proper assistant treasurer or designated depositary, except in the case of any pensioner in which the law authorizes the pension to be paid to some person other than the pensioner, or in which the Secretary of the Interior may consider a voucher necessary for the protection of the government. Such checks shall be transmitted by mail to the payee thereof at his last known address. Delivery of Checks Prohibited in Certain Cases-Checks to be Returned and Canceled. That postmasters, delivery clerks, letter carriers, and all other postal employees are prohibited from delivering any such mail to any person whomsoever, if the addressee has died or removed, or in the case of a widow believed by the postal employee intrusted with the delivery of such mail to have remarried; and the postmaster in every such case shall forthwith return such mail with a statement of the reasons for so doing, and if because of death or remarriage, the date thereof, if known. Checks returned as herein provided on account of the death or remarriage of the pensioner shall be canceled. § 4. Forging Indorsement, Uttering, etc.-Penalty. That whoever shall forge the indorsement of the person to whose order any pension check shall be drawn, or whoever with the knowledge that such indorsement is forged shall utter such check, or whoever, by falsely personating such person, shall receive from any person, firm, corporation, or officer or employee of the United States the whole or any portion of the amount represented by such check, shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than five years or both. § 6. Payment to Inmates of National Home D. V. S. not Affected.That nothing in this act shall be construed as amending or repealing that portion of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1883 (Statutes at Large, volume 22, page 322) concerning the payment of pensions due inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Secretary of War and Secretary of Navy to Issue Certificates of Discharge, etc., in True Name-Exception.-That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to issue certificates of discharge or orders of acceptance of resignation, upon application and proof of identity, in the true name. of such persons as enlisted or served under assumed names, while minors or otherwise, in the Army or Navy during any war between. the United States and any other nation or people and were honorably discharged therefrom. Applications for said certificates of discharge or amended orders of resignation may be made by or on behalf of persons entitled to them, but no such certificate or order shall be issued where a name was assumed to cover a crime or to avoid its consequence. TABLES OF RATES. TABLE I.—For simple total (a disability equivalent to the anchylosis of a wrist) provided by section 4695, Revised Statutes, United States. ARMY. Lieutenant-colonel and all officers of higher rank. Per month. .$30 00 25.00 Major, surgeon, and paymaster.... 20 00 Captain, and all officers of higher rank, commander, lieutenant commanding, and master commanding, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer ranking with commander by law, lieutenant-colonel, and all of higher rank in Marine Corps...... 30 00 Lieutenant, passed assistant surgeon, surgeon, paymaster and chief engineer ranking with lieutenant by law, and major in Marine Corps..... Master (now lieutenant), professor of mathematics, assistant surgeon, assistant paymaster, and chaplain, and captain in Marine Corps First lieutenant in Marine Corps ... First assistant engineer, ensign, and pilot, and second lieutenant All enlisted men, except warrant officers 25 00 20 00° 17 00 15 00 10 00 8 00 1 Seventy-two dollars from June 17, 1878, only where the rate was $50, under act of June 18, 1874, and granted to date prior to June 16, 1880. by act March 4, 1890, which increases rate to $72. First grade proper is $50, amended TABLE III.-Rates fixed by the Commissioner of Pensions for certain disabilities not specified by law. Severe deafness of one ear and slight of the other.... 8.00 8.00 12.00 17.00 6.00 10.00 6 00 10 00 15 00 20 00 22 00 Total deafness of one ear and severe of the other... 25.00 Deafness of both ears existing in a degree nearly total... 27 00 Loss of palm of hand and all the fingers, the thumb remaining.. 17 00 Loss of thumb, index, middle, and ring fingers 17.00 Loss of all the fingers, thumb and palm remaining. 16 00 Loss of great toe . Loss of any other toe and metatarsal Loss of any other toe Chopart's amputation of foot, with good results. Pirogoff's modification of Syme's. Small varicocele.... Well-marked varicocele 6 00 6 00 2.00 14 00 17 00 2.00 4. 00 Inguinal hernia, which passes through the external ring. 10 00 Per month. Inguinal hernia, which does not pass through the external ring. $ 6 00 Double inguinal hernia, each of which passes through the ex 14 00 ternal ring.. Double inguinal hernia, one of which passes through the external ring and other does not..... 12 00 Double inguinal hernia, neither of which passes through the external ring 8.00 Femoral hernia 10 00 Section 4699, Revised Statutes, provides that the rate of $18 per month may be proportionately divided for any degree of disability established for which section 4695 makes no provision. The act of August 27, 1888, provides a $30 rate for total deafness and authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to grant such proportion thereof in cases of partial deafness as he may deem equitable. Act January 15, 1903, increases rate for total deafness to $40. Rates on partial degrees not affected. The act of March 2, 1895, provides that "all pensioners now on the rolls, who are pensioned at less than six dollars per month, for any degree of pensionable disability, shall have their pensions increased to six dollars per month; and that, hereafter, whenever any applicant for pension would, under existing rates, be entitled to less than six dollars. for any single disability or several combined disabilities such pensioner shall be rated at not less than six dollars per month: Provided, also, that the provisions hereof shall not be held to cover any pensionable period prior to the passage of this act, nor authorize a rerating of any claim for any part of such period, nor prevent the allowance of lower rates than six dollars per month, according to the existing practice in the Pension Office in pending cases covering any pensionable period prior to the passage of this act.' TABLE IV.-Miscellaneous rates. INVALID. Indian wars: Acts July 27, 1892, June 27, 1902, and May 30, 1908.... Mexican War: Act Jan. 27, 1887 .... Acts Jan. 5, 1893, and Apr. 23, 1900, certain survivors.. Act June 27, 1890, in its original form, and also as Per month. $8 00 8.00 12.00 12 00 12 00 15 00 20 00 .....6 00-12 00 |