Chapter 46. 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-seven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 46.— 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-seven, and for other purposes.March 6, 1896. *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-seven, 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 forty 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: *Provided further,*Accounts.
That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. That whenever a claim for pension under the Act of June twenty-seventh,Pensions restored after rejection, etc., to date from first filing.Vol. 26, p. 182. eighteen hundred and ninety, has been, or shall hereafter be, rejected, suspended, or dismissed, and a new application shall have been, or shall hereafter be, filed, and a pension has been, or shall hereafter be, allowed in such claim, such pension shall date from the time of filing the first application, provided the evidence in the case shall show a pensionable disability to have existed, or to exist, at the time of filing such first application, anything in any law or ruling of the Department to the contrary notwithstanding.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services renderedExamining surgeons.Fees, etc. within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety seven, seven 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 if twenty or more*Provisos.*Examinations. applicants appear on one day, no fewer than twenty shall, if practicable, be examined or 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,*No fee unless service rendered.
That no fee shall be paid to any member of an examining board unless personally present and assisting in the examination of applicant: *Provided,*Rating. That the report of such examining surgeons shall specifically state the rating which in their judgment the applicant is entitled to.Agents’ salaries. For salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, at four 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. For fuel, two hundred and fifty dollars.Fuel. 46FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 46–48. 1896. ForLights. lights, five hundred dollars. ForStationery, etc. stationery and other necessary expenses, exclusive of clerical services, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, thirty thousand dollars.
ForRents. rents, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars. Approved, March 6, 1896. Chapter 47: To authorize the construction of a bridge across Lake Saint Francis, in the State of Arkansas. 29 Stat. 46 1896-03-06 Chapter 47 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-10-30 54 2 public
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Chapter 46
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-seven, and for other purposes
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