Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Pension Claims, and the Laws of the United States Granting and Governing Pensions, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 - Bounties, Military |
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Page 432 - ... any gratuity, or any share of or interest in any claim from any claimant against the United States, with intent to aid or assist, or in consideration of having aided or assisted, in the prosecution of such claim, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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Page 434 - Statutes, shall be proven in compensation or insurance cases to be legal marriages according to the law of the place where the parties resided at the time of marriage or at the time when the right to...
Page 432 - ... who shall wrongfully withhold from a pensioner or claimant the whole or any part of the...
Page 399 - That the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates engaged in the military service of the United States in the war with Mexico...
Page 67 - ... person" is used in its most comprehensive sense in section 1766 of the Revised Statutes, as follows: "SEC. 1766. No money shall be paid to any person for his compensation who is in arrears to the United States, until he has accounted for and paid into the Treasury all sums for which he may be liable.
Page 278 - An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," have died, leaving a widow whose marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of his service, such widow shall be entitled to receive, during the time she may remain unmarried, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband, by virtue of the act aforesaid, if living at the time it was passed.
Page 432 - States, any deed, power of attorney, order, certificate, receipt, contract, or other writing, in support of, or in relation to, any account or claim, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than ten years.
Page 216 - 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.