The Arkansas banner., 1847-10-18

that period, as will moro fully appear by re- ference to the rsnof hereto annexed.
 Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before
 AN ACT
 GFanting half pay to widows. and orphans
 where their husbands and fathers haVp died
 Of W0nRds neeiVed iR the military service
 sf lhs Unlied states inteTtaiA aases, and fer
 stheR paFpases
 Re iG enacted bv ake Semafe asd Hessse Of Repvrsmtatiseseftke Uniied Si. tss of yame- vica in Csaersss asstmblsd, That wien any olseef, noa-cammissioeed officer. musieiaa. as private of she milisia, inelsAiaR rangess. sea lemeibles, and volumseeTs, Asall have died while tn the service of the UniteA States, since the 20,h of April, 1918, or who shall have died in consequence Ot wound recciv- cd whilst tn the services, since the day afore- said, and shall have left 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 io which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death or receiving such wound, for and dering u . term of five years; and in case ol the death or marriage of said widow before the expir- aiion of said five years, the half pay for the remainder oi the time shall go h the [childrcn of thel said tecedent: Prorided, That half pay aforesaid shall be the half monthly pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the infantry of the regular army, and no more: Procided, also, That no greater sum shall he allowed tO the widow, or the child, or children, of any off, cer than the half pay of lieutenan, colonel.
 SECTION ?. fad be u further enacted, That ifany officer. .non-commissioned officer, musician, soldier, Indian spy, mariner or ma- rine, whose service during the revolutionary war was such as is specified in act passed the seventh day of June, 1892, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief Of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, !" have died since the 4th of March, 1891, and before the date of said act, the a. mount ar pension which would have accrued from the 4lh day of March, iS4l, to the tune of his dcsth, and become payable lo him by virtue 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 press rbed in the act hereby amend ed.
 Sac. }. .7nd De Il fuiher enacted, That if any person who served in the war of the re- volution. in the manner specified in the act passed the 7th of June, 1892, entitled, ''An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution" have died, leaving a 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 she may remain unmarried, the annuity or pension which nigh. have been allowed to her husband, by virtue of the act afore- said, if living at the me it was passed
 Sec. 1. fad be il furutrr enaeted, That any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any money or half pay grah.ed by this act, shal! be utterly void and of no eject; each person acting for, and in behalf of, any one entitled so 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 6le, before a warrant shall be delivered to him, that he has no interes, in said money by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer, and that he does moi know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever,
 Sec. ,. find be Il further enacted. That 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 4, lS36.