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$50 a month $72 per month artificial limbs Bureau of Pensions Chairman and gentlemen Civil War soldiers Civil War veterans Civil War widows Colonel CHURCH commander in chief COMMITTEE ON INVALID comrades disability incurred ELLIOTT entitled estimated February 11 Foreign Wars former widow Grand Army House bill House of Representatives INCREASE OF PENSIONS increase the pensions indorsed INVALID PENSIONS JACOB ORKEN John Reese June 27 legislative committee less than ninety line of duty lost limbs LOZIER Maimed Soldiers maimed veterans MANLOVE Marine Corps Missouri National Encampment national president naval service organization paid a pension Pension Committee pension roll person a majority person who served receive a pension REPUBLIC Past Commander RICE W Richard N ROBSION roll at $72 SAILORS Senate bill served less Seventy-first Congress Spanish War Veterans STATEMENT Stobbs to-day total cost totally disabled Union Veterans United States Code United States Maimed Veterans of Foreign
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Page 4 - That this section shall not apply to an alien who volunteered or who was drafted into or who served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States...
Page 18 - Budget advises that the proposed legislation is not in conflict with the financial program of the President.
Page 4 - APPROVED MARCH 4, 1917. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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 Chinese Boxer rebellion, or the Philippine insurrection, between April 21, 1898, and July 4, 1902...
Page 16 - by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act...
Page 3 - ... or claim allowed or due such pensioner or claimant under this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every such offense, be fined not exceeding $500, or be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 4 - ... duty, such widow having remarried, either once or more than once after the death of the soldier, sailor or marine, if It be shown that such subsequent or successive marriage...
Page 4 - ... if it be shown that such subsequent or successive marriage has or have been dissolved, either by the death of the husband or husbands or by divorce without fault on the part of the wife.
Page 5 - ... or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 8. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved July 1, 1902.
Page 3 - Pension allowed, and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section, or who shall wrongfully withhold from a pensioner or claimant the whole or any part of a pension or claim allowed or due such pensioner or claimant under this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every...
Page 3 - ... which sum shall be payable only upon the order of the Commissioner of Pensions, by the pension agent making payment of the pension allowed...