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Act May 31, 1830, Vol. 4, p. 426.

Act May 15, 1828, Vol. 4, p. 270. Sec. 3.

Act July 14, 1832, Vol. 4, p. 600.

Sec. 1, Act June 7, 1832, Vol. 4, p. 529.

third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, aforesaid, the sum so received shall be deducted from what said officer would otherwise be entitled to under the first section of this act; and every pension to which said officer is now entitled shall cease after the passage of this act.

Sec. 3. No deduction as above in case of invalid pensioners.That the second section of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners, and that the pension of invalid soldiers shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act.

Sec. 4. Full pay for life to certain noncommissioned officers and privates.-Every surviving noncommissioned officer, musician, or private in said Army, who enlisted therein for and during the war, and continued in service until its termination, and thereby became entitled to receive a reward of eighty dollars under a resolve of Congress passed May fifteenth, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, shall be entitled to receive his full monthly pay in said service out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life: Provided, That no noncommissioned officer, musician, or private in said Army who is now on the pension list of the United States shall be entitled to the benefits of this act.

Sec. 5. No deduction as above in case of invalid pensioners.That the third section of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners; and that the pension of invalid soldiers shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act.

Sec. 6. Service pension to Army and Navy.-Each of the surviving officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, soldiers, and Indian spies who shall have served in the Continental line, or State troops, volunteers or militia, at one or more terms, a period of two years during the War of the Revolution, and who are not entitled to any benefit under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution passed the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, be authorized to receive out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury the amount of his full pay in the said line according to his rank, but not exceeding in any case the pay of a captain in the said line, such pay to commence from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and shall continue during his natural life; and that any such officer, noncommissioned officer, musician, or private, as aforesaid, who shall have served in the Continental line, State troops, volunteers or militia, a term or terms in the whole less than the above period, but not less than six months, shall be authorized to receive during his natural life, each according to his term of service, an amount bearing such proportion to the annuity granted to the same rank for the service of two

years as his term of service did to the term aforesaid, to commence from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.

Sec. 5, Act June 7, 1832, Vol. 4,

p. 530.

The officers, noncommissioned officers, mariners, or marines, who served for a like term in the naval service during the Revolutionary War shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, in the same manner as is provided for the officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution: Provided, That no person receiving any annuity or pension under any law of the United States providing for Revolutionary officers and soldiers shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless he shall first relinquish his further 7, 1832, Vol. 4, claim to such pension; and in all payments under this act the p. 530. amount which may have been received under any other act, as aforesaid, since the date at which the payments under this act shall commence shall first be deducted from such payment.

Sec. 2, Act June

Sec. 7. No deduction as above in case of invalid pensioners.-- Act Feb. 19, 1833, Vol. 4, p. That the second section of the act, entitled "An act supplementary 612. to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners; and that the pensions of invalid soldiers shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act.

Sec. 8. Widow, while unmarried, to receive the annuity or Act July 4, 1836, Vol. 5, p. pension. That if any person who served in the War of the 128. Sec. 3. Revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution" have died, leaving a widow whose marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of his service, such widow shall be entitled to receive, during the time she may remain unmarried, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband, by virtue of the act aforesaid, if living at the time it was passed.

Act Feb. 3,

Sec. 9. Widows of officers and men of the Army married 1853, Vol. 10, p. after January 1, 1800.-That the widows of all officers, non- 154, sec. 2. commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the Revolutionary Army, who were married subsequent to January, anno Domini eighteen hundred, shall be entitled to a pension in the same manner as those who were married before that date.

Sec. 10. Widows of officers and men of the Navy married Act Feb. 28, 1855, Vol. 10, p. after January 1, 1800.-That the widows of the officers, non-616, sec. 3. commissioned officers, marines, or mariners who served in the Navy of the United States during the Revolutionary War, and who were married since the first day of January, eighteen hundred, shall be entitled to pensions in the same manner and to the same extent as the widows of the officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, under the second section of the act of February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.

Sec. 11. Certain Revolutionary claims of descendants barred. From and after the second day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, no claim for a pension, or for an increase of pension, shall be allowed in favor of the children or other de

Sec. 4742, R. S.

Sec. 4743, R. S.

Sec. 6, act Mar.

p. 29.

scendants of any person who served in the War of the Revolution, or of the widow of such person, when such person or his widow died without having established a claim to a pension.

Sec. 12. Rule of evidence in widows' claims. In all cases where a pension has been granted to any officer or soldier of the Revolution in his lifetime, the evidence upon which such pension was granted shall be conclusive of the service of such officer or soldier in the application of any widow, or woman who may have been the widow, of such officer or soldier, for a pension; and upon proof by her that she was married to any such officer or soldier, and that she is a widow, she shall thereupon be placed upon the pension rolls at the same rate as such officer or soldier received during his lifetime.

