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 568 FORTY-—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 234. 1873. {Rates of pen- chaplain in the army and provost marshal, professor of mathematics,
 * £‘;§§t;°*'·gc master, assistant surgeon, assistant paymaster, and chaplain in the naval

’service, twenty dollars per month; for iirst lieutenant in the military service and in the marine corps, acting assistant or contract surgeon, and deputy provostqnarslml, seventeen dollars per month; for second lieuten— ant in the military service and in the marine corps, first assistant engineer, ensxgn, and pilot in the naval service, and enrolling officer, fifteen dollars per month, for cadet-midshipman, passed midshipman, midshipngipélclergsg og adngiraasralnd paymsmrgland of oth;;, oféllcezs glogimanding s, s n an 1 assis en meer, mas s a, a warrant officers in the naval service, ten dollars per month; and for all enlisted men whose rank or office is not mentioned in this section, eight dollars per month; and the masters, pilots, engineers, sailors, and crews upon the vunboats and war-vessels shall be entitled to receive the pen- . sion alloyvbd herein to those of like rank in the naval service; and every Pension to be commissioned officer of the army, navy, or marine corps shall receive l;';:;':; lxlzxt such and only such pensioiras is herein provided for the rank he held at in the disability, on account of which he may be entitled to a pension; and any commissioned or presidential appointment, regularly issued to Rank, how de- such person, shall be taken to determine his rank from and after the date, Proviso. rank: Provzded, lhat a vacancy existed m the rank thereby conferred; that the person commissioned was not so disabled for military duty; and that he did not wilful1y neglect or refuse to be mustered. gms of ,,8,,- Sec. 3. That for the period commencinv July fourth, eighteen hundred ¤i;>£;h:<>¤L?¤¤·;¤;_i¤ and sixty-four, and ending June third. eighteen hundred and seyenty-two, gms Spémf, those persons entitled to a less pension than hereinafter mentioned, who disabled by lem shall have lost both feet in the military or naval service and in the line of °*` b°“‘ f€°_°· °f duty, shall be entitled to a pension of twenty dollars per month ; for the both hands, 01. _ . . night of both same period those persons who, under like circumstances, shall have lost eyes; both hands or the sight of both eyes, shall be entitled to a pension of tiventy-tive dollars per month; and- for the period commencing March third,eightecn hundred and sixty-hve, and ending June third eighteen hundred and seventy-two, those persons who under like circumstances, orons hand shall have lost one hand and one foot, shall be entitled to a pension of Wd °“° Y°°*9 twenty dollars per month; and for the period commencing June sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and ending dune third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, those persons who under like circumstances shall have 6,. Om, hm; 0, lost one hand or one foot. shall be entitled to a pension of fifteen dollars per one foot; month; and for the period commencing June sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and ending June third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, those persons entitled  a less pension than hereinafter mentioned, who by reason of injury received or d18821S0 contracted in the military or naval service of the United States and in the line of duty, shall have been permanently mth hands and and totally disabled in both hands, or who shall have lost the sivht of one gis; of both eye, the other having been previously lost, or who shall have baden other- ) ‘ wise so totally and permanently disabled as to render them utterly helpless, or so nearly so as to require regular personal aid and attendance of another peréson, shall be entitled to a pension of twenty-t'ive dollars per month; an for the same period those who under like circumstances shall both feet, or in have been totally and permanently disabled in both feet, or in one hand we lmnd md and one foot, or otherwise so disabled as to be incapacitated for the perone foot, or oth- f, www disabled_ ormance of any manual labor, but not so much so as to require regular personal aid and attention, shall be entitled to a pension of twenty dollars per month; and for the same period all persons vvho under like circumstances shall have been totally and permanently disabled in one hand, or one foot, or otherwise so disabled as to render their inability to perform
 * ¤_;m·y_ gw_ the time be received the injury, or contracted the disease which resulted
 * °'"““°d· as given in the body of the commission or appointment conferring said