Chapter 161. 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-three, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 161.— 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-three, and for other purposes.July 13, 1892. *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-three, 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, including allowances under the act of Congress approved June twenty-seventh,Vol. 26, p. 182. eighteen hundred and ninety, and all arrears of pensions granted by the acts of January twenty-fifth and March third, eighteenVol. 20, pp. 265, 469. hundred and seventy-nine, or by any other existing law, one hundred and forty-four million nine hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall*Provisos*. be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the sameNavy pensions. may be sufficient for that purpose: *And provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accountedAccounts. for separately.
And any unexpended balance of the appropriation forBalance for arrears covered in. the payment of the arrears of pensions granted by the act of Congress approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine,Vol. 20, pp. 265, 469. made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, is hereby covered into the Treasury. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services renderedExamining surgeons' fees. within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one million two hundred and fifty 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 of each additional applicant on such day: *Provided*, That*Provisos*. 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 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: *Provided further*, That no fee shall be paid to any member ofNo fee unless service rendered. an examining board unless personally present and assisting in the examination of applicant.
For salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, at fourAgents’ salaries. thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars. For clerk hire, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided* That theClerk hire. *Proviso*. Apportionment. 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, and the salaries paid shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. For fuel, seven hundred and fifty dollars.Fuel. 120 For lights, seven hundred and fifty dollars.Lights.
For stationery and other necessary expenses, to be approved by theStationery, etc. Secretary of the Interior, thirty-five thousand dollars. For rents, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.Rent. Approved, July 13, 1892.