UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE
Containing the Laws and Current Resolutions Enacted During the
Second Session of the Eighty-fifth Congress of the United States of America
1958
Volume 72, Part 1
Public Laws and Reorganization Plan

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Public Law 85-425

AN ACT
To increase the monthly rates of pension payable to widows and former widows of deceased veterans of the Spanish-American War, Civil War, Indian War, and Mexican War, and provide pensions to widows of veterans who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Veterans’ Benefits Act of 1957 (Public Law 85-56) is amended:
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(3) Section 432 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:

“(e) For the purpose of this section, and section 433, the term ‘veteran’ includes a person who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, and the term ‘active, military or naval service’ includes active service in such forces.”
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(9) Immediately above section 411, insert the following:

“CONFEDERATE FORCES VETERANS
“SEC. 410. The Administrator shall pay to each person who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War a monthly pension in the same amounts and subject to the same conditions as would have been applicable to such persons <134> under the laws in effect on December 31, 1957, if his service in such forces had been service in the military or naval service of the United States.”
SEC. 2. This Act shall be effective from the first day of the second calendar month following its enactment.
Approved May 23, 1958.