Chapter 313. 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-eight, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 313.— 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-eight, and for other purposes.March 1, 1887. *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-eight, and for other purposes, namely:
For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows, minorArmy and Navy pensions. children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war 440 of eighteen hundred and twelve, seventy-five million dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*. That the appropriations aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from Navy.To be separately accounted fur.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 under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, for services renderedExamining surgeons, fees, etc. within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one million Boards.dollars. And each member of each examining board shall, as now authorized by law, receive the sum of two dollars for the examination of each applicant whenever five or a less number shall be examined on any one day, and one dollar for the examination of each additional applicant on such day: *Provided*, That if twenty or more *Proviso*.applicants appear on one day, no fewer than twenty shall, if practicable, be examined on said day, and that if fewer examinations be then made, twenty or more having appeared, then there shall be paid for the first examinations made on the next examination day the fee of one dollar only until twenty examinations shall have been made.
For the salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, atAgents. four thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars. For clerk-hire, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Clerk-hire.Fuel.Lights.Stationery, etc. For fuel, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For lights, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For stationery and other necessary expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, nine thousand dollars. For rents, twenty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury,Rent.Rooms in public buildings. where possible, shall cause suitable rooms to be set apart in the public buildings under his control in cities where pension agencies are located, which shall be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior, for the use and occupancy of the said agencies respectively.
Approved, March 1, 1887.