Chapter 332.
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CHAP. 332.— 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 ninety, and for other purposes.March 1, 1889. *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 ninety, and for other purposes, namely;
Invalid, etc., pensions.For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows minor children. and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and with Mexico, eighty *Provisos*.million four hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, Navy pensions.That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may Accounts.be sufficient for that purpose: *And provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately: *And provided further*, That a check or checks drawn by Mailing check to be payment in certain cases.
R. S., sec. 4765, p. 926.a pension agent in payment of pension due. and mailed by him to the address of the pensioner, shall constitute payment within the meaning of section forty-seven hundred and sixty-five Revised Statutes, in the event of the death of a pensioner subsequent to the mailing and before the receipt of said check; and the amount which Accrued pension on death of pensioner.may have accrued on the pension of any pensioner subsequent to the last quarterly payment on account thereof and prior to the death of such pensioner shall in the case of a husband be paid to his widow, or if there be no widow to his surviving minor children or the guardian thereof, and in the ease of a widow to her minor children: *provided further*, That hereafter whenever a pension certificate shall Death of pensioner, leaving no widow nor minor child.have been issued and the pensioner mentioned therein dies before payment shall have been made, leaving no widow and no surviving minor children, the accrued pension due on said certificate to the date of the death of such pensioner may in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior be paid to the legal representatives of said pensioner: *And provided further*, That hereafter all United States Administering oaths.officers now authorized to administer oaths are hereby required and directed to administer any and all oaths required to be made by pensioners and their witnesses in the execution of their vouchers for their pensions free of charge.
Examining surgeons’ fees.For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services rendered within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, one million dollars. And each member of each examining board shall hereafter 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 *Proviso*.such day: *Provided*, That if twenty or more applicants appear on Examinations.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.
Agents’ salaries.For the salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, at four thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars. Clerk hire.For clerk-hire, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars: *Proviso*.*Provided*, That the amount of clerk-hire for each agency shall be Apportionment.apportioned as nearly as practicable in proportion to the number of pensioners paid at each agency. Fuel.For fuel, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Lights.For lights, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Stationery, etc.For stationery and other necessary expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, sixteen thousand dollars. 783 For rents, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars. And hereafterRent. the Secretary of the Treasury, where practicable, shall cause suitable rooms to be set apart in the public buildings under his controlRooms in public buildings. in the 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, 1889.