mar 3, 1883 - Signs Act (22 Stat 453) providing increased pension benefits to any pensioner who has been "otherwise so disabled as to be incapacitated for performing any manual labor." The law did not specify that the incapacity arises from military service nor did it define the meaning of "performing manual labor." This generated an increased demand for pension benefits and controversial bureaucratic decisions
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mar 3, 1883
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