nor by any means to aid in the prosecution of any such claim within two years next after he shall have ceased to be such officer, clerk, or employee. Note.-Claims for increase of pension are not considered or held as claims pending. (Secretary's decision, Oct. 6, 1885, case of Luther Harrison.) Act June 29, Sec. 6. Notaries public, District of Columbia, not prohib- 1906, vol. 84, P. ited. That section five hundred and fifty-eight of the Code of 622. Law for the District of Columbia, relating to notaries public, be amended by adding at the end of said section the following: “Provided, That the appointment of any person as such notary public, or the acceptance of his commission as such, or the performance of the duties thereunder, shall not disqualify or prevent such person from representing clients before any of the departments of the United States Government in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, provided such person so appointed as a notary public who appears to practice or represent clients before any such department is not otherwise engaged in Government employ, and shall be admitted by the heads of such departments to practice therein in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed for other persons or attorneys who are admitted to practice therein: And provided further, That no notary public shall be authorized to take acknowledgments, administer oaths, certify papers, or perform any official acts in connection with matters in which he is employed as counsel, attorney, or agent or in which he may be in any way interested before any of the departments aforesaid." Note.-SEC. 558. Notaries.-The President shall also have power to appoint such number of notaries public, residents of said District, as, in his discretion, the business of the District may require. (Code of Law, D. C.) Sec. 7. Oath of allegiance in certain cases.-Any person prosecuting claims, either as attorney or on his own account, before any of the departments or bureaus of the United States, shall be required to take the oath of allegiance, and to support the Constitution of the United States, as required of persons in the civil service. Sec. 8. Who may administer oath of allegiance. The oath provided for in the preceding section may be taken before any justice of the peace, notary public, or other person who is legally authorized to administer an oath in the State or district where the same may be administered. Note.-Form of oath required (sec. 1757, R. S.): I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. Beo. 3478, B. S. Bec. 3479, R. S. CHAPTER XVIII. PENSION LAWS RELATING LARGELY TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND BUREAUS. Section. 1. Twenty years' service in Navy or Marine Corps. 2. Ten years' service in Navy or Marine Corps. 3. Bureau of Efficiency; system of paying pensions. 4. Medal of honor roll; special pension 5. Medal of honor pensions; how paid. 7. Existing pension laws not applicable 8. Pension and compensation not payable for same period. 9. Pension not withheld from beneficiaries of the United States employees' compensation, act. Sec. 4756, R. S. Sec. 4757, R. S. Section. 10. War risk insurance act; Article III not applicable to persons entering the service after six months from August 9, 1921. 11. Pension laws applicable to persons entering the service after six months from August 9. 1921. 12. Hospital facilities for certain veterans of war with Spain, etc. 13. Veterans' Bureau hospital facilities and transportation available for certain veterans of war with Spain, etc. 14. War risk compensation may be paid for disability contracted prior to April 6, 1917, to persons in the service April 6, 1917, and discharged thereafter. 15. Burial expenses, etc., of certain veterans of any war may be paid by United States Veterans' Bureau; conditions and limitations. Section 1. Twenty years' service in Navy or Marine Corps.There shall be paid out of the naval pension fund to every person who, from age or infirmity, is disabled from sea service but who has served as an enlisted person, or as an appointed petty officer, or both, in the Navy or Marine Corps for the period of twenty years, and not been discharged for misconduct, in lieu of being provided with a home in the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, if he so elects, a sum equal to one-half the pay of his rating at the time he was discharged, to be paid to him quarterly, under the direction of the Commissioner of Pensions; and applications for such pension shall be made to the Secretary of the Navy, who, upon being satisfied that the applicant comes within the provisions of this section, shall certify the same to the Commissioner of Pensions, and such certificate shall be his warrant for making payment as herein authorized. Sec. 2. Ten years' service in Navy or Marine Corps.