Chapter 141. 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-five, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 141.— 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-five, and for other purposes.July 18, 1894. *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-five, and for other purposes, namely:
For Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minorInvalid, etc., pensions. children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and with Mexico, and the survivors and widows of the Indian wars of eighteen hundred and thirty-two to eighteen hundred and forty-two, inclusive, one hundred and fifty million dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid*Provisos*.Navy pensions. 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 itemsAccounts. shall be accounted for separately.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services renderedExamining surgeons. within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one million dollars. And each member of each examining board shall, as now authorized by la w, receive the sum of two dollars for t he examination ofFees. 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 if twenty or more applicants appear*Proviso*.Examinations. 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: *Provided further*, That noNo fee unless service rendered. fee shall be paid to any member of an examining board unless personally present and assisting in the examination of applicant: *Provided*, That the report of such examining surgeons when filed in the PensionClaimant may inspect report.
Office shall be open to the examination and inspection of the claimant or Ids attorney, under such reasonable rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide. 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 and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*,Clerk hire.*Proviso*.Apportionment. 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, and the salaries paid shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, but the appointment of the clerk to signClerk to sign checks- official checks, who shall receive the same compensation at each agency as was paid during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen 114 hundred and ninety-four, shall be made by the pension agent without other or further approval.
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, thirty-five thousand dollars. Rent.For rents, twenty-three thousand and seventy dollars. Approved, July 18, 1894.