Sec. 13. Fourteen - days - service pension to widows. Any 9, 1878, Vol. 20, widow of a Revolutionary soldier who served fourteen days, or was in any engagement, shall be placed upon the pension rolls of the United States, and receive a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month.

Note.-Rate increased to $12 by act of Mar. 19, 1886.

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Sec. 4736, R. S.
Act Feb. 14,

411.

Section 1. Sixty-days-service pension to soldiers and sailors. The Secretary of the Interior is directed to place on the 1871, Vol. 16, p. pension roll the names of the surviving officers and enlisted and drafted men, including militia and volunteers, of the military and naval service of the United States who served sixty days in the war with Great Britain of eighteen hundred and twelve, and were honorably discharged, and such other officers and soldiers as may have been personally named in any resolution of Congress for any specific service in that war, although their term of service may have been less than sixty days, subject, however, to the provisions of section forty-seven hundred and sixteen.

Sec. 2. Rates of service pensions.-Pensions under the preceding section shall be at the rate of eight dollars per month, and shall be paid to the persons entitled thereto for the term of their lives from and after the fourteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. But that section shall not apply to any person who is receiving a pension at the rate of eight dollars or more per month; nor to any person who is receiving a pension less than eight dollars per month, except for the difference between the pension now received and eight dollars per month.

Sec. 3. Sixty-days-service pension to widows. The surviving widows of such persons as are embraced within the provisions of the two preceding sections shall be allowed, on the conditions and limitations therein expressed, the same pension that such persons themselves would have been entitled to receive thereunder if living on the fourteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and and seventy-one: Provided, however, That such widows were married to the husbands, on account of whose services the pension is claimed, prior to the treaty of peace which terminated the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and have not remarried.

Note.-Rate increased to $12 by act of Mar. 19, 1886, and to $30 by act of May 1, 1920.

Sec. 4. Regulations to be prescribed by Secretary of the Interior. Before the name of any person is placed upon the pension roll under the three preceding sections proof shall be made, under such regulations at the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, that the applicant is entitled to a pension under the provisions of the sections herein cited; and the Secretary of the

Sec. 4737, R. S.

Sec. 4738, R. S.

Sec. 4739, R. S.

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Sec. 4740, R. S.

Act Mar. 9, 1878, Vol. 20, p.

27.

Interior shall cause to be stricken from the pension roll the name of any person whenever it appears, by proof satisfactory, that such name was put upon such roll through false or fraudulent representations.

Sec. 5. Loss of discharge certificate.-The loss of a certificate of discharge shall not deprive an applicant of the benefits of sections forty-seven hundred and thirty-six, forty-seven hundred and thirty-seven, forty-seven hundred and thirty-eight, but other proof of services performed and of an honorable discharge, if deemed satisfactory, shall be sufficient.

Sec. 6. Fourteen-days-service pension, War of 1812; restoration of certain pensions.-That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension rolls the names of the surviving officers and enlisted and drafted men, without regard to color, including militia and volunteers, of the military and naval service of the United States, who served for fourteen days in the war with Great Britain of eighteen hundred and twelve, or who were in any engagement and were honorably discharged, and the surviving widows of such officers and enlisted and drafted men.

SEC. 2. That this act shall not apply to any person who is receiving a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month or more, nor to any person receiving a pension of less than eight dollars per month, except for the difference between the pension now received (if less than eight dollars per month) and eight dollars per month. Pensions under this act shall be at the rate of eight dollars per month, except as herein provided, and shall be paid to the persons entitled thereto, from and after the passage of this act, for and during their natural lives: Provided, That the pensions to widows provided for in this act shall cease when they shall marry again.

SEC. 3. That before the name of any person shall be placed upon the pension rolls under this act proof shall be made, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of Pensions, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall prescribe, that the applicant is entitled to a pension under this act; and any person who shall falsely take any oath required to be taken under the provisions of this act shall be guilty of perjury; and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be stricken from the rolls the name of any person when it shall appear, by proof satisfactory to him, that such name was put on said rolls by or through false or fraudulent representations, or by mistake as to the right of such person to a pension under this act. The loss or lack of a certificate of discharge shall not deprive the applicant of the benefit of this act, but other proof of the service performed and of an honorable discharge, if satisfactory, shall be deemed sufficient; and when there is no record evidence of such service and such discharge the applicant may establish the same by other satisfactory testimony: Provided, That when any person has been granted a land warrant under any act of Congress for and on account of service in the said war of eighteen hundred and twelve, such grant shall be prima facie evidence of his service and honorable discharge, so as to entitle him, if living, or his widow, if he be dead, to a pension

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