-Every disabled person who has served in the Navy or Marine Corps as an enlisted man, or as an appointed petty officer, or both, for a period not less than ten years, and not been discharged for misconduct, may apply to the Secretary of the Navy for aid from the surplus income of the naval pension fund; and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to convene a board of not less than three naval officers, one of whom shall be a surgeon, to examine into the condition of the applicant, and to recommend a suitable amount for his relief, and for a specified time, and upon the approval of such recommendation by the Secretary of the Navy, and a certificate thereof to the Commissioner of Pensions, the amount shall be paid in the same manner as is provided in the preceding section for the payment to persons disabled by long service in the Navy; but no allowance so made shall exceed the rate of a pension for full disability corresponding to the grade of the applicant, nor, if in addition to a pension, exceed onefourth the rate of such pension. 801. Note.-Sections 4756 and 4757, R. S., as amended by act Dec. 23, 1886 (24 Stat. L. 353, as construed by Secretary of the Interior, 12 P. D. 166), grant money benefits over the allowance of which the Commissioner of Pensions has no jurisdiction, and are intended to be a further provision for the support of the beneficiaries thereunder in addition to the pension granted by the pension laws. Sec. 4715, R. S., and proviso of second section of act June 27, 1890, have no application to this class of cases. Sec. 3. Bureau of Efficiency; system of paying pensions.— Act Sept. 8, The sum of $4,000 appropriated by the deficiency appropriation 1916, vol. 39, p. act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the purchase, rental, exchange, and remodeling of labor-saving machinery, equipment, and supplies necessary to enable the Bureau of Efficiency to demonstrate an improved system of paying pensions is reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen: Provided, That the equipment purchased hereunder shall become the property of the Bureau of Pensions when the demonstration is completed: Provided further, That the Bureau of Efficiency shall investigate the business methods of the Bureau of Pensions and prepare recommendations for the improvement thereof and submit the same to the Secretary of the Interior as early as practicable for his approval. 1916, vol. 39, p. Sec. 4. Medal-of-honor roll; special pension of $10.--That Act Apr. 27, there is hereby established in the War Department and Navy 53. Department, respectively, a roll designated as "the Army and Navy medal-of-honor roll." Upon written application made to the Secretary of the proper department, and subject to the conditions and requirements hereinafter contained, the name of each surviving person who has served in the military or naval service of the United States in any war, who has attained or shall attain the age of sixty-five years, and who has been awarded a medal of honor for having in action involving actual conflict with an enemy distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry or intrepidity, at the risk of his life, above and beyond the call of duty, and who was honorably discharged from service by muster out, resignation, or otherwise, shall be, by the Secretary of the proper department, entered and recorded on said roll. Applications for entry on said roll shall be made in such form and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the War Department and Navy Department, respectively, and proper blanks and Instructions shall be, by the proper Secretary, furnished without charge upon request made by any person claiming the benefits of this act. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War and of the Secretary of the Navy to carry this act into effect and to decide whether each applicant, under this act, in his depart Application. Certificate. Award of medal. ment is entitled to the benefit of this act. If the official award of the medal of honor to the applicant, or the official notice to him thereof, shall appear to show that the medal of honor was awarded to the applicant for such an act as is required by the provisions of this act, it shall be deemed sufficient to entitle the applicant to such special pension without further investigation. Otherwise all official correspondence, orders, reports, recommendations, requests, and other evidence now on file in any public office or department shall be considered. A certificate of service and of the act of heroism, gallantry, bravery, or intrepidity for which the medal of honor was awarded, and of enrollment under this act, and of the right of the special pensioner to be entitled to and to receive the special pension herein granted, shall be furnished each person whose name shall be so entered on said roll. The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy shall deliver to the Commissioner of Pensions a certified copy of each of such of said certificates as he may issue, as aforesaid, and the same shall be full and sufficient authority to the Commissioner of Pensions for the payment by him to the beneficiary named in each such certificate the special pension herein provided for. SEC. 3. That each such surviving person whose name shall have been entered on said roll in accordance with this act shall be entitled to and shall receive and be paid by the Commissioner of Pensions in the