The weekly loyal Georgian., 1867-08-24
CHAPTER CCXXXV.

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CHAPTER CCXXXV.
An act Increasing the Pensions of
WIdoaos and Orphans, and for other
purposes.
Be 1t enacted By tic Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the
United States Of america IN CON- gress
assembled That the provisions of the
pension laws are hereby extended to
and made to include provost marshals,
deputy provost marshals, and enroll
ing officers, who have been killed or
wounded in the discharge of their
duties; and for the purpose of de-
termining the amount of pension to
which such persons and their depend
ents shall be entitled, provost mar
shalS shall be ranked as captains,
deputy provost marshaIs as first lieu
tenants, and enrolling officers as
second lieutenants.
Sec. 2. Ind be II further enacted.
That the pensions to widows of de
ceased soldiers and sailors, having
children by such deceased soldiers or
sailors, be increased at the rate of two
dollars per month for each child oil
such soldier or sailor under the age of
sixteen years. And in all cases in
which there shall be more than one
child of any deceased soldier or
sailer leaving no widow, or where his
widow has died or married again, or
where she has been deprived of her
pension under the provisions of sec
ton eleven of an act entitled " An act
supplementary to the several acts re
latlng to PENSIONS" approved June
sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,
the pension granted to such children
under sixteen years of aac by existing
laws shall be increased to the same
amount per month that would be al.
lowed under the foregoing provisions
to the widow if living and entitled to
a pension ProUided, That iu no case
shall more than one pension be allowed
to the same person.
Sec 3. Ind be 1t further enacted.
That the provisions of an act entitled
" An act to grant pensions" approved
July fourteen. eighteen hundred and
sIxty-two, and of the acts supplemeli-
tary thereto and amcndatory thereof,
are hereby, so far as applicable, eX-
tended to the pensions under previous
laws, except revolutionary pensioners
Sec. 4. Ind be u further enacted,
That if any person during the pcnden
cy of his application for an invalid
pension, and after the completion of
the proof showing his right thereto
has died, or shall hereafter die, but
not in either case by reason of wound
received, or disease contracted in the
service of the United States and in the
line of duty, his widow, or if he left
no widow, or in the event of her death
or marriage, his relatives in the same
order in which th[e]y would have
received Il pension, if they had
been thereuntO entitled under existing
laws on account of the services and
death in the line of duty Of snch per
son, shall have the right to demand
and receive the accrued pension to
which hc would have been entitled
had the certificate issued hcfurc his
death and in all cases where such
person so entitled to All invalid pen
sion has died, or shall hereafter die,
under circumstances hcrcnbelorc
mentioned, whether by reason Of Il
wound received or disease contracted
in the service of the United States, and
i'll the line of duty or otherwise, with
out leaving widow or such RELATIVES
then such accrued pension shall he
paid to tho executor or administrator
of such person in like manner and
effect as if such pension were so much
assets belonging to the estate OF the
deceased at the time of his des tn.
Sec. ). And be Il further endctcd,
That the repeal by the act entitled
AN act supplementary to the sevc-
raj acts relating to PENSIONS, approx,
ed June sixth, eighteen hundred and
slxty-six, of parts of certain acts men
toned in the first section of said ACT,
shall not work forfeiture of any
rights accrued unIer or granted by
such parts of such acts so repealed
but such rights shall be recognized
and allowed in the same manner and
to all intents and purposes as if said
act had never passed, except that the
invalid pensioner shall be entitled to
draw from and after the taking effect
of said act the increased pension there
bv granted in lieu of that granted by
such parts of such acts so repealed.
Sec. 6. And be II further enacted,
That nothing in tho fourth section of
an act entitled "An act supplement
tarv to the several acts relating to
pensions" approved March third,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, or in
any other supplementary or amenaa-
tory act relating to pensions, shall be
50 construed so as to impair the right
Of a widow whose claim for pension
was pending at the date Of her re-
marriage, to the pension to which she
would otherwise be entitled, had her
deceased husband left DO minor child
or children under the age of sixteen
years.
Approved, July %, 1866.
CHAPTER CCXXXEI.
An Act authorizing The Construction
of a jail an and for the District Of