Chapter 80. making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for deficiencies and for other purposes

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CHAP. 80.— An Act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for deficiencies and for other purposes.Feb. 26, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pensions.Appropriations. That the following sums 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-two, and for other purposes:

Army pensions.For pensions for Array invalids, widows, minors, and dependent relatives, including arrears to survivors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, *Proviso.*forty-eight million four 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 fifty thousand dollars.

Navy pensions.*Proviso.*For Navy pensions to invalids, widows, minors, and dependent *Proviso.*relatives, one million one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the appropriations aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the 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 items shall be accounted for separately. Fees of examining surgeons.*Proviso.*Rate of fees.For fees of examining surgeons, as provided by the several acts of Congress, two hundred and fifty thousand 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.

Deficiency appropriation.That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, namely: Army pensions.For pensions for Army invalids, widows, minors, and dependent relatives, including arrears, survivors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, seventeen million six hundred and ninety-two thousand and thirty-one dollars *Proviso.*and sixty-nine cents: *Provided,* That the amount expended for each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.

Navy pensions.For Navy pensions to invalids, widows, minors, and dependent relatives, five hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and seventy-four *Proviso.*dollars and ninety-nine cents: *Provided,* That the appropriations aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: *Proviso.**And provided further,* That the amount expended for each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.

Fees.For fees of examining surgeons, as provided by the several acts of Congress, thirty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. Pensioners, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, how paid. All pensions payable, or to be paid under this act, to pensioners who are inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be paid to the treasurer or treasurers of said home, upon security given to the satisfaction of the managers to be disbursed for 351 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.

Sess. III. Ch. 80, 81. 1881. the benefit of the pensioners without deduction for fines or penalties under regulations to be established by the managers of the home; said payment to be made by the pension agent upon a certificate of the proper officer of the home that the pensioner is an inmate thereof and is still living. Any balance of the pension which may remain at the date of the pensioner’s discharge shall be paid over to him: and in case of his death at the home, the same shall be paid to the widow, or children or in default of either to his legal representatives.

Approved, February 26, 1881.