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922 Trrr.n r.vrr.—-—PENSIONS. dred and twelve of this Title; and the widow of an engineer, fireman, or coal-heaver shall not be entitled to any pension by reason of the death of her husband if his death was prior to the thirty-first day of August eighteen hundred and for·ty-two. _P€r¤-sions t¤_s0r Sec. 4730. Any officer, nomcommissioned officer, musician or private,

  • };:3 °f M°’“°°”‘whether of the Regular Army or volunteers disabled by reason of injury

_.-. --,-- receu ed or disease contracted whrle in the line of duty in actual service T3 ¥¤y, T84G. v- in the war with Mexico, or in going to or returnin from the same, who mi “· '·"·°· P· 1°· received an honorable discharge, shall be entitledg to a pension proportionate to his disability, not exceeding for total disability half the pay of his rank at the date at_whieh he received the wound or contracted the gjggaaeexgjigchofresplmp ru suclr dispbility. But no pension shall exceed a reu enan -co one . d “’i<l<jW=;I¤d Qhil- Sec. 4731. _If any ofheer or other person referred to in the preceding w‘;_“p;lSi;m‘;’:"““ section has died or shall hereafter die by reason of any injury received

 - . ...- . __`?-- or disease contracted under the circumstances therein set forth, his widow

2; fiqé- {Spb C- shall be entitled to receive the same pension as the husband would have 5,21 " *" '*Y" been entitled to had he been totally disabled; and in case of her death or remarriage, the child or children of such omcer or other person referred to in the preceding section, while under the age of sixteen years, shall be entitled to receive the pension. But the rate of pension prescr·ibcd by this and the prece ingl section shall be varied after the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen undred and sixty-six in accordance mth th'ef_pj·ov1sions of section four thousand seven hundred and twelve o tris It e. Widows and Sec. 4732. The widows and children under sixteen years of a e of the °j“ld‘”°“ {ef ofiieers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and prrvates of 516 reguj,;';°";,;’d Yndmu lars, militia, and volunteers of the \V8.l' of one thousand eight hundred wars. and twelve and the various Indian wars since one thousanch seven hun- - H¥cb~·1871 C dred and ninety who remained at the date of their death in the military 50_\,_ ,65;, 411isergfe ofdth; Uniltiedlitatesé or (yvho {received an honlorable discharge an ave re or s a erea ter ie o injury receive or disease contracted in the service and in the line of duty shall be entitled to receive half the rnlpnthly pay to which theldelpease was entitled at the time he r·eceive the in`ury or contracte the disease which resulted in his depth.] Bpt ng lralgpgyrpension shall elxcped the hajif-pay ofha lieutenan —eo one an suc a -pay pension s al re varie after thetwenty- fifth day of July one thousand erght hundred and sixty-six in accordance nptlj th; rirovrsrons of section four thousand seven hundred and twelve o t iis " it e. Continuance of Sec. 4733. All pensioners whose names ar·e now on the pension-roll P€¤¤*°“*'· or who are entitle to restoration to the roll under any act of Congress, shall be entitled to the continuance of such pensions under the provisions alnd lmutatrons of this '1`itle, and to such further increase of pension _ as is erein provided. b YQPWQT inet tv Sec. 4734. The provisions of law which allow the withholding of the _ *` “‘t ‘ “ ‘ r _ compensation of any person who is in arrears shall not be construed to W2? Ajay), mso, c. zutgorize the pension of any pensioner of the U nrted States to be with- , '. · , . o . 9] _ 'ifimv for which Sec. 4735. No pension shall be granted to a widow for the same time

E:£f;"a“;g;L,ggj that her husband received one.

30 April, 1844, 15, v. 5, p. 657. Pensiptps toner; Sec. 4736. The Secretary of the Interior is directed to place on the B**:;{‘°r;°0f‘€,'; 1*; pension-r0ll_ the names of the surviving officers and enlisted and drafted of mm ‘ men, including m1l1t1a and volunteers, of the military and naval service i~;FtT®q— of the Unrte States, who served sixty days in the war with Great 50 S I'; Y6 P 4,;** Britarn of eighteen hundred and twelve, and were honorably discharged. ’' and such other officers and soldiers as ma have been rsonally named rn any resolution of Congress for any ide service in that war, although therr term of seryrce may have been less than sixty days subject, however, to the provisions of section forty-seven hundred and sixteen.