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 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 83, 84. 1865. 499 competent jurisdiction in said district, be punished by a {zine of not less than two hundred and nfty dollars, and not more than one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment in the district prison for a term not less than six months nor more than one year. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any officer of the district jail Omccrs, or cf the District of Columbia, or any guard thereof, or any attaché or em- ?‘PPl°{?“ “* *h° . . . . . . . jail ta ing fees ployee connected with said _]a1l, who shall demand or directly or indirectly for information receive, any compensation, fee, reward, or gratuity for any information respecting prisgiven in respect to any prisoner conlined therein, or awaiting trial upon g;?j,';;};,“£°t’ bail, or for any service, assistance, or iniiuence rendered, given, or exerted, islied. with any view, intent, or purpose of having such person thus charged or held for trial, or held in [on] bail to await trial, taken, offered, or used either as a volunteer or as a substitute for any other in the military or naval service, or who shall corruptly receive, for any act done by virtue of his office or employment, any fee, compensation, reward, or gratuity, shall be deemed guilty of a misdeanor [misdemeanor] [and] shall on conviction thereof in any district court of competent jurisdiction, be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and not more than one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment in the district prison for a term not less than three months nor more than one year. Approved, March 3, 1865. CHAP. LXXXIV. —An Act supplementary to the several Acts relating to Pensions. March 3, 1865. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no invalid pensioner now Invalid penor hereafter in the service of the United States shall be entitled to draw §°¤°” H0? *° a pension for any period of time during which he is or shall be entitled to WE; Eggggfig the full pay or salary which an able-bodied person discharging like duties full salary, &c. to the government is allowed by law. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That acting assistant or contract sur- Acting assistgeons disabled by any wound received or disease contracted while actually §‘,l‘ffi‘;?’,;,?;g°°“S· performing the duties of assistant surgeons or acting assistant surgeons, gm; Mimiés to with any military forces in the field or in transitu, shall be entitled to the I>€¤Si°¤S· benetits of the pension laws in the same manner as if they had actually been mustered into the service with the rank of " assistant surgeon," and the widows, minor children, or the dependents of acting assistant surgeons dying while performing the duty aforesaid, shall in like manner be entitled to the same benefits of the pension laws as if the deceased had been actually mustered into the service as assistant surgeons. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all persons now by law entitled _ Persons losto a less pension than hereafter specified who shall have lost one foot and lgghgfg gig {sand one hand in the military service of the United States, and in the line of month, his [their] duty, shall be entitled to twenty dollars per month. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any officer or other person Widow or named in the first section of an act entitled "An act to grant pensions," €h,1ld’g* °*` °§;'· approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, has died since ,g'¥ngn,$gr;gn_°" the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shall here- sion, &c. after die by reason of any wound received or disease contracted while in 1862. @-166, the service of the United States, and in the line of duty, his widow, or §i}O,_Xi,_p_566_ if there be no widow, or in case of her death or marriage, without pay- ment to her of any part of the pension hereinafter mentioned, his child or children, under sixteen years of age, shall be entitled to receive the same pension as the husband or father would have been entitled to under said act, had he been totally disabled, to commence from the death of the husband or father, and to continue to the widow during her widowhood, or to the child or children until they severally attain to the age of sixteen years, and no longer: Provided, That when such pension has been, or shall Prcvmo. hereafter be, paid to the widow, such child or children shall only be en-