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AN ACT

 Granting half pay te widows, and orphans

 where their husbands and fathers hayt died

 of wounds rseeirrd in the military 1rYer

 of the United SialrS iR certain eases. and for

 other purposes,

 Be IL enactsd bg tae Senate aud Hamse Of Representatives. fthe Uniied States of .9mc- rieq ia Congress assembied, That when any officer, non-commissioned officer. musician, or private of the militia, inciuding rangers, sea fencibles, and volunteers, shall have died while in the service of the United States since tho 20th of April, ISIS, or who shall have died in consequence of wound reeeiv- ed whilst in the services, since the day aiore- said. and shall have Jeff a widow, or, if no widow. 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 or receiving such wound, for and during the term of five wears, and in case of the death or marriage or said widow before the exrdr- ation Of said five years, the half pay for sne remainder of the time llgo to the children of thel said decedent: Prorided, That half pay aforesaid shali be ihe half monthly pay of the officers, non~commissioned officers. musicians, and privates ol the infantry ol ihe regular army, and no more: Prorided, also, That no greater sum shall be allowed to the widow, or the child. or children, of any off, cer than the half pay of lieutenant colonel.

 SEcrioN ? Ind be II further enacted, That ifany officer, ,non-commissioned officer, musician, soldier, Indian spy, mariner or ma- rine, whose service during the revolutionary war was snchas Is specified in act passed the seventh day of June, 1892, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief ol certain surviving officers and soldiers ot the revolution" have died since the 4th of March, 1891, and before the date of sad act, the a. mount or pension which would have accrued from the 4lh day of March, lSi to ihe tune of his death. and become peyaole to him by virine of that act. if he had survived the pas sage thereof. shall be paid to his widow; and If he left no willow, to his children, in the manner pres, ribed in the act hereby amend ed

 SEC 3. fad bc h faihsr eadcfed, That if any person who served in the war of the re- FptuktOHs III sttC Si''tbNN tH t>V "tt passed the 7th of June. lS32, entitled, s'An act supplementary 10 the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revoTution,n have died, leaving widow

 hose marriage took place before the expir- a;ion of the last period of his service. such widow shall be entitled to receive during the time siIe may remain unmarried, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband, by virtue oi the act aiore- said, if living at the t.me Il was passed.

 Sec. 1. fad be II further enacted, That any pledge, mortgage. sale, assignments or transfer of any right, claim, ar interest in any money or half pay grahted by this act, shal! be utterly void and of no effect; each person actiHg for, and m behalf of, any one entitled to money under this act, shall take and sub scribe an oath, to be administered by the proper accounting officer, and retained by him and put on file, before a warrant shall he delivered To him, that he has no interest in said money by any pictge, mortgage, sale. assignment or transfer, and that he does not ] know or belIeve that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever. Sec. j. .4nd bs II farther endcied. Thai the Secretary of War shall adopt such forms of evidence, in applications under this act. as the President of the United States shall prescribe.

 Approved, July 1, 1886