The Bureau of Pensions: Its History, Activities and Organization |
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... served in certain specified wars , and to their widows and children , without reference to disabilities incurred or diseases contracted in the ser- vice and regardless of the cause of death of the service man . Ser- vice pensions are ...
... served in certain specified wars , and to their widows and children , without reference to disabilities incurred or diseases contracted in the ser- vice and regardless of the cause of death of the service man . Ser- vice pensions are ...
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... served in the Spanish War without such limitations . Widows of persons who served in the Civil War , the War with Spain , or the Philippine Insurrection are to have not less than $ 25 per month . Revised Statutes , Section 4702 ( act of ...
... served in the Spanish War without such limitations . Widows of persons who served in the Civil War , the War with Spain , or the Philippine Insurrection are to have not less than $ 25 per month . Revised Statutes , Section 4702 ( act of ...
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... served in the Revolutionary War for a specified period and was in need of assistance from his country for support should be pensioned . The rate was $ 20 per month for officers and $ 8 per month for enlisted men , and the pension was ...
... served in the Revolutionary War for a specified period and was in need of assistance from his country for support should be pensioned . The rate was $ 20 per month for officers and $ 8 per month for enlisted men , and the pension was ...
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... served for at least fourteen days or in any engagement at $ 8 per month . A small number of surviving Revo- lutionary widows shared in the increased pensions to $ 12 per month for all widows on the pension roll , granted by the act of ...
... served for at least fourteen days or in any engagement at $ 8 per month . A small number of surviving Revo- lutionary widows shared in the increased pensions to $ 12 per month for all widows on the pension roll , granted by the act of ...
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... served sixty days or more in that war and were honorably dis- charged or who received personal mention by Congress for specific service in that war , and to the surviving widows of such persons . On March 9 , 1878 ( 20 Stat . L. , 27 ) ...
... served sixty days or more in that war and were honorably dis- charged or who received personal mention by Congress for specific service in that war , and to the surviving widows of such persons . On March 9 , 1878 ( 20 Stat . L. , 27 ) ...
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$8 per month 1,800 Assistant Chief 17 Stat 26 Stat 35 Stat 42 Stat act of April act of June act of March adjudication administration annuities April 24 Army and Navy Assistant Chief Clerk attorneys bounty-land Boxer rebellion Bureau of Pensions Chief of Division Chief of Section China relief expedition claimants Commissioner of Pensions Cong employees entitled examining surgeons February 9 fees Files Section Govt half-pay pensions Indian wars Interior Invalid pension July July 14 July 27 June 27 June 30 line of duty March 19 naval service Navy pension fund paid payment of pensions pension acts Pension Bureau pension claims pension laws Pension office pension rates pension system pensionable status persons Philippine Insurrection R. S. Sec Secretary Secretary of War Section Assistant Chief Section Chief Serial service pension sions Spain special acts special examiners survivors tion total disability United Washington Widows and minors
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Page 85 - An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes," approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (38 U.
Page 20 - ... without means of support other than her daily labor, and an actual net income not exceeding $250 per year...
Page 48 - They permit the directing personnel to see at a glance the organization and personnel at their disposition. They establish definitely the line of administrative authority and enable each employee to know his place in the system. They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine...
Page vii - ... entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to billions annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than half a million persons are required to do the work imposed by law upon the executive branch of the government....
Page viii - This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism. Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations of all of its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the Government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time has the attempt...
Page 7 - the age of 62 years and over shall be considered a permanent specific disability within the meaning of the pension laws.
Page vii - ... are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to nearly $1,000,000,000 annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than 400,000 persons are required to do the work imposed...
Page 87 - Congress has adopted no uniform plan of appropriation for the several services and that the latter employ no uniform plan in respect to the recording and reporting of their receipts and expenditures, it is impossible to present data of this character according to any standard scheme of presentation. In the case of some services the administrative reports contain tables showing financial conditions and operations of the service in considerable detail; in other financial data are almost wholly lacking.
Page 21 - APPROVED MARCH 4, 1917. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the widow of any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days or more in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the War with Spain, the Chinese Boxer rebellion, or the Philippine insurrection, between April 21, 1898, and July 4, 1902...
Page 6 - ... shall have lost an arm at or above the elbow or a leg at or above the knee, or been totally disabled in the same...