Sec. 1657, R. S.

Sec. 5, Act May

States, to suppress Indian depredations in Florida, shall be entitled to all the benefits which are conferred on persons wounded or otherwise disabled in the service of the United States. Sec. 11. Invalid pensions for Creek War, and so forth.-The 23, 1836, Vol. 5, volunteers who may have been received into the service of the p. 33. United States by virtue of the provisions of an act of Congress approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for the purpose of quelling disturbances and repelling invasions by hostile Indians, shall be entitled to all the benefits which may be conferred on persons wounded in the service of the United States. Sec. 12. Officers and men of the Navy and marines disabled in line of duty.-If any officer, warrant or petty officer, seaman, engineer, first, second, or third assistant engineer, fireman, or coal heaver of the Navy, or any marine has been disabled prior to the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, by reason of any injury received or disease contracted in the service and line of duty, he shall be entitled to receive during the continuance of his disability a pension proportionate to the degree of his disabilty not exceeding half the monthly pay of his rank as it existed in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

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Sec. 13. Navy widows' pensions prior to March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.--If any person referred to in the preceding section has died in the service of injury received or disease contracted under the conditions therein stated, his widow shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the date of his death; and in case of her death or marriage, the child or children under sixteen years of age shall be entitled to the pension.

Note. The law makes a distinction between the widows of sailors and the widows of soldiers whose service terminated prior to March 4, 1861, the former being pensionable only if the sailor died in the service, while the latter are pensionable if the soldier died of disability contracted in some war prior to 1861. (Mary Kelley, 8 P. D. 382.)

Sec. 14. Navy pensions payable from Navy pension fund.The Navy pensions shall be paid from the Navy pension fund, but no payments shall be made therefrom except upon appropriations authorized by Congress.

Sec. 15. Widows' and minors' five years' half pay.-When any officer, noncommissioned officer, artificer, or private of the militia or volunteer corps dies in the service of the United States, or in returning to his place of residence after being mustered out of service, or at any time in consequence of wounds received in service, and leaves a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death during the term of five years; and in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of the decedent. And the Secretary of the Interior shall adopt such forms of evidence in applications under this section as the President may prescribe.

Sec. 4728, R. S.

Sec. 4729, R. S.

Sec. 4755, R. S.

Sec. 1656, R. S.

Sec. 4732, R. S.

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Sec. 16. Widows' and children's pensions for War of 1812 and various Indian wars.-The widows, and children under sixteen years of age, of the officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the regulars, militia, and volunteers of the war of one thousand eight hundred and twelve and the various Indian wars since one thousand seven hundred and ninety, who remained at the date of their death in the military service of the United States, or who received an honorable discharge and have died, or shall hereafter die of injury received or disease contracted in the service and in the line of duty, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time he received the injury or contracted the disease which resulted in his death. But no half-pay pension shall exceed the half pay of a lieutenant colonel, and such half-pay pension shail be varied after the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in accordance with the provisions of section 4712 of this title.

Sec. 17. Invalid pensions to soldiers of War of Eighteen 11, 1812, Vol. 2, hundred and twelve.-If any officer, noncommissioned officer, musician, or private shall be disabled by wounds or otherwise, Sec. 5, Act Feb. while in the line of his duty in public service, he shall be placed 6, 1812, Vol. 2, on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of penp. 677.

sion and under such regulations as are or may be directed by law: Provided always, That the compensation to be allowed for such wounds or disabilities to a commissioned officer shall not exceed for the highest rate of disability half the monthly pay of such officer at the time of his being disabled or wounded, and that no Sec. 2, Act Aug. officer shall receive more than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel; 2, 1813, Vol. 3, and that the rate of compensation to noncommissioned officers, p. 74.

Sec. 4780, R. S.

Sec. 4731, R. S.

musicians, and privates shall not exceed five dollars per month: And provided also, That all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so disabled to receive an allowance proportionate to the highest disability.

Sec. 18. Invalid pensions for War with Mexico.-Any officer, noncommissioned officer, musician, or private, whether of the Regular Army or volunteers, disabled by reason of injury received or disease contracted while in the line of duty in actual service in the war with Mexico, or in going to or returning from the same, who received an honorable discharge, shall be entitled to a pension proportionate to his disability, not exceeding for total disability half the pay of his rank at the date at which he received the wound or contracted the disease which resulted in such disability. But no pension shall exceed half the pay of a lieutenant colonel.

Sec. 19. Pension to widows and children, War with Mexico.If any officer or other person referred to in the preceding section has died, or shall hereafter die, by reason of any injury received or disease contracted under the circumstances therein set forth, his widow shall be entitled to receive the same pension as the husband would have been entitled to had he been totally disabled; and in case of her death or remarriage the child or children of such officer or other person referred to in the peceding section, while under the age of sixteen years, shall be entitled to receive

the pension. But the rate of pension prescribed by this and the preceding section shall be varied after the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in accordance with the provisions of section four thousand seven hundred and twelve of this title.

