FORTY—SE COND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 234. 1873. 567 of the army, including regulars, volunteers, and militia, or any officer enlisted men of in the navy or marine corps, or any enlisted man, however employed, in *l‘° °"¥'Y» ””5' the military or naval service of the United States, or in its marine corps, g§,Ql{,1;1Ql?,;°rps’ whether regularly mustered or not, disabled by reason of any wound or injuries received injury received, or disease contracted, while in the service of the United 2;¤dg$“?° :8** States and in the line of duty; any master sewing on a gunboat, or any iing of (igty gncg pilot, engineer, sailor, or other person not regularly mustered, serving Merch 4, }861» upon any gunboat or war-vessel of the of the United States, disabled by any fgd sQ°Q$;',§,‘;§h` wound or injury received, or otherwise incapacitated, while in the line of shall upon pmét; duty, for procuring his subsistence by manual labor; any person not an &°··l’° Pl*%°°d 9** enlisted soldier in the army, serving for the time being as a member of the gQ$,gg;,g:,1lQ`Q°,ild militia of any State under orders of an officer of the United States, or who mceivcpenisicns volunteered for the time being to serve with any regularly organized mili- M °“"*'*‘“ ""*°‘ tary or naval force of the United States, or who otherwise volunteered and rendered service in any engagement with rebels or Indians, disabled in consequence of wounds or injury received in the line of duty in such temporary service; any acting assistant or contract surgeon, disabled by any wound or injury received or disease contracted in the line of duty while actually performing the duties of assistant surgeon or acting assistant surgeon with any military force in the field or in transitu or in hospital, or any provost-marshal, deputy provost-marshal or enrolling officer disabled by reason of any wound or injury received in the discharge of his duty, to procure a subsistence by manual labor, has been since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shall hereafter be impaired by reason of such disability, he shall, upon making due proof of the fact, according to such forms and regulations as are or may be provided by and in pursuance of law, be placed upon the list of invalid peusioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive, for a total disability or a permanent specific disability, such pension as is hereinafter provided in such cases, and for an inferior disability, except in cases of permanent specific disability for which the rate of pension is expressly provided, an amount proportionate to that provided for total disability, to commence as hereinafter provided, and to continue during the existence of the disability : Provided, That no claim of a State militiaman, or non-enlisted person, on Certain claims account of disability from wounds or injury received in battle with rebels ;`;L¥$E;$’b;‘;0l;: or Indians, while temporarily rendering service, shall be valid unless prose- Juyy 4, 18-,-,i_ cuted to a. successful issue prior to the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-four: And prwided further, That no person shall be entitled Ifepsons not to a pension by reason of wounds or injury received or disease contracted ‘}gx_i§1¥f£gS’ in the service of the United States subsequent to the twenty-seventh day &c,_ gincq fiu1y of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, unless the person who was §Zé1868» ¤¤l¢¤¤. wounded or contracted the disease was in the line of duty; and, if in the ` military service, was at the time actually in the Held, or on the march, or at some post, fort, or garrison, or en route by direction of competent authority to some post, fort, or garrison; or, if in the naval service, was at the time borne on the books of some ship or other vessel of the United States, at sea or in harbor, actually in commission, or was at some naval station, or on his way, by direction of competent authority, to the United States, or to some other vessel, or naval station, or hospital. Sec. 2. That the pension for total disability shall be as follows, namely: _ Rates oipeq- For lieutenant-colonel and all officers of higher rank in the military ml;;°r_:tE’;‘£°d;: service and in the marine corps, and for captain and all officers of higher ,,.,;‘é,,d,, O; rank, commander, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, respectively glfifixgsé ppg ogm ranking with commander by law, lieutenant commanding and master ’ ‘ commanding, in the naval service, thirty dollars per month; for major in the military service and in the marine corps, and lieutenant, surgeon. paymaster, and chief engineer, respectively ranking with lieutenant by law, and passed assistant surgeon in the naval service, twenty-fiye dollars per month; for captain in the military SBFVICB and in the marine corps,
