Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Appealed Pension and Bounty-land Claims, Volume 14U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 |
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$12 per month act of June act of March action appealed adjudication affidavit alleged allowed appellee application April April 23 Assistant Secretary M. W. attorney Bureau action cause ceremony certificate claim for pension claim was rejected claimant cohabitation Commissioner of Pensions common-law marriage Company contended contract court death December December 18 December 21 decision declaration decree Department desertion disease divorce enlistment entitled established evidence fact February February 20 follows ground held honorably discharged husband and wife January 29 July July 27 June 27 line of duty lived March 19 marriage married ment minor mother muster necessitous circumstances never November November 19 one-half opinion parties payment pensioner's person presumption prior proof question reason received record rendered Revised Statutes rule Secretary M. W. Miller September shown soldier special examination subsequent surgeon testified testimony therein tion United valid War Department widow witnesses
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Page 86 - ... employed, and if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly and distinctly, the sense of the framers of the instrument, there is no occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation...
Page 262 - Unless such former husband or wife was absent, and not known to such person to be living for the space of five successive years immediately preceding such subsequent marriage, or was generally reputed and was believed by such person to be dead at the time such subsequent marriage was contracted; in either of which cases the subsequent marriage is valid until its nullity is adjudged by a competent tribunal.
Page 328 - Provided, That in case a minor child is insane, idiotic, or otherwise permanently helpless, the pension shall continue during the life of said child, or during the period of such disability...
Page 489 - That if any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days or more in the army or navy of the United States during the late war of the rebellion, and who was honorably discharged...
Page 441 - ... shall be deemed or adjudged to be void, nor shall the validity thereof be in any way affected, on account of any want of jurisdiction or authority in such...
Page 378 - ... any bounty or gratuity other than from the United States in excess of that to which he would have been entitled if he had continued to serve faithfully until honorably discharged under any contract of service previously entered into by him, either in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, during the war of the rebellion.
Page 437 - A person shown not to have been heard of for seven years by those (if any) who, if he had been alive, would naturally have heard of him, is presumed to be dead, unless the circumstances of the case are such as to account for his not being heard of without assuming his death...
Page 256 - August one thousand eight hundred and sixty two to serve three years or during the war is hereby Discharged from the service of the United States...
Page 389 - That all persons who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion...
Page 282 - Mexico, or on the coasts or frontier thereof or en route thereto, in the war with that nation, or were actually engaged in a battle in said war, and were honorably discharged, and to such other officers and soldiers and sailors as may have been personally named in any resolution of Congress for any specific service in said war...