Chapter 611. 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-seven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 611.— 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-seven, and for other purposes.July 2, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pension 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-seven, and for other purposes, namely:
Pensions.For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war *Provisos.*Navy pensions paid from Navy fund.of eighteen hundred and twelve, seventy-five million 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 under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.
Fees, etc., examining surgeons.For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, eight hundred and twenty-one thousand 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 *Proviso.*Twenty examinations to be made in one day.of each additional applicant on such day: *Provided*, That if twenty or more 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.
Salaries to agents.For the salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, at four thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars; and hereafter the provisions of section three of the act approved July fifth, eighteen Official mail-matter to be carried free.Vol. 23, p. 158.hundred and eighty-four, entitled “An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes,” are hereby extended and made applicable to all official mail-matter of agents for the payment of pensions.
Clerk hire, rents, stationery, etc.For clerk hire, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; rents, twenty thousand dollars; fuel, one thousand two hundred dollars; lights, two thousand dollars; postage on letters to the Executive Departments and to pensioners, stationery, and other necessary expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, nine thousand dollars; in all. one hundred and eighty-two thousand two hundred dollars. Approved, July 2, 1886.