Chapter 302. Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other, pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 302.— An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other, pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes. March 4, 1909.[[H. R. 26203](/us/bill/70/hr/26203).][[Public, No. 831](/us/pl/70/831).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 ten, and for other purposes, namely:
For army and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows,Invalid, etc., pensions. minor 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 hundred and sixty million dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation*Provisos.*Navy pensions. aforesaid for navy pensions shall be paid from the income or the navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided farther*, That the amount expended under each of theAccounts. above items shall be accounted *for* separately: *And provided further*, 1058 That when an additional pension has been, or may hereafter be,Additional, because of helpless child. granted by special act to a widow or guardian on account of a helpless child, such additional pension shall in no wise affect the rate of pensionPrior rate to widow not affected. the widow may be entitled to independent of such additional allowance.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for servicesExamining surgeons.Fees. rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, four hundred thousand dollars. For salaries of 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 thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That the amount of clerk hire and other services for eachProviso.Apportionment. 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 rent, New York agency, four thousand live hundred dollars, orRent, New York agency. so much thereof as may be necessary. For examination and inspection of pension agencies, as providedInspection of agencies.Vol. 22, p. 371.R S., sec. 4766, p, 927. by 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 live hundred dollars. For stationery and other necessary expenses, thirty thousand dollars:Stationery, etc. *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall hereafter*Provisos*.Franked envelopes for pensioners. 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: *And provided further*, That hereafter the settlementReimbursement for burial, etc., expenses. of all claims for the reimbursement of expenses of the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners shall be under the direction of the Commissioner of Pensions.
Approved, March 4, 1909.