The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 271
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UNION AUTHORITIES. 271
landsman, pilot, or other person in the Navy or Marine Corps, has been, since the
fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shall hereafter be, disabled
by reason of any wound received or disease contracted while in the service of the
United States, and in the line of duty, he shall, upon making due proof of the fact
according to such forms and regulations as are or may be provided by or in pursu-
ance of law, be placed upon the list of invalid pensions of the United States, and be
entitled to receive, for the highest rate of disability, such pension as is hereinafter
provided in such cases, and for an inferior disability an amount proportionate to the
highest disability, to commence as hereinafter provided, and continue during the
existence of such disability. The pension for a total disability for officers, non-
commissioned officers, musicians, and privates employed in the military service of the
United States, whether regulars, volunteers, or militia, and in the marine corps,
shall be as follows, viz: Lieutenant-colonel, and all officers of a higher rank, thirty
dollars per month; major, twenty-five dollars per month; captain, twenty dollars
per month; first lieutenant, seventeen dollars per month; second lieutenant, fifteen
dollars per month; and non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, eight
dollars per month. The pension for total disability for officers, warrant, or petty
officers, and others employed in the naval service of the United States, shall be as
follows, viz: Captain, commander, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, respect-
ively, ranking with commander by law, lieutenant commanding, and master com-
manding, thirty dollars per month; lieutenant, surgeon, paymaster, and chief
engineer, respectively, ranking with lieutenant by law, and passed assistant surgeon,
twenty-five dollars per month; professor of mathematics, master, assistant surgeon,
assistant paymaster and chaplain, twenty dollars per month; first assistant engi-
neers and pilots, fifteen dollars per month; passed midshipman, midshipman,
captain's and paymaster's clerk, second and third assistant engineer, master's mte,
and all warrant officers, ten dollars per month; all petty officers, and all other per-
sons before named employed in the naval service, eight dollars per month; and all
commissioned officers of either service, shall receive such and only such pension as
is herein provided for the rank in which they hold commissions.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any officer or other person named in the
first section of this act has died since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, or shall hereafter die, by reason of any wound received or disease con-
tracted while in the service of the United States, and in the line of duty, his widow,
or, if there be no widow, his child or children under sixteen years of age, shall be
entitled to receive the same pension as the husband or father would have been
entitled to had he been totally disabled, to commence from the death of the husband
or father, and to continue to the widow during her widowhood, or to the child or
children until they severally attain the age of sixteen years and no longer.
SEc. 3. And be it further enacted, That where any officer or other person named in
the first section of this act shall have died subsequently to the fourth day of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shall hereafter die, by reason of any wound
received or disease contracted while in the service of the United States, and in the
line of duty, and has not left or shall not leave a widow nor legitimate child, but
has left or shall leave a mother who was dependent upon him for support, in whole
or in part, the mother shall be entitled to receive the same pension as such officer or
other person would have been entitled to had he been totally disabled; which
pension shall commence from the death of the officer or other person dying as afore-
said: Provided, however, That if such mother shall herself be in receipt of a pension
as a widow, in virtue of the provisions of the second section of this act, in that case
no pension or allowance shall be granted to her on account of her son, unless she
gives up the other pension or allowance: And provided, further, That the pension
given to a mother on account of her son shall terminate on her re-marriage: And
provided, further, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to entitle the mother
of an officer or other person dying, as aforesaid, to more than one pension at the
same time under the provisions of this act.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That where any officer or other person named in
the first section of this act shall have died subsequently to the fourth day of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shall hereafter die, by reason of any wound
received or disease contracted while in the service of the United States and in the
line of duty, and has not left or shall not leave a widow, nor legitimate child, nor
mother, but has left or may leave an orphan sister or sisters, under sixteen years of
age, who were dependent upon *him for support, in whole or in part, such sister or
sisters shall be entitled to receive the same pension as such officer or other person
would have been entitled to had he been totally disabled; which pension to said
orphan shall commence from the death of the officer or other person dying, as afore-
said, and shall continue to the said orphans until they severally arrive at the age of
sixteen years, and no longer: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall be so
construed as to entitle said orphans to more than one pension at the same time under
the provisions of this act: And provided, further, That no moneys shall be paid to the
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