Total... 5 288 55 1,66019 10,063 9,365 320,665 330,030 60 20 7 312 9 2,030| 219 29,279 29,498 26 365 267 4 60 5308 62 1,972 28 12,093 9,584 349,944 359,528 PENSION STATISTICS. PENSIONERS ON ROLLS JUNE 30, 1893. General Law. Condition. Men. Officers. Act of June 27, 1890, 1890. 55,194 306,298 99,709 406,007 74,815,486 85 79,646,146 37 489,725 89,131,968 44 537,944 106,493,890 19 1891. 1892. 1893. Total. 363,799 156,486 536,821 139,339 676,160 198,345 224,047 703,242 172,826 876,068 119,361 121,630 759,706 206,306| 966,012 12,034,695 1,357,921| In the total number of applications filed in 1893 are included 65,002 invalids and 20,914 widows, etc., under the Act of June 27, 1890; 4,505 survivors and 4,514 widows of the Indian wars, and 930 Army nurses. In the number of claims allowed in 1893 are included 62,291 invalids, and 36,917 widows, etc., under the Act of June 27, 1890; 2,599 survivors and 1,347 widows of the Indian wars, and 286 Army nurses. In the number of pensioners on the rolls, under the heads of "Invalids" and "WidOws, etc.' are respectively included male and female pensioners of every class. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, there were 115,221 claims rejected by the Board of Review. PENSIONS ALLOWED AND INCREASED DURING 1893. 118,548,959 71 141,086,948 84 158,155,342 51 1,576,503,544 42 Total.... [121,630 $13,286,620 93 56,705 $5,768,690 382,004|$249,994 94 Annual average value of each pension, $135 10; under the general law, $157 65; under the act of June 27, 1890, $113 75. The estimates for the year 1895 are as follows: For pensions, $160,000,000; surgeons' fees, $2,000,000; agents' salaries, $72,000; clerk hire at the eighteen agencies, $500,000; fuel at agencies, $750; lights at agencies, $750; rentals of agencies, $23,070; contingent expenses, $35,000; total, $162,631,570. PENSION OFFICE PROCEDURE. PENSION LEGISLATION-The present pension system has been built up between 1862 and 1890. In that time sixteen acts have been passed, fifteen of which may be classified as an extension of the original Pension Law to fit the necessities of Union Veterans. The sixteenth is the great Dependent Pension Law. Most of the pensions range between $2 and $30 a month for privates, though $72 a month is granted to those who have lost both hands, both feet and both eyes. METHOD OF APPLICATION-The first step toward securing a pension under the law of June 27, 1890, generally known as the Dependent Pension Law, is to apply to the Commissioner of Pensions, setting forth the military or naval service of the applicant, and the nature and character of his disabilities. The applicant must be identified by two witnesses. When the application is filed in the Pension Office he is informed of the fact, and is then ordered to go before a Pension Board of Surgeons for physical examination. If a disability is found sufficient to entitle him to a pension, he gets one on the report of the Board, or on the report of the Board his application is rejected. Widows are required to make application in the same form. With the application they must furnish proof of marriage to the soldier or sailor by a verified transcript from a church or other public record, if one exists, or by affidavits of the clergyman or magistrate who performed the ceremony, or by affldavits of two witnesses of the marriage, or by the record of the baptism of children. There must be evidence of witnesses that the widow has not married since her husband's death and that she depends on her daily labor for support. If she or her husband had been previously married, the date of death or divorce of former husband or wife must be cited. The widow must also prove the death of the soldier, and, if enlisted under an assumed name, must prove his identity. CHILDREN AND PARENTS-Children under sixteen and dependent parents are entitled to pensions under the law, but must show by the evidence of comrades or officers that the soldier's or sailor's death was due to his services. RECONSIDERATION-On the evidence of two physicians that disability exists, an application rejected by a Board of Pension Surgeons may be reconsidered. In this case the applicant is ordered to go before another board of surgeons. Procedure under the original Pension Law is similar to that outlined above, though the requirements for identification are more rigid. RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES. PREPARED BY U. S. WEATHER BUREAU. Highest recorded temperature in State....******* Lowest recorded temperature: in State. Nevada, Winnemucca... 8.9 48.6 104/a28 N'w-H'mps're, M'nchest'r 42.1 45.9 96a11 b Temperature above zero. |