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OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

IN

APPEALED

PENSION AND RETIREMENT

CLAIMS

ALSO

A TABLE OF CASES REPORTED, CITED, DISTINGUISHED
MODIFIED, AND OVERRULED AND OF STATUTES
CITED AND CONSTRUED

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PREFACE

The jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior over pension and retirement matters terminated upon the issuance of the Executive order of July 21, 1930, pursuant to the act of July 3, 1930, transferring the Pension Bureau, the Veterans' Bureau, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to the Administration of Veterans' Affairs. The office of Commissioner of Pensions was originally created under the jurisdiction of the War Department by the act of March 2, 1832 (4 Stat. 622). It was transferred to the Department of the Interior upon the creation of that department by the act of March 3, 1849 (9 Stat. 395). This volume and the preceding volumes of this series contain the reported decisions in appealed pension, bounty-land, and retirement claims from 1887 down to the date of the recent transfer of jurisdiction over these activities.

Volumes 1 to 20 were confined to decisions relating to pensions and bountyland claims. With the enactment of the civil service retirement law the administration of that act devolved upon the Department of the Interior, and the reported retirement decisions have since been included in this publication. The decisions and opinions comprising the current volume were prepared in the office of the solicitor for the department and submitted to the Assistant Secretary for his action. They were carefully selected from the mass of decisions handed down with the intention that they might be found useful as an accurate guide in the construction and application of the various statutory provisions relating to these classes of claims.

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