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(ACT of March 3d, 1817.)

SEC. 1. All persons of the aforesaid ranks who may hereafter be placed on the military pension roll of the United States, shall according to their ranks and degrees of disabilities, be placed on at the aforesaid rates of pensions in lieu of those heretofore esta blished: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to lessen the pension of any person, who by special provision is entitled to a higher pension than is herein provided.

23. SEC. III. All laws and regulations relating to the admission of the officers and soldiers of the regular army to be placed on the pension roll of the United States, shall, and they are hereby declared to relate equally to the officers and soldiers of the militia whilst in the service of the United States.

24. SEC. IV. The secretary of the department of war, is hereby authorised and required to appoint some fit and proper person in those states and territories where there is no commissioner of loans, and also in the district of Maine, to perform the duties in those states and territories, and in said district respectively relating to pensions and pensioners, which are now required of said commissioners in their respective states.

ACT of March 3, 1817. Pamphlet edit. 281.

25. SEC. 1. The widows and children of soldiers of the militia, the volunteers, the rangers, and the sea fencibles, who served during the late war, and for whom half pay for five years was provided, by an act passed on the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled "An act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes," shall be placed on an equality as to their annual allowance, that is to say: Such widows, and in case of no widows, such children as may be embraced in the before recited act shall be entitled to receive (as the half pay to which they are entitled) at the rate of forty-eight dollars per annum, and no more; and the widows and children aforesaid, of the officers of the different corps aforesaid, shall be entitled to the half pay of the officers of the infantry.

SEC. IV. The widows and children of the non commissioned officers of the rangers, shall be placed on the same footing as to half pay, for five years, with the widows and children of the infantry.

SEC. V. The provisions of the second section of the act, to which this is a supplement, [Supra, 21.] shall be extended to all cases where either of the children therein mentioned, shall have been under sixteen years of age at the time of the father's decease: Provided, The guardian of such minor children, shall, in addition to the relinquishment by the said act required, file in the office of the department of war, evidence of the assent of all the other heirs, if any there be, of said deceased soldier, or of their guardians to such relinquishment.

(ACT of March 18th, 1818.)

SEC. VI. In all cases where the child or children of a regular soldier, deceased, have the right under the laws of the United States, to relinquish their bounty in land, for five years half pay, the said child or children shall be entitled to the same amount, as is given by the act to the widows of the militia and soldiers, who died in service during the late war, viz: four dollars per month. [Infra, 31.]

ACT of March 18, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 35.

26. SEC. 1. Every commissioned officer, noncommissioned officer, musician, and private soldier, and all officers in the hospital department and medical staff, who served in the war of the revolution until the end thereof, or for the term of nine months or longer, at any period of the war, on the continental establishment; and every commissioned officer, noncommissioned officer, mariner, or marine, who served at the same time, and for a like term, in the naval service of the United States, who is yet a resident citizen of the United States, and who is, or hereafter, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, shall be in need of assistance from his country for support, and shall have substantiated his claim to a pension, in the manner hereinafter directed, shall receive a pension from the United States: if an officer, of twenty dollars per month during life; if a noncommissioned officer, musician, mariner, marine, or private soldier, of eight dollars per month during life: Provided, no person shall be entitled to the provisions of this act, until he shall have relinquished his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States.

27. SEC. 11. To entitle any person to the provisions of this act, he shall make a declaration, under oath or affirmation, before the district judge of the United States of the district, or before any judge or court of record of the county, state, or territory in which the applicant shall reside, setting forth, if he belonged to the army, the company, regiment, and line to which he belonged; the time he entered the service, and the time and manner of leaving the service; and, in case he belonged to the navy, a like declaration, setting forth the name of the vessel, and particular service in which he was employed, and the time and manner of leaving the service, and shall offer such other evidence as may be in his power; and on its appearing to the satisfaction of the said judge, that the applicant served in the revolutionary war, as aforesaid, against the common enemy, he shall certify and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the secretary of the department of war, whose duty it shall be, if satisfied the applicant comes under the provisions of this act, to place such officer, musician, mariner, marine, or soldier on the pension list of the United States, to be paid in the same manner as pensions to invalids, who have been placed on the pension list, are now paid, and under such restrictions and regulations, in all respects, as are prescribed by law.

(ACT of March 3d, 1819.)

SEC. 111. Every pension, by virtue of this act, shall commence on the day that the declaration under oath or affirmation, prescribed in the foregoing section, shall be made.

28. SEC. IV. From and after the passage of this act, no sale, transfer or mortgage of the whole, or any part of the pension payable in pursuance of this act, shall be valid; and any person who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be thereof convicted, shall suffer as for wilful and corrupt perjury.

ACT of March 3d, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 78.

