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 388 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 247. 1864. Pension claims unless prosecuted to a successful issue within three years from the passage be pms0c,md’ issue within Eve years from the date of such iihug, shall be admitted within what time. without satisfactory record evidence from the War Department to establish the same ; and in every case in which a claim for pension shall have been tiled for more than three years after the discharge or decease of the party on whose account the claim is made, the pension, if allowed, shall commence from the date of filing the last paper in said case by the party prosecuting the same. _Pensicn to _ Sec. 7. And Be it further enacted, That on the remarriage of any widow receiving e. pension, such pension shall terminate, and shell not be renewed marriage, sw. should she again become a widow. Eizglinillg b Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That examining snrgeons, duly
 * r§;${€i¤t%eg’°€§ of this act, and no claim hereafter filed, not thus prosecuted to a successful
 * &§h.ef,;‘,,{ak;ai>po1nted bylthe commissioner of pensions, may be required by him,

special examine- from time to time, as he shall deem for the interests of the government, ` five districts, and such examinations shall have precedence over previous examinations, whether special or biennial. But. when injustice is alleged to have been done by any examination so ordered, the commissioner of Examining pensions may, at his discretion, select a board of three duly appointed `°°“'d· examining surgeons, who shall meet at a place to be designated by him, and shall review such cases as may be ordered before them on appeal from any special examination as a.foresaid, and the decision of such board shall be Hnal on the question so submitted thereto. The compensation of PW- all such surgeons shall not exceed that which has been customarily allowed in such cases, and shall be paid out of any appropriations made for the payment of pensions, in the same manner as the ordinary fees of appointed surgeons are or may be authorized to be paid. Volunteers, me Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That those persons, not enlisted Wiiggédtisigled soldiers in the army, who volunteered for the time being to serve with have bmegts of any regularly organized military or naval force of the United States, or pensioulnws. where persons otherwise volunteered and rendered service in any engagement with rebels or Indians since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall, if they have been disabled in consequence of wounds received in battle, in such temporary service, be entitled to the same benefits of the pension laws as those who have been regularly Their widows mustered into the United States service. And the widows, or other and d¢p¤¤d¤¤¤· dependc-mts,of any such persons as may have been killed in the temporary service aforesaid shall be entitled to pensions in the same manner as they would have been had such persons been regularly mustered: Provided, Claims tops_ That no claim under this section shall be valid unless presented and €;:;;“f:£rS"“h‘“ prosecuted to a successful issue within three years from and after )passage of this act. All such claims shall be adjudicated under such special rules and regulations as the commissioner of pensions may prescribe, most etlectually to guard against fraud. nny person Sec. 10. And be it ficrther enacted, That if any person entitled to fssjffgggnziu an invalid pension under the provisions of the act granting pensions, ,,,6 dying wmfc approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, has died, or shell ¤ppli9¤¢i0¤,i¤ hereafter die, while an application for such pension is pending, and having $,°QQg;;’g&l;Sm a widow or dependent relative entitled no receive u pension by reason of mceivdit. ’ his service and death, as provided in said act, then the pension to such Vg6g3h- fgé widow or other person shall commence from the date at which the ' 'P`dccedentfs invalid pension would have commenced had he survived, Post, p. 500.- subject to the conditions of this act, end the act to which this is _ amendatory. El‘h*t°'l Sec. 11. And be it further enacted That all enlisted soldiers in the soldiers, disabled,. ’ . . to have imag; of army who shall have become disabled in the service, whether they shall 1><>¤1Si¤¤1=¤W¤» have been regularly mustered in or not, shall be entitled to the same
 * §‘;:*;l;fP°”‘ to make special examinations of pensioners on the rolls of their respec-
 * `;°$:?J°t m"` benefits of the pension laws as those who have been regularly must/ered