Act of 4 August 1886

Date: 4 Aug 1886 [unknown]
Location: United States

[U.S. Congress, U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. 24 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1887), 220, 'An act to amend the pension laws by increasing the pensions of soldiers and sailors who have lost an arm or leg in the service', chap. 899; image copy, Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/llsalvol.llsal_024/?sp=255 : accessed 14 November 2023).]

[See Laws relating to the U.S. Civil War]

'CHAP. 899.--An act to amend the pension laws by increasing the pensions of soldiers and sailors who have lost an arm or leg in the service.'

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act all persons on the pension rolls, and all persons hereafter granted a pension, who, while in the military or naval service of the United States and in line of duty, shall have lost one hand or one foot, or been totally disabled in the same, shall receive a pension of thirty dollars a month; that all persons now on the pension rolls, and all persons hereafter granted a pension, who in like manner shall have lost either an arm at or above the elbow or a leg at or above the knee, or been totally disabled in the same, shall receive a pension of thirty-six dollars per month; and that all persons now on the pension rolls, and all persons, hereafter granted a pension who in like manner shall have lost either an arm at the shoulder joint or a leg at the hip-joint, or so near the joint as to prevent the use of an artifical limb, shall receive a pension at the rate of forty-five dollars per month: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to repeal section forty-six hundred and ninety-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or to change the rate of eighteen dollars per month therein mentioned to be proportionately divided for any degree of disability established for which section forty-six hundred and ninety-five makes no provision.

'Approved, August 4, 1886.'