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 further appeal in accordance with the general rules prescribed therefor.

119. In case either of the married persons shall be in a state of want and shall be unable to work at the time when their marriage shall be terminated by death or by a judicial declaration that one of the parties to the said marriage shall be deemed to be dead, provision for the surviving party shall be made out of the property left by the deceased spouse.

120. Support shall also be granted to a married person indigent and unable to work whose husband or wife has been declared absent.

121. In case the person dead or judicially declared to be dead or absent shall be the owner of a trading or an industrial enterprise, the survivor, shall be entitled to support derived from the income of the said enterprise, which shall be managed thenceforth by the local Soviet.

122. Petitions pertaining to the provision of support in cases specified in Sections 119 to 121 shall be presented to the Department of Social Welfare attached to the local Soviet at the last place of residence of the person deceased or declared to be dead or absent.

123. In cases of immediate urgency provision for the support of the surviving party to a marriage may be made temporarily by the institution engaged in the preparation of the inventory and valuation of the property left by the deceased.

Note. Notice of payments made by such institution pursuant to this section shall be immediately transmitted to the proper