Chapter 26.
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CHAP. 26.— An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty. Jan. 27, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriations. That the following stuns be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes:
Army pensions.For pensions for Army invalids, widows, minors, and dependent relatives, survivors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and willows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, twenty-eight million four *Accounts*.hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the amount expended for each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. Pension agents.For pay and allowances for salary, fees for preparing vouchers, rent, fuel, light., and postage on official matter directed to the departments and bureaus at Washington, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy pensions.For Navy pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, five hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the appropriations aforesaid for Navy pensions, shall be paid from the income of the FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 26, 27, 28. 1879. 267 Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: *And provided further,* That the amount expended for each of the above*Accounts*. items shall be accounted for separately.
For fees of examining-surgeons, as provided by the several acts ofFees of examining-surgeons.*Rate of fees*. Congress, two hundred and four thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided, *That a fee of one dollar, and no more, shall be paid to the examining-surgeon for each examination of a pensioner, as provided by law, except when the examination is made by a board of surgeons, in which case the fees now allowed by law shall be paid. Sec. 2. That any unexpended balances in the items of appropriation*Transfers*. contained in the act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, may be applied to the payment of such other items as may be found deficient under the appropriations provided for in the said act.
Approved, January 27, 1879.