Committee Papers of the Committee on Pensions, 1880–1946

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Committee Papers of the Committee on Pensions, 1880–1946

Committee Papers of the Committee on Pensions, 1880–1946

1880-1946

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/562102

This series contains minutes, petitions and memorials, bills, and correspondence of the Committee on Pensions. The committee's minutes cover 1935-1946. Most of the petitions and memorials are from two major petition drives: in the 48th Congress (1883-1885) when the committee received the results of a petition drive supporting the Mexican Pension Bill (HR48A-H22.1) and the 62nd Congress (1911-1913) when it received many petitions supporting passage of a bill providing pensions for men and women over the age of 60 (HR62A-H23.1). The remaining committee papers contain documents relating to various claims, copies of bills and resolutions, receipts for case files loaned to the committee by the Veterans Administration, compilations of State laws relating to veterans, and small collections of correspondence. The bulk of the committee's records are the bill files from the 58th-79th Congresses (1903-1946). The bill files usually contain the following: the petition submitted by the claimant, the bill proposing his relief, soldier's or widow's affidavits, correspondence with the Bureau of Pensions, medical reports and other notarized affidavits, and charge cards indicating records loaned to the committee from the Pension Bureau.

148 linear feet

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