Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Appealed Pension and Bounty-land Claims, Volume 5

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - Bounties, Military

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Page 262 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law : Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln.
Page 322 - Corps, whether regularly mustered or not, disabled by reason of any wound or injury received, or disease contracted, while in the service of the United States and in the line of duty.
Page 123 - ... any gratuity, or any share of or interest in any claim from any claimant against the United States, with intent to aid or assist, or in consideration of having aided or assisted, in the prosecution of such claim, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Page 195 - Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with a person other than the offender's husband or wife.
Page 383 - Provided, That in case a minor child is insane, idiotic, or otherwise permanently helpless the pension shall continue during the life of said child, or during the period of such disability, and this proviso shall apply to all pensions heretofore granted or hereafter to be granted under this or any former statute...
Page 185 - The construction given to a statute by those charged with the duty of executing it is always entitled to the most respectful consideration, and ought not to be overruled without cogent reasons. . . . The officers concerned are usually able men, and masters of the subject. Not unfrequently they are the draftsmen of the laws they are afterwards called upon to interpret.
Page 16 - Sec. 2. That all persons who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion and who have been honorably discharged therefrom...
Page 47 - In case of her death, without payment to her of any part of the pension hereinafter mentioned, 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, to continue to the widow during her widowhood...
Page 123 - States, shall act as an agent or attorney for prosecuting any claim against the United States...
Page 383 - ... to be the result of his Army service, be placed on the pension roll from the date of the application therefor under this act, at the...

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