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PENSIONS
For Widows Increased By
AShbTOOk Bill
Which Has The Approval OF
The Committee


man William A. Ashbrook to increase
widows pensions which has been ap-
proved by the committee on Invalid
Pensions, and which will no doubt be-
come a law:
A BILL
To amend an Act entitled 'An Act to
increase the pension of widows, min
or children, and SO forth, of deceased
soldiers and sailors of the late Civil
War, the War with Mexico, the vari-
Gus Indian wars, and so forth and to
grant pension to certain widows OF
the deceased soldiers and sailors of
the late Civil War; approved April
nineteenth, nineteen hundred and
eight.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
of this Act the rate of pension for a
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 ser
vice in the Civil War, shall be $40 per
month, and the rate of pension for a
widow who has reached or shall hereaf-
ter reach the age OF seventy years
shall be 500 per month; and nothing
herein shall be constructed to affect
the existing allowance of So per month
for each child under the age of six
teen years and for each helpless child;
and all Acts or parts of Acts incon-
sistent with the provisions of this Act
are hereby repealed: Provided, howev-
er, that this act shall not be so con
strued as to reduce any pension under
any Act, public or private.
Sec. 2. That any widow whose name
was placed or shall hereafter be placed
on the pension roll, under any exist
ing law, 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
hereafter divorced upon her own appli-
cation and without fault on her part,
shall be entitled to have her name
again placed OH the pension roll at the
rate allowed by the law or laws under
which she was formerly pensioned un-
less she be entitled to a greater rate
of pension under the provisions of
| section one of this act such pension
| to commence from the date of filing
| her application in the Bureau of Pen
sions after the passage of this act:
Provided, however, that where the pen
sion of said widow on her second or
subsequent marriage has accrued to
children under the age of sixteen
years, she shall not be entitled to re-
newal under this act unless said help
less or idiotic child, or child or chill
dren under sixteen years of age, be
| then a member or members of her
family and cared for by her, and upon
the renewal of pension to said widow
payment of pension to said child or
children shall cease: And provided fur
ther, that the provisions of this act
shall be extended to those widows,
| otherwise entitled, whose husbands
| died of wounds, injuries, or disease in
Cured during the period OF their mill
tary or naval service, but who were
deprived of pension under the act of
/ March third eighteen hundred and six
! ty-hye, because OF their failure to draw
any pension by reason of their remar-
| riage
! Sec. That any widow, as described
in section two of the act approved
April nineteenth, nineteen hundred
and eight, who married the soldier or
sailor prior to June twenty
nineteen hundred and five shall have
title to pension under the provisions of
said section of said act, to commence
from the date of filing her application
in the Bureau of Pensions after the
passage of this act: And provided fur
ther, that the benefits of this act shall
include those widows whose husbands,
il living, would have pensionable
status under the joint resolutions OF
February fifteenth. eighteen hundred
aud ninety-hve, July first, nineteen
hundred and two, and June twenty
eighth, nineteen hundred and six
Sec 4 That no claim agent or attor
uey shall be recognized in the adiudica
ton of claims under the first and sec
oud sections of this act
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