Chapter 369. 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-nine, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 369.— 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-nine, and for other purposes.June 7, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pension 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-nine, and for other purposes, namely:
For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows,Invalid, etc., pensions. minor children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and with Mexico, eighty million four hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*.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 be sufficient for that purpose: *And provided further*, That all pensionsWidows’ pensions to date from death of husband.[R.
S., secs. 4709, 4710. pp. 917, 918](/us/rs/t/s4709/4710/pp917/918). which have been, or which may hereafter be, granted under the general laws regulating pensions to widows in consequence of death occurring from a cause which originated in the service since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall commence from the date of death of the husband: *And provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall beAccounts. 174FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 369, 370. 1888. accounted for separately: *And provided further*, That all United Oaths to be administered by officers free.States 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. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services renderedExamining surgeons’ fees. etc. within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one million 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 *Proviso*.Examinations.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.
For the salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, atAgents’ salaries. four thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars. For clerk-hire, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars:Clerk-hire.*Proviso*.Apportionment. *Provided*, That the amount of clerk-hire for each agency shall be apportioned as nearly as practicable in proportion to the number of pensioners paid at each agency. For fuel, seven hundred and fifty dollars.Fuel.Lights.Stationery, etc. For lights, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For stationery and other necessary expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, sixteen thousand dollars. For rents, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars. And the SecretaryRents.Rooms in public buildings where practicable. of the Treasury, where practicable, 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, June 7, 1888.