United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 8718U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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Page 175 - ... them for the performance of manual labor as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact, according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners...
Page 173 - That from and after the approval of this act all persons now on the pension roll, and all persons hereafter granted a pension, who, while in the military or naval service of the United States and in line of duty, shall have lost one hand or one foot, or have been totally disabled in the same...
Page 172 - That the widow of any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days or more in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the War with Spain, the Philippine Insurrection, or the China Relief Expedition, between April 21, 1898, and July 4, 1902...
Page 95 - When the pain is sorest the child is born, And the Day of the Lord at hand.
Page 171 - A bill granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war with Spain, the Philippine insurrection, or the China relief expedition, to certain maimed soldiers, to certain widows, minor children...
Page 172 - ... years, such widow shall, upon due proof of her husband's death, without proving his death to be the result of his army...
Page 173 - ... after the approval of this act; and as to persons whose names are not now on the pension roll, or who are not now in receipt of a pension under existing law, but who may be entitled to pension under the provisions of this act, such pensions shall commence from the date of filing application therefor in the Bureau of Pensions...
Page 94 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Page 175 - China relief expedition, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, or who, having served less than ninety days, were discharged for disability incurred in the service in line of duty...