Chapter 194. Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 194.— 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 seventeen, and for other purposes. June 30, 1916. [[H. R. 15775](/us/bill/64/hr/15775).] [[Public, No. 121](/us/pl/64/121).] *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 are 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 seventeen, 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, $158,000,000: *Provided, *That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy*Proviso.*Navy pensions. pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided further,*Accounts.
That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately: *And provided further, *That all allowancesMedal of honor pensioners. made, or hereafter to be made, to medal of honor pensioners under the Act of Congress approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be paid from the moneys appropriated for the payment of invalid and other pensions, and section three of the said Act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is*Ante*, p. 54, amended. amended accordingly.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for servicesExamining surgeons.Fees, etc. rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $65,000. Approved, June 30, 1916.