Pay To Patriots

[CONTINÜED.] HE soldiers and widows of all soldiers who served in auy war prior to the late civil war are all pensioned. All Mexican war veterans, offlcers and enlisted men, includins marines, miliüa and volunteers, of the military and naval services of the United States, are, by act oí Jamiary 29, 1887, placed upon the pension-roll oí the United States. They must have been duly enlisted, actually served sixty days with the United States Army or Navy in Mexico, or on the coasts or frontier theroof, or en route thereto, in the war with that nation, and were honorably discharged. Widows of such veterans can obtain pensions if they have mot remarried. Where any person has obtained a land warrant on account of Mexican war service, such land grant shall bc considered prima facie evidence of his service and honorable discharge. These provisions shall not apply to any person while under the political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the constitutiou of the United States. Pensions are given the family and legal heirs of sundry discharged United States soldiers and certain of the Missouri militia murdered by guerrillas at Centralia, Mo., in 1864. Veterans who lost one foot and one hand, or are totally and permanently disabled in both, can receive a pension for each disability, at tull rating. The widow, children or heirs of a man who aided in any way the late rebellion are pensioned, if the man afterward voluntarily enlisted in the Union army and was disabled in the line of duty. (This does not apply to sailors.) Every volunteer who joined the United States forces in the Territory of Montana during the war with the Nez Perce lndians, and who was wounded or disabled in such service, is entitled to all benelits of the United States Pension laws. And the widows or legal heirs of any such volunteer killed in such war, in the line of duty, can receive all pension allowance. If an insane in valid pensioner have a wife or children dependent upon him, the Commissioner of Pensions can pay the pension to the wife, or if there be 110 wife, to the guardián of the children. Invalid pensioners while imprisoned for crime must have their pensions paid to their wives or the guardians of their children, if the Commissioner so direct. AH pensions to widows, which have been or may be granted them in consequence of deathoccurnngfrom a cause which originated in the United States service since the4thdayof Marcht 1861, cnmmence from the date of death of the husband. A guardián fraudulently converting the pension of a ward is liable to a fine of Í2,OOO and imprisonment at hard labor for five years. ToObtain ax Increase.- The pensioner must file a deelaration setting forth the ground upon which he makes the claim. Such declaration may be taken before any offleer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, ercept where a new or different disability is alleged, then the claim must be exeeuted before an offleer of a Court of Record. Renewal of Pensions .- Such applications must be made to the Commissioner bv a declaration exeeuted as in original claims, setting forth that the cause for which pension was allowed still continúes. Unclaimeo Pensions.- Evidence must be filed saüsfactorily accounting for the failure to claim such pensions; and in invalid claims, medical evidence showing the continuance of the disability. In the administration of the pension laws no distinction is made between brothers and sisters ol the half-blood and those of the whole blood. Open andnntorious adulterous cohabitation of a widow pensioner terminates her pension from the commencement of such ctnduct. Notes.- No person in the service shall draw a pension as an invalid and the pay of his rank, U7ili the disability bo such as to occasion lus employment in a lower grade. Any pensioner may surrender his certiiicate and receive in lieuthereof a certifícate for any other pension to which he would have been entitled. Failure to claim a pension for three years aíter granting causes the pensioner's name to be stricken from the lists, subject to the right of restoration on new application, or if he be dead, by the widovyor minor children, they f urnishing satisf actory evidence accounting lor the failure to claim the original grant. No pension money due, or to become due, to any pensioner is or can be hable to attachment, levy or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, whether the same remains with thePenBion Office or offlcers, or is in course of transmission tothe pensioner entitled thereto. Pension money must inure wholly to the beneüt of the pensioner. On the issue of a certifícate of pension or bounty-land warrant or any allowance, the head of the departmentnotifles the claimwit and the agent or attorney that such has been issued, and the dato and amount thereof Every person who, under existing law, ia entitled to an artificial liinb orapparatus, can receive a new limb or apparatus at the expiration of every fcve years. He also is furnished, by tho Secretary of War, with free transportation to and frora his home to the place whcre hemust go to obtain the artificial appliances; or, ií unable to use an artificial limb, or if he prefers so to do, he may receive the money value thereof every five years, at the following rates : For artificial legs, $75 ; arms, 50; f eet, 50; apparatus ior resection, $50. Those pensioners who require trugses and like apphanccs must apply for the same to the Surgeon-üeucral, U. 8. A., Washington, Any person who shall receive as a pledge, tnortgage, sale, assignment or transier oí any right, claim or interest in any pension, or pension certifícate, or who shall hold the same as collateral security for any deM OP - , " promlso (upon any p-et-'xt wluitfvcr), or Bhall refuse to sur.oj.dur suid eertilicate upon the demanda oí a U. S. Pension agent, or the pensioner, such person shall befined 51U0 and the costs