Chapter 639. making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States fur the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 639.— An Act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States fur the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes.June 30, 1890. *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-one, and for other purposes, namely:
For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows,Invalid, etc., pensions. minor children, and dependent relatives: survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and with Mexico, ninety-seven million ninety thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall*Provisos*.Navy pensions. 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 beAccounts. accounted for separately: *And provided further*, That hereafter a check or checks drawn by a pension agent in payment of pension due. and mailed by him to the address of the pensioner, shall constituteMailing check to be payment in certain cases. payment within the meaning of section forty-seven hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes, in the event of the death of a pensioner subsequent[R.
S., sec. 4765, p. 926](/us/rs/r/s4765/p926). to the mailing and before the receipt of said check; 188 Accrued pension on death of pensioner.and the amount which 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 case of a widow to her minor children: *Provided further*, That hereafter whenever a Death of pensioner, leaving no widow nor minor child.pension certificate shall 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 said pensioner may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be paid to the legal Commissioner of Pensions to report June 30, 1891, totals of late civil war pensions, fraudulent pensions, arrears, etc., paid, and of persons to whom paid.representatives of said pensioner: *And provided further*, That the Commissioner of Pensions, in his Report for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall show the total disbursements from July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one to pensioners of the late civil war; and, also, the number of pensions granted, between said dates, because of said war; and, also, the number of pensioners of said war, whose names have been stricken from the roll between and including said dates because of their having fraudulently or improperly obtained pensions, together with the amounts disbursed to them during the time their names were upon the roll; and, also, the number of persons to whom arrears will have been Vol. 5, pp. 265, 469–470.paid under the acts of January twenty-fifth and March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to the thirtieth day of June eighteen hundred and ninety-one, together with the sum total of the arrears so paid.
Examining surgeons’ fees.For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services rendered within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 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.
Agents’ salaries.For the salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, at four thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars. In case In sickness or absence of agent, acting officer may discharge all his duties.of the sickness or unavoidable absence of any pension agent from his office, he may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, authorize the chief clerk, or some other clerk employed therein, to act in his place, to sign official checks, and to discharge all the other duties required by law of such pension agent; and, with like approval, Official checks may be signed by authorized clerk.Agent’s bond to cover acts of acting officer.New bond required.Acting officer subject to same penalties, etc., as agent.any pension agent may designate and authorize a clerk to sign the name of the pension agent to official cheeks.
The official bond given by the principal of the office shall be held to cover and apply to the acts of the person appointed to act in his place in such cases, and a new bond shall be required from all pension agents now in office. Such acting officer shall, moreover, for the time being, be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for the official misconduct, in like cases, of the pension agent for whom he acts. Clerk hire.*Proviso*.For clerk-hire, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the amount of clerk-hire for each agency shall be apportioned Apportionment.as nearly as practicable in proportion to the number of pensioners paid at each agency.
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, twenty-five thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 639, 340. 1890.189 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 control in the cities where pension agencies are located, which shall be acceptableRooms in public buildings. to the Secretary of the Interior, for the use and occupancy of the said agencies respectively.
Approved, June 30, 1890.