Volume 39
Public Law 64–194
Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.
Approved June 30, 1916
Statutory text
An Act
Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes, namely:
For Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows,
Invalid, etc., pensions.
minor children, and 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, $158,000,000: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy
Proviso.
Navy pensions.
pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: Provided further,
Accounts.
That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately: And provided further, That all allowances
Medal of honor pensioners.
made, or hereafter to be made, to medal of honor pensioners under the Act of Congress approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be paid from the moneys appropriated for the payment of invalid and other pensions, and section three of the said Act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is
Ante, p. 54, amended.
amended accordingly.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services
Examining surgeons.
Fees, etc.
rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $65,000.
Approved, June 30, 1916.