29. SEC. 1. In all cases of application for the payment of pensions to invalids, under the several laws of congress granting pensions to invalids, the affidavit of two surgeons or physicians, whose credibility, as such, shall be certified by the magistrate before whom the affidavit is made, stating the continuance of the disability for which the pension was originally granted, (describing it,) and the rate of such disability at the time of making the affidavit, shall accompany the application of the first payment which shall fall due after the fourth day of March next, and at the end of every two years thereafter; and if, in a case of a continued disability, it shall be stated at a rate below that for which the pension was originally granted, the applicant shall only be paid at the rate stated in the affidavit: Provided, That where the pension shall have been originally granted for a total disability, in consequence of the loss of a limb, or other cause which cannot, either in whole, or in part, be removed, the above affidavit shall not be necessary to entitle the applicant to payment: And provided also, That this act shall not extend to the invalids of the revolution, who have been, or shall be, placed on the pension list, pursuant to an act of congress, entitled" An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war," approved the eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight.

ACT of March 3, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 87.

30. SEC. 1. From and after the passing of this act, the secretary for the department of war, is hereby authorised to appoint an agent, in addition to the one already appointed in the state of Tennessee, under the act of the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for the purpose of paying pensioners of the United States, residing in East Tennessee; whose duties shall be in all respects similar to those appointed under the aforementioned act.

ACT of March 3, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 91.

31. SEC. I. The second section of the act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes, approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and so much of the act to amend the same, approved

(ACT of May 1st, 1820.)

March third, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as relates to the subject of that section, shall be continued in force for the term of three years from and after the passing of this act: Provided, nevertheless, That no pension shall be granted under the said acts, after the sixteenth day of April next, unless, at the time of relinquishing the bounty land, in the manner therein described, the children, for whose benefit the same may be granted, or one of them, shall be under sixteen years of age: And provided also, That the pensions shall commence at the date of the relinquishments respectively. [Supra, 21, 25.]

ACT of March 3, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 96.

An act concerning invalid pensions.

SECS. I. II. [Private.]

32. SEC. III. Any pension granted by this act, or any other act, hereafter to be passed, to any officer, soldier, or marine, who served in the revolutionary war, shall cease and be discontinued, in case the individual, to whom the same may be granted, hath availed himself, or shall hereafter avail himself, of the provisions of an act, passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war." [Supra, 26.]

33. SEC. IV. All persons entitled to pensions, in conformity with the provision of the act, entitled "An act to provide for persons disabled by known wounds during the revolutionary war," passed April the eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and six, and also, the fourth section of an act, entitled "An act concerning invalid pensioners," passed the twenty-fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, may be placed on the pension list by the secretary of war, without reporting the same to congress.

ACT of May 1, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 58.

34. SEC. I. No person who now is, or hereafter may be, placed on the pension list of the United States, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, [Supra, 26.] shall, after the payment of that part of the pension which became due on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, continue to receive the pension granted by the said act, until he shall have exhibited to some court of record, in the county, city, or borough, in which he resides, a schedule, subscribed by him, containing his whole estate and income, (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) and shall have (before the said court, or some one of the judges thereof) taken and subscribed, and produced to the said court, the following oath or affirmation, to wit. I, A B, do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I was a resident citizen of the

(ACT of May 15th, 1820.)

United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed: Nor until such person shall have delivered, or caused to be delivered, to the secretary of war, a copy of the aforesaid schedule and oath or affirmation, certified by the clerk of the court to which the said schedule was delivered, together with the opinion of the said court, also certified by their clerk, of the value of the property contained in the said schedule: Provided, That, in every case in which the pensioner may be insane, or incapable of taking an oath, the court may receive the said schedule without the aforesaid oath or affirmation, from the committee, or other person authorized to take care of such person.

SEC. II. The original schedule and oath or affirmation shall be filed in the clerk's office, of the court to which the schedule and oath or affirmation aforesaid shall be exhibited: and any person who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be thereof convicted, shall suffer as for wilful and corrupt perjury.

SEC. I. On the receipt of the copy of the schedule and oath, or affirmation aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the secretary of the war department, to cause to be struck from the list of pensioners under the said act, the name of such person, in case the said person shall not, in his opinion, be in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country: Provided, That every person, who shall have been placed on the pension list in consequence of disability, from known wounds received in the revolutionary war, and who shall have relinquished such pension in order to avail themselves of the benefit of the provisions of the act, to which this is an amendment, who, by virtue of this section, may be stricken from the pension list, shall be forthwith restored to the pension so relinquished.

ACT of May 15, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 114.

35. SEC. I. The act, entitled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war," passed on the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six; and limited, as in said act declared, to the term of six years, and afterwards revived and continued in force by an act, entitled "An [act] to revive and continue in force' An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds re

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