On the Enlisting, Discharging and Pensioning of Soldiers

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A. Waldie, 1840 - Military pensions - 210 pages
 

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Page 46 - I do also make Oath, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors ; and that I will, as in Duty bound, honestly and faithfully defend Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in Person, Crown, and Dignity, against all Enemies ; and will observe and obey all Orders of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of the Generals and Officers set over me. So help me GOD.
Page xxx - ... while in the line of his duty in public service, he shall be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pay and under such regulations as may be directed by the President of the United States for the time being...
Page xxxii - I should presume, however, that every officer in full commission, and not on furlough, must be considered in the line of his duty, although, at the moment, no particular or active employment is devolved upon him. The same of a soldier who is kept in pay ; for it is presupposed of both the one and the other that they are at all times prepared for duty ; and it is surely of indispensable obligation upon them to keep themselves detached from other pursuits, so as to be ready, at a moment, to answer...
Page xliii - ... a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death...
Page xxxi - That, if any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, in the corps composing the peace-establishment, shall be disabled by wounds or otherwise while in the line of his duty in public service...
Page 27 - Impaired or inadequate efficiency of one or both of the inferior extremities on account of varicose veins, fractures, malformation (flat feet, etc.), lameness, contraction, unequal length, bunions, overlying or supernumerary toes, etc., etc.
Page 11 - I demand a levy of 300,000 men — but I must have grown men — boys serve only to fill the hospitals, and encumber the road-side.
Page 12 - Without regarding the danger, however, young volunteers never enlist so readily as at the beginning of a new war ; and though they have scarce any chance of preferment, they figure to themselves, in their youthful fancies, a thousand occasions of acquiring honour and distinction which never occur.
Page xlii - That every officer, seaman, or marine, disabled in the line of his duty, shall be entitled to receive for life, or during his disability, a pension from the United States according to the nature and degree of his disability, not exceeding one half his monthly pay.
Page 46 - Any officer or soldier who shall begin, excite, cause, or join in, any mutiny or sedition...

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