NO. PAGE. 20. Proof of facts to substantiate the foregoing declaration... 69 81 22. Certificate of officer....... 85 23. Application for pension by widow of deceased soldier.. 86 24. Proof of marriage by copy of private record.... 91 25. Proof of marriage by transcript from family Bible.. 93 95 29. Application for pension by mother of deceased soldier.... 26. Proof of marriage by witnesses.... 27. Application by guardian of minor children of deceased soldier for a pension.... 28. Proof to substantiate the foregoing.... 98 101 35. Oath of identity in prize cases.. 32. Proof necessary to substantiate the foregoing application.... of her husband...... 34. Proof to substantiate the preceding application... 31. Application for a pension by guardian of minor sister of deceased 30. Proof of relationship, &c., and of dependence on deceased son for 103 105 . 107 . 109 111 113 127 36. Power of attorney to collect prize money. 130 37. Oath of identity of administrator. 132 38. Oath of allegiance.... 156 39. Certificate of clerk of court.. 157 40. Form of obtaining payment of invalid pension. 158 41. Power of attorney to collect pension..... 160 42. Oath of attorney.... 161 43. Form to collect widow's pension... 163 166 45. Certificate of court as to guardianship.. 168 46. Oath of identity for a widow, child, children, administrator or executor of deceased pensioner.. 170 47. Application for transfer of pension to another agency.. 173 48. Application for a new certificate.. 174 49. Oath of allegiance of claim agents.. 199 GENERAL INDEX. ACTS of Congress : relating to volunteers, 8, 246. calling out militia, 8, 13. raising pay of privates, 8. concerning soldiers' letters, 9. granting compensation to garrison of Sumter, 9. "enlistment of sailors, 10. to promote efficiency of engineer corps, 10, 14. to provide for allotment certificates among volunteers, 11. 66 "appointment of sutlers, 11. payment of troops in Western Department, 11. relating to medical cadets, 11. altering manner of paying line officers, 11. to grant pensions, 11, 248. to define pay and emoluments, &c., 11, 12. concerning allotments of pay by prisoners, 13. to increase brigadier-generals and major-generals, 14. providing brevet rank, 14. respecting powers of attorney, 141. making appropriation for bounties, 246. granting bounty, 246, 255. granting homesteads, 255. ADMINISTRATION, letters of, 73. AGENTS, pension, list of, 224. ALLOTMENT, certificates, 13. APPLICATION for arrears of pay and bounty, 65–72. order of payment of, 70, 71. Payment of, 149–153. ARTIFICIAL limbs, 15, 24. form of application for, 26. ASSIGNMENT, or pledge of pension, invalid, 22, 162. oath of allegiance of, 199. license of, 200. fees of, 200-203, 252. AUTHENTICATION of papers, 72. BIENNIAL examination of pensioners, 162, 179, 190. who are to receive, 8, 14, 16, 42, 43, 71, 247, 255. 66 "children "brothers and sisters to obtain, 47, 62. to whom application for, to be made, 48. persons dying after discharge, 66. declaration by soldier discharged before serving two years, 66. to officers and men in navy for destroying enemy's ships, 125. to volunteers reënlisting, 321-323, 325-328. CERTIFICATE of court as to guardianship, 168. of county clerk, 55, 157. pension, application for new, 173. CHILDREN, declaration of, to obtain bounty and arrears, 45, 56. CIRCULARS, of Fourth Auditor, 134. of Surgeon-General, 28. of Alpheus Fobes, pension agent at New York, 175. of Pension Office to pensioners, 178. CLOTHING lost, 330. COMMISSION, service without, 108. CONSUL'S certificate to foreign papers, 66. Martial, how ordered, &c., 294. DESCRIPTIVE Lists, 316–319. DESERTERS, 228, 238, 285, 332-338. DESERTION bars claim for pension, 86. DISCHARGED soldiers, 73. DISCHARGE of soldier, 229, 230. must be filed with application for bounty, 67. applications for, 312-316. duplicate, 320. DISLOYALTY bars claims on United States, 71. DIVORCE bars claim for pension, 78. DRUNKENNESS, proof of habitual, 114. EQUIPAGE, claims for, lost in service, 29-32. EXTRA duty pay abolished, 15. FATHER, declaration of, to obtain bounty and arrears, 45, 58. FORAGE, commutation for, not allowed, 18. FOREIGN language, papers in, must be translated, 66. papers must be certified by American Consul, 66. FORMS used in drawing pensions, list of, 195-197. FRAUD in concealing disease on enlistment invalidates claim for bounty, 68. to reënlisting volunteers, 346. GENERAL orders of War Department, 305-348. Certificate of, 168. HOMESTEADS, an act to secure, &c., 255. INCOME tax on officers' pay, 18. of Second Auditor respecting claims for arrears of pay and bounty, 70–76. of Fourth Auditor respecting claims for arrears of naval pay and prize to pension agents, 182. of Pension Office to pensioners, 177. of Pension Office concerning applications for pensions, 260–279. LEAVES of absence, 305-307. LEGITIMACY of son not necessary to entitle mother to pension, 114. MARRIAGE, proof of, 51-54. second, how it affects claim for pension, 87. proof of, in pension cases, 89-97. MOTHER, declaration of, to obtain bounty and arrears, 46, 60, 68. pension of, ceases on marriage after son's death, 104. MUSTER rolls, what to embrace, 239. new regulation concerning, 346. NAVAL: arrears of pay, 120, 121. pensions, 121-123. OATH of allegiance, 156. of identity, 170. OFFICERS, entitled to pensions, 249-251. at what rate, 80, 81. resignation of, 225. deceased officers, 226. inventories of effects of, 227. |