Public Law 54–2

That the following sums be,

Pensions appropriations.

and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes, namely:

For army and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor

Invalid etc., pensions.

children, dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, one hundred and forty million dollars: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid for

Provisos.

Navy pensions.

navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: Provided further, That the amount paid to each of the several classes of pensioners shall

Accounts.

be accounted for separately.

For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services rendered

Examining surgeons.

Fees, etc.

within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seven hundred thousand dollars. And each member of each examining board shall, as now authorized by law, receive the sum of two dollars for the examination of each applicant whenever five or a less number shall be examined on any one day, and one dollar for the examination of each additional applicant on such day: Provided, That if twenty or more

Proviso.

Examinations.

applicants appear on one day, no fewer than twenty shall, if practicable, be examined on said day, and that if fewer examinations be then made, twenty or more having appeared, then there shall be paid for the first examinations made on the next examination day the fee of one dollar only until twenty examinations shall have been made: Provided further, That no fee shall be paid to any member of an examining board

No fee unless service rendered.

unless personally present and assisting in the examination of applicant: Provided, That the report of such examining surgeons shall specifically

Rating.

state the rating which in their judgment the applicant is entitled to.

For salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, at four

Agent’s salaries.

thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars.

For clerk hire, four hundred and thirty thousand dollars: Provided,

Clerk hire.

Proviso.

Apportionment.

That the amount of clerk hire for each agency shall be apportioned as nearly as practicable in proportion to the number of pensioners paid at each agency, and the salaries paid shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.

For fuel, two hundred and fifty dollars.

Fuel.

For lights, five hundred dollars.

Lights.

For stationery and other necessary expenses, thirty-five

Stationery, etc.

thousand dollars.

For rents, twenty-six thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.

Rents.