of the prosecution. All applioants for invalid pensions shall bepi-esumed to have had no disabilityat the time of enhstment, but such presumption may be rebutted. The payments of pensions to Indians iu the Indian Territory must be made in standard silver coin, at least once a year. Offlcers of the Missouri State or Provisional Militia. wounded or injured while co-operating with the U. S. f orces in the Civil war, and their widows or children, are entitled to all benefits of the ü. S. Pension laws. But no such pensions shall commence prior to March 3, 1873. If a soldier, while prisoner of war, joined the Confedérate army, even if he deserted therefrom and rejoined the Union forces before firing a shot, ho can not, nor can nis heirs, receive a pension. A pensioner whose name has been dropped from the rolls can apply for its restoration thereto at any time, no matter forwhatreason his name was so dropped. No offlcer.clerk or employé of any United States Department can act as counsel, attorney or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States ; nor aid in prosecuting such claim while in the departmentor for two years after leaving it. Pensioners under Special Act of Congrens are entitled to the benefits and subject to the limitations of the general pension laws. buch pensioners can not receive in addition to the special act pension, any pension under the general lavv, or arrears of pension, unless the special act expressly states that Buch are to be granted. The invalid claimant should carefully state his Company and Regiment, names of commanding offlcers, and dates of his enlistment and discharge. (In Navy cases the vessel, etc., etc., on which the man Berved should be given.) The nature and locality of the wound or injury, the time, place where, and circumstances under which it was received and the duty in which the tfian was then engaged. Every minute detail should be given. If the claim be f or disability f rom disease, state when the disease flrst appeared, the place where he was when it appeared and the duty he was then engaged upon. He should detail the circumstances of exposure to the causes which, in his opinión, produced the disease. He should give the names, numbers and localities of all hospitals in which he was treated and the dates of his admission thereto, as correctly as he may be able. He will state if he was in the military or naval service of the United States prior to or'afterthe term of service in which his disability originated. He will give his exact post-offlce address, and the street and number of his residence il in a city. Coürts, Maoistrates, Witnesses, Testimos y, Etc. - Swear to your declarations and claims if possible before a Court of Record and have placed on them the seal of said court. When magistrates and others administer oaths their authority to do so must be verified by the Court of Record. Any one acting as deputy of an offlcer of a Court of Record and administering an oath to a witness must sign his own name to the certifícate of the fact and not that of the person for whom he is acting. In prosecution of a claim the witnessea should be, if possible, otlter pcrsont than near relatives of the claimant, and every witness must state whether he or she has any interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution ol the claim in which he testifies, and give his post-offlce address. Wittioss should give a detailed statement ol f arts kuown to them and how theyobtained sudi knowledge. The ofBcer taking the depositions must oertify to the credibility of the witnesses and must state why he considers them entitled to belief, he must certij,' that the contents of their depositions was made known to them, and that he has no interest, direct or indirect, in the claim. Alterations or interlineatkms or erasures mustbe acrounted for by certificate of the oath udministering official, that they were made with knowledge and svvorn consent ol the amant. Surgeons or physicians makinff affldavits in support of claims should detail the nature of the disability, dates of treatment and death, symptoms and opinions as to connaction between disease, or injury and disease, and it should be in the handwriting of the party signing it. The official certiflcntes of judicial offlcers usinga seal, or of commissioned offlcers ol the army or navy in actual service, will be accepted without affldavit; but all other witnesses must testify under oath. If an attorney does not prosecute a case Riven him in one year from receiving it the Pension Office must inform the claimant. Witti the blanks and directions obtainable f rom the United States Departments nearly every claimant, of any class, can make out his claim and prosecute the same himself. But where, through necessity orpreference, an attorney is employed, one of standing and high repute should be selected. An agent or attorney can only collect ten dollars for prosecuting a pension claim (or twenty-five dollars where the claimant voluntarily gives that amount, and a contract to that effect is signed and approved by the Commissioner of Pensions), and no agent has a right to demund any fee before the case is settled. Higher charges than these areillegal and tHose making them are sukject to heavy penaltics. No agent or other person is entitled to any compensation for services in making application for any arrears of pension; no agent or attorney can assign a claim to another agent or attorney without the written consent of the claimant. When an agent or attorney is disbarred a claimant may appoint a new attorney and no iee is due the formerone. If an attorney called on for new evidence in a case does not furnish it in ninety days, the claimant can tile the same through another and the first f orfeits all fees. A fee will not be allowed to a guardián who prosecutes the claim of his ward, nor to a firm of attorneys of which the guardián is a member. [CONTINUED.]