Chapter 208. Making appropriations fortlie payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 208.— An Act Making appropriations fortlie payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes. May 28, 1908.[[H. R. 16268.]](/us/bill/70/hr/16268)[[Public, No. 118.]](/us/pl/70/118) *Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatines of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Pensions appropriations. 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, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes, namely:
Forarmy and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minorInvalid, etc., pensions. children, and dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, one*Provisos.*Navy pensions. hundred and sixty-two million dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions shall be paid from the income ot the navy pension fund, so far as the sumo shall be sufficient for that purpose: 419 *Provided further*, That the amount expended under each of theAccounts.Soldiers’ homes, etc.Payments to inmates of, direct. above items shall be accounted for separately: *And provided further*, That from and after the passage of this Act all pensioners who may be inmates of any soldiers’ and sailors’ home, or other institution maintained by any State for the benefit of dependent or other disabled volunteer soldiers, shall have their respective pensions paid to them directly instead of to the treasurer or other officer of the home or institution at which they may be respectively located.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for servicesExamining surgeons.Fees. rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, five hundred thousand dollars. And hereafter each member of each examiningIncrese·of fee.R.S.,sec. 4777, p. 928, amended. board shall receive the sum of three 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*Provisos.*Examinations. 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, and the fee shall be threeFees for, if made at claimant’s residence. dollars when the examination is made by one surgeon, and the fee for each examination at the claimant’s residence provided his residence is outside of the corporate limits of the place of the regular meeting of theTraveling expenses. examining board or of the place of residence of the surgeon, making the examination shall be five dollars in addition to the payment of the actual traveling ex penses of the surgeon: *Provided further*, That no fee shall bePersonal presence required. paid to any member of an examining board unless personally present and assisting in the examination of applicant: *And provided further*, ThatRatings to be specifically stated, etc. the report of such examining surgeons shall Spcciticallystate the rating which in their judgment the applicant is entitled to, and the report of such examining surgeons shall specifically and accurately set forth the physical condition of the applicant, each and every existing disability being fully and carefully described. the reports of the special examinersInspection of reports, etc. of the Bureau of Pensions shall be open to inspection and copy by the applicant or his attorney, under such rules and regulations as tne Secretary of the Interiormay prescribe: *And provided further*,Penalty for attempting to secure special legislation.
That hereafter no pension attorney, claim agent, or other person shall be entitled to receive any compensation for services rendered in securing the introduction of a bill or the passage thereof through Congress granting pension or increase of pension, and any person who. shall, directly or indirectly, contract for, demand, receive, or retain any compensation for such services shall be deemed guilty of an offense, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every such offense, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Fiir salariesof agents for the payment of pensions, at four thousandAgents’ salaries. dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. For clerk hire and other services, in the pension agencies, fourClerk hire. hundred and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That the amount of clerk hire, and other services, for*Proviso.*Apportionment each agency, shall Iieapportioned as nearly as practicable in proportion to the number of pensioners paid nt each agency and the salaries paid shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
For rent, New York agency, four thousand live hundred dollars orRent, New York agency. so much thereof as may ne necessary. For examination and inspection of pension agencies, as provided byInspection of agencies.Vol. 22, p. 374.R.S.,sec. 4766, p. 927. the final provision of the Act of August eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, amending section forty-seven hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes, one thousand five hundred dollars. 420 For stationery and other necessary expenses, sixty-five thousandStationery, etc.*Proviso.*Franked envelopes for pensioners. dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall furnish free to all pensioners franked or penalty envelopes, properly addressed, to be used by said pensioners only for the return of their pension vouchers.
Approved, May 28, 1908.