Sec. 20. Commencement from date of filing last requisite paper. In all cases in which the cause of disability or death originated in the service prior to the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and an application for pension shall not have been filed within three years from the discharge or death of the person on whose account the claim is made, or within three years of the termination of a pension previously granted on account of the service and death of the same person, the pension shall commence from the date of filing by the party prosecuting the claim the last paper requisite to establish the same. But no claim allowed prior to the sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be affected by anything herein contained.

Sec. 21. Revenue cutters cooperating with the Navy.—The officers and seamen of the revenue cutters of the United States, who have been or may be wounded or disabled in the discharge of their duty while cooperating with the Navy by order of the President, shall be entitled to be placed on the Navy pension list, at the same rate of pension and under the same regulations and restrictions as are provided by law for the officers and seamen of the Navy.

Sec. 22. Pensions to certain privateersmen.-The Secretary of the Interior is required to place on the pension list, under the like regulations and restrictions as are used in relation to the Navy of the United States, any officer, seaman, or marine who, on board of any private armed vessel bearing a commission of letter of marque, shall have been wounded or otherwise disabled in any engagement with the enemy, or in the line of their duty as officers, seamen, or marines of such private armed vessels; allowing to the captain a sum not exceeding twenty dollars per month; to lieutenants and sailing master a sum not exceeding twelve dollars each per month; to marine officer, boatswain, gunner, carpenter, master's mate, and prize masters a sum not exceeding ten dollars each per month; to all other officers a sum not exceeding eight dollars each per month for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; and to a seaman, or, acting as a marine, the sum of six dollars per month for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; which several pensions shall be paid from moneys appropriated for the payment of pensions.

Sec. 23. Rates for widows of Revolution increased to $8.The provisions of this title in respect to the rates of pension to persons whose right accrued since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, are extended to pensioners whose right to pension accrued under general acts passed since the War of the Revolution and prior to the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to take effect from and after the twentyfifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and the widows of Revolutionary soldiers and sailors receiving a less sum shall

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Sec. 4741, R. S.

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be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month from and after the twenty-seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

Note.-Rate increased to $12 per month by act of Mar. 19, 1886 (see p. 37), in cases of widows who were married prior to such date, or prior to or during the service upon which the application for pension is based.

Sec. 24. Certain Navy rates not to be reduced. That section 1880, Vol. 21, p. three of an act entitled "An act increasing the pensions of widows and orphans, and for other purposes," approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and section thirteen of an act entitled "An act relating to pensions," approved July twentyseventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and section forty-seven hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes, shall not operate to reduce the rate of any pension which had actually been allowed to the commissioned, noncommissioned, or petty officers of the Navy or their widows or minor children, prior to the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to restore all such pensions as have already been so reduced to the rate originally granted and allowed, to take effect from the date of such reduction.

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Section 1. Dependency pensions to soldiers and sailors.- Act Mar. 18, Every commissioned officer, noncommissioned officer, musician, 410. and private soldier, and all officers in the hospital department and medical staff who served in the War of the Revolution until the end thereof, or for the term of nine months or longer at any period of the war, on the Continental Establishment, and every commissioned officer, noncommissioned officer, mariner, or marine who served at the same time and for a like term in the naval service of the United States, who is yet a resident citizen of the United States, and who is, or hereafter, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, shall be in need of assistance from his country for support, and shall have substantiated his claim to a pension, shall receive a pension from the United States; if an officer, of twenty dollars per month during life; if a noncommissioned officer, musician, mariner, marine, or private soldier, of eight dollars per month during life: Provided, That no person shall be entitled to the provisions of this section until he shall have relinquished his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States.

Note.-The War of the Revolution, within the meaning of the above act, terminated in April, 1783, on the ratification of the treaty of peace of January 20, 1783. (Opinion of Attorney General Wirt, February 12, 1825. 1 Op., 701.)

Sec. 1, Act May 15, 1828, Vol. 4,

Sec. 2. Full pay for life to certain officers.-Each of the surviving officers of the Army of the Revolution in the Continentalp. 269. line who, having continued in the service to the end of the war, was entitled to half pay by the resolve of October twenty-first, seventeen hundred and eighty, shall be authorized to receive the amount of his full pay in said line, according to his rank in the line, to begin on the third of March, eighteen hundred and twentysix, and to continue during his natural life: Provided, That under this act no officer shall be entitled to receive a larger sum than the full pay of a captain in said line.

And be it further enacted that whenever any of said officers has Sec. 2. received money of the United States as a pensioner, since the