The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological OrderBancroft, Charles
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The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order
Bancroft, Charles
United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government
4. Mothers of all classes of persons on account of whose death
widows are entitled, provided said mothers were dependent on
the deceased for support and no minor child survived.
5. Fathers, the same as mothers, in case of the death of the
latter.
6. Brothers and sisters, under sixteen, provided they were
dependent for support upon the person on account of whose
decease they claim.
The First Section of the Act of July 14th, 1862, showing the rates of
pension to the several classes and grades, is as follows:
_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress assembled_, That if any officer,
non-commissioned officer, musician, or private of the army, including
regulars, volunteers, militia, or any officer, warrant, or petty
officer, musician, seaman, ordinary seaman, flotillaman, marine, clerk,
landsman, pilot, or other person in the navy or marine corps, has
been, since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
or shall hereafter be, disabled by reason of any wound received or
disease contracted while in the service of the United States, and in
the line of duty, he shall, upon making due proof of the fact according
to such forms and regulations as are or may be provided by, or in
pursuance of law, be placed upon the list of invalid pensions of the
United States, and be entitled to receive, for the highest rate of
disability, such pension as is hereinafter provided in such cases,
and for an inferior disability an amount proportionate to the highest
disability, to commence as hereinafter provided, and continue during the
existence of such disability. The pension for a total disability for
officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates employed
in the military service of the United States, whether regulars,
volunteers, or militia, and in the marine corps, shall be as follows,
viz.: lieutenant-colonel and all officers of a higher rank, thirty
dollars per month; major, twenty-five dollars per month; captain, twenty
dollars per month; first lieutenant, seventeen dollars per month; second
lieutenant, fifteen dollars per month; and non-commissioned officers,
musicians and privates, eight dollars per month. 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, thirty dollars per month; lieutenant, surgeon, paymaster,
and chief engineer, respectively, ranking with lieutenant by law, and
passed assistant surgeon, twenty-five dollars per month; professor
of mathematics, master, assistant surgeon, assistant paymaster, and
chaplain, twenty dollars per month; first assistant engineer and pilots,
fifteen dollars per month; passed midshipman, midshipman, captain’s, and
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