Chapter 169. To amend an Act entitled “An Act granting a service pension to certain defined veterans of the Civil War and the War with Mexico,” approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve
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CHAP. 169.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act granting a service pension to certain defined veterans of the Civil War and the War with Mexico,” approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve.March 4, 1913.[[H. R. 28093](/us/bill/62/hr/28093).][[Public, No. 454](/us/pl/62/154).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Service pensions.*Ante*, p. 113, amended. That the general pension Act of May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby amended by striking out section five and adding in lieu thereof a new section, so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Pensions,Record of pensions granted. as each application for pension filed under this Act is adjudicated, to cause to be kept a record showing the name, length of service, and age of each claimant, the monthly rate of payment granted to or received by him, and the county and State of his residence; and shall at theTabulations, end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen tabulate the records so obtained by States and counties, and to furnish certified copies thereof upon demand and payment of such fee therefor as is provided by law for certified copies of records in the executive departments; and that further increase of rate under this Act on account of advancingIncrease with advancing age without further application. age shall be made without further application by pensioner and shall take effect and commence from the date he is shown by the aforesaid record to have attained the age provided by this Act as a basis of rating: *Provided*, That where a claim has been heretofore*Proviso*.Further investigation if date of birth not established. adjudicated and the record therein does not sufficiently establish the date of birth of the soldier or sailor pensioner nothing herein shall prevent such further investigation as is deemed necessary, in order to establish a record upon which future increases of rate under this Act, on account of advancing age, may be possible, the object being toPensions to advance automatically. advance automatically the rate of pension, as provided for by this Act, without unnecessary expense to the pensioner.”" Approved, March 4, 1913.