Laws and abstracts of laws relating to Army and Navy pensions |
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20 mother according to law act entitled act of July affidavit aforesaid Agent application for arrears approved July army arrears see Form chil child or children children under sixteen Claimant's signature commence commissioned officer company and regiment County of day court of record date of death dates of birth deceased disability discharge disease contracted dollars per month duly sworn according eighteen hundred enlisted entitled An act entitled to receive evidence father filed former wife further enacted ginal grant pensions guardian half-pay hereby appoints husband Identification and jurat increase invalid pension July 14 July 27 June legal guardian line of duty marriage minor child mother mustered Names and dates naval service navy non-commissioned officers numbered oath original pension orphans pension agency pension certificate post office address prior provost marshals remarriage remarried repealed sion soldiers surgeons surviving testimony third assistant engineer tion United vessel and rank widow witnesses wounds received
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Page 71 - ... shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.
Page 20 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution and government of the United States against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign, and that I will bear true faith, allegiance, and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution, or law of any State convention or legislature to the contrary notwithstanding...
Page 79 - States, and leave a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children, under sixteen years of age, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to and receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years...
Page 83 - Navy is authorized to convene a board of not less than three naval officers, one of whom shall be a surgeon, to examine into the condition of the applicant, and to recommend a suitable amount for his relief and for a specified time, and upon the approval of such recommendation by the Secretary of the Navy, and...
Page 61 - Corps, whether regularly mustered or not. disabled by reason of any wound or injury received, or disease contracted, while in the service of the United States and in the line of duty.
Page 8 - ... military service, was at the time actually in the field, or on the march, or at some post, fort, or garrison, or en route, by direction of competent authority, to some post, fort, or garrison; or, if in the naval service, was at the time borne on the books of some ship or other vessel of the United States, at sea or in harbor, actually in commission, or was at some naval station, or on his way, by direction of competent authority, to the United States or to some other vessel or naval station...
Page 68 - ... claimant, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall, for every such offence, be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both, according to the circumstances and aggravations of the offence.
Page 61 - The pension for total disability for officers, warrant or petty officers, and others employed in the naval service of the United States, shall be as follows, viz: Captain, commander, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, respectively, ranking with commander by law, lieutenant commanding, and master commanding...
Page 57 - Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution.
Page 54 - Provided always, that the compensation to be allowed for such wounds or disabilities, to a commissioned officer, shall not exceed for the highest rate of disability half the monthly pay of such officer, at the time of his being disabled or wounded...