Department of the Interior, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, a special pension of $10 per month for life, payable quarter yearly. The Commissioner of Pensions shall make all necessary rules and regulations for making payment of such special pensions to the beneficiaries thereof. Such special pension shall begin on the day that such person shall file his application for enrollment on said roll in the office of the Secretary of War or of the Secretary of the Navy after the passage and approval of this act, and shall continue during the life of the beneficiary. Such special pension shall not deprive any such special pensioner of any other pension or of any benefit, right, or privilege to which he is or may hereafter be entitled under any existing or subsequent law, but shall be in addition thereto. The special pension allowed under this act shall not be subject to any attachment, execution, levy, tax, lien, or detention under any process whatever. SEC. 4. That in case any person has been awarded two or more medals of honor, he shall not be entitled to and shall not receive more than one such special pension. Rank in the service shall not be considered in applications filed hereunder. Sec. 5. Medal-of-honor pensions; how paid.--And provided further, That all allowances made, or hereafter to be made, to medalof-honor pensioners under the act of Congress approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be paid from the moneys appropriated for the payment of invalid and other pensions, and section three of the said act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is amended accordingly. insurance Sec. 6. Increased rate of $25 to certain widows-Civil War, Sec. 314, act Oct. 6, 1917, vol. war with Spain, and Philippine insurrection. That from and 40, p. 408 (war after the passage of this act the rate of pension for a widow of risk act). an officer or enlisted man of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States who served in the Civil War, the war with Spain, or the Philippine insurrection, now on the pension roll or hereafter to be placed on the pension roll, and entitled to receive a less rate than hereinafter provided, shall be $25 per month; and nothing herein shall be construed to affect the additional allowance provided by existing pension laws on account of a helpless child or child under sixteen years of age: Provided, however, That this act shall not be so construed as to reduce any pension under any act, public or private: And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall be administered, executed, and enforced by the Commissioner of Pensions. risk insurance Sec. 7. Existing pension laws not applicable to persons in Sec. 312, war the active service October 6, 1917, or entering it thereafter.- act, as amended That compensation under this article shall not be paid while the by act June 25, 1918, vol. 40, p. person is in receipt of service or retirement pay. The laws pro- 618. viding for gratuities or payments in the event of death in the service and existing pension laws shall not be applicable after the enactment of this amendment to any person in the active military or naval service on the sixth day of October, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or who thereafter entered the active military or naval service, or to their widows, children, or their dependents, except in so far as rights under any such law have heretofore accrued. act), Sec. 8. Pension and compensation not payable for same Secs. 10 and period.— 11, act Dec. 24, * * * That section 301 of the war risk insurance 1919 (war risk act as amended shall be deemed to be in effect as of April 6, insurance vol. 41, pp. 3721917: Provided, however, That before compensation thereunder 374. shall be paid there shall first be deducted from said sum so to be paid the amount of any payments such person may have received by way of gratuities or payments under pension laws in force and existence between April 6, 1917, and October 6, 1917. Sec. 7, act Sept. 7, 1916, * That section 302 of the war risk insurance act as amended shall be deemed to be in effect as of April 6, 1917: Provided, That any person who is now receiving a gratuity or pension under existing law shall not receive compensation under this act unless he shall first surrender all claim to such gratuity or pension. Sec. 9. Pension not withheld from beneficiaries of the U. S. employees' compensation act.-That as long as the employee is in vol. 39, p. 743. receipt of compensation under this act, or, if he has been paid a lump sum in commutation of installment payments, until the expiration of the period during which such installment payments would have continued, he shall not receive from the United States any salary, pay, or remuneration whatsoever except in return for services actually performed, and except pensions for service in the Army or Navy of the United States. Sec. 10. War risk insurance act, Article III, not applicable Sec. 22, act of to persons entering the service after six months from August Aug. 9, 1921, vol. 9, 1921.-A new section is hereby added to Article III of the 42, p. 155. |