officers and seamen of, entitled to pension, when. Section 4741,

To cooperate with Navy, when. Section 2757, Revised Statutes____

Revenue-Cutter Service. Pensions not allowed to persons in. Act May
27, 1908_

Revised Statutes, sections of. (See Table of contents.)
Revolutionary War. (See War of Revolution.)

Rules and regulations:

Governing attorneys before the Bureau of Pensions_.

In pension and bounty-land appeals_‒‒‒‒‒

Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, governing the recognition

of attorneys. Act July 4, 1884 (sec. 5).
(See also Regulations and instructions.)

Rural-delivery carriers. Authorized to administer oaths in execution of
pension vouchers. Act June 25, 1910 (sec. 2)-

85

S.

Sailors or other persons (not regularly mustered). Serving on gunboat
or war vessel, entitled for disability. Section 4693, Revised Statutes__
St. Elizabeth's. (See Government Hospital for Insane.)

Seamen:

Of Navy, disabled prior to March 4, 1861, title to pension. Section
4728, Revised Statutes..

Of revenue cutters, disabled while cooperating with Navy, title to
pension. Section 4741, Revised Statutes__

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Secretary of the Navy:

Applications for 20 and 10 years' service allowances to be filed with.
Sections 4756 and 4757, Revised Statutes__

To decide claims for pension to be paid out of the privateer pension
fund. Section 4761, Revised Statutes___

To invest Navy pension fund, how. Section 4753, Revised Statutes__
To issue certificate of discharge, etc., in true name of person serving;
restriction. Act August 22, 1912_

To issue certificates of discharge in certain cases. Acts August 14,
1888 (sec. 4), and May 24, 1900_

Trustee of Navy pension fund and privateer pension fund. Sections
4750 and 4758, Revised Statutes___.

Secretary of the Treasury.

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98

99, 101

54

May authorize issue of duplicate checks,
when. Act February 23, 1909_.

86

Secretary of War:

Authorized to issue duplicate certificate of discharge, when. Section
224, Revised Statutes__

98

To furnish discharge certificates to members of Missouri Home
Guards. Act May 15, 1886__

98

To issue certificates of discharges, etc., in true name of person serv-
ing; restriction. Act August 22, 1912___

98

To remove charge of desertion in cases of certain Regular and Vol-
unteer soldiers. Act March 2, 1889___
Seizure, attachment, or levy, pension not liable to. Section 4747, Revised
Statutes

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93

Service:

Bounty-land warrant, prima facie evidence of—

Act March 9, 1878 (sec. 3) -

Act January 29, 1887 (sec. 3).

Effect of honorable discharge from, on prior contracts of service not
honorably terminated. Joint resolutions July 1, 1902 (sec. 2), and
June 28, 1906‒‒‒‒‒‒

Length of, an element of title-

As to Civil War-

Act June 27, 1890 (secs. 2 and 3).

29, 46

As to Indian Wars. Acts July 27, 1892, June 27, 1902, and May
30, 1908____

13, 14

As to Navy service allowances. Sections 4756 and 4757, Revised
Statutes

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