The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-10-08

amount found due shall be delivered to the
payee in person or sent to his bona fide
post office address residence or place of
BUSINESS"
Stanton.-An attorney is clearly entitled
to the statutory fee of so for services as
attorney of record III securing the restOra-
ton of act of 1890 pension under the joint
resolution of July /, 1902.
T. S. M.-There are branches of the Ma
tional Home near Dayton. Ohio TAD
Dress National Military Home, Ohio,
another at Togus, Maine; another at
Hampton, Va. address. National Soldiers
Home, Va; another ut Marion, Ind. lad
dress, National Military Home. ind); an
other at Milwaukee, Wis. address, Ma
tional Home, Wis.,; another at Danville,
ILL., address, Soldiers Home, Quincy Sta,
HI; another at Leavenworth, Kan. TAD
dress, National Military Home, Kans.)
another at Johnson City, Tenn. address,
National Soldiers Home, TENN; another
at Hot Springs, SO. Oak, another at Santa
Monica, Cal. address, Soldiers Home, Los
Angeles Co., CALI. The rules governing
admission are similar in all branches of the
Home.
4. 3. r., Augusta. Me.-The Commits
sioncr of Pensions issues periodically n
handbook Of the pension laws, which can
be obtained free for the asking. The fol
lowing is the act of March 3, 1901:
he it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled. that
section 41OS of the laws of the United
States governing the granting Of army and
navy pensions be and the same is, amended
to read as follows:
The remarriage of any widow, depend
ent mother, or dependent sister entitled to
pension shall not bar her right to such
pension to the date Of her remarriage,
whether an application therefor was filed
before or after such marriage; but on the
rcmarriage of any widow, dependent moth
er, or dependent sister having n pension.
such pension shall cease: Provided, how
ever, that any widow who was the lawful
wife of any officer or enlisted man in the
Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the
United States, during the period of his
service in any war, and whose name was
placed or shall hereafter be placed on the
pension roll because of her husband $
death as the result Of wound or injury re-
ceived or disease contracted in such mil
itary or naval service, and whose name
has been or shall hereafter be dropped
from said pension roll by reason OF her
marriage to another person who has since
died or shall hereafter die, or from whom
she has been heretofore or shall be-. here
after divorced, upon her own application
and without fault on her part. and if she
IS without means of support other than her
daily labor as defined by the Acts of June
u, 1880, and May 9. 1900, shall be en-
titled 10 have her name again placed on
the pension roll at the rate now provided
for widows by the acts of July H. 1862.
March 3, 1873, and March 10 1856. such
pension TO commence from the date of the
hlius OF her application in the Pension Blu
reau after the approval of this Act: And
provided further. That where such widow
Is already in receipt of n pension from the
United States she shall not be entitled to
restoration under this act: And provided
further, That where the pension Of said
widow on her second or subsequent mar
riage has accrued to n helpless or idiotic
child. Or child or children under the age
Of IL years, she shall not he entitled TO
restoration under this act unless said helm
less or idiotic child, or child or children
under III years of age, be then a member
or members of her family and cared for by
her, and upon the restoration of said
widow the payment of pension to said child
or children shall cease
No claim agent or other person
shall be entitled to receive any compensa-
ton for services in making application for
pension under this Act"
The act Of Feb. %, 1903, amending the
above act, is as follows, the new parts be-
ing shown by italic letters:
"Sec. 4708. The remarriage of any
widow, dependent mother, or dependent
! sister entitled to pension shall not bar her