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 916 Trrmu 1.vn.——PENSIONS. Pericdofservioe. Sec. 4701. The period of service of all persons entitled to the benefits h°W °°“S*’“°d· of the nsion-laws, or on account of whose death any gerson may become Ibid., s. 7. entitledé to a pension, shall be construed to extend to the time of disbanding the organization to which such persons belonged, or until their actual discharge for other cause than the expiration of the service of such organization. Pensicnsm wid- Sec. 4702. lf any rson embraced within the provisions of sections <>W¤ OT *0 Qhildwn forty-six hundred ancrhinety-two and forty-six hundred and ninety-three “ nd **2; ““°‘"’“ has died since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or hereafter dies by reason of any wound, injury, ordis ease, which, under Ibldc B- 8- the conditions and limitations of such sections, would have entitled him to an invalid pension had he been disabled, his widow, or if there be no widow, or in case of her death, without payment to her of any part of the pension hereinafter mentioned, his c ild or children, under sixteen years of age, shall be entitled to receive the same pension as the husband or father would have been entitled to had he been totally disabled, to commence from the death of the husband or father, to continue to the widow during her widowhood, and to his child or children until they severally attain the age of sixteen years, and no lon er; and, if the widow remarry, the child or children shall be entitled from the date of remarriage. Increased_ pen- Sec. 4703. The pensions of widows shall be increased from and after ¤l°¤ *0 W¤d¤'”· the twenty-fifth day of Jul, eighteen hundred and sixty-six at the rate &°‘ of two dollars er month flbr each child under the age of sixteen years, Ibid.,s.9,p.570. of the husband) on account of whose death the claim has been, or shall be, granted. And in every case in which the deceased husband has left, or shall leave, no widow, or where his widow has died or married again, or where she has been deprived of her pension under the provisions of the pension-law, the pension granted to such child or chil ren` shall be increased to the same amount per month that would be allowed under the fore oing provisions to the widow, if livingand entitled toa pension: Provided, That the additional pension herein granted to the widow on account of the child or children of the husband by a former wife shall be id to her only for such period of her widowhood as she has been, or shalllbe, charged with the maintenance of such child or children: for an period during which she has not been, or she shall not be, so charged: it shall be granted and paid to the guardian of such child or children: Provided _ further, That a widow or guardian to whom increase of pension has been, or shall hereafter be, granted on account of minor children, shall not be deprived thereof by reason of their being maintained in whole or in part at the expense of a State or the public in any educational instjtution, or in any institution organized for the care of soldiers’ or ans. What children Sec. 4704. In the administration of the pension—laws, children horn d€¤¤¤¢dl°K¤*¤m¤*€; before the marriage of their rents, if acknowledged by the father before Ibm_, q, 10, or after the marriage shall KZ deemed legitimate, Widows of col. Sec. 4705. The widow of colored and Indian soldiers and sailors who ored_ and Indian have died, or shall hereafter die, by reason of wounds or injuries received, °°ld’°’“· *‘°~ or casualty received, or disease contracted, in the military or naval service Ibid., s. 11. of the United States, and in the line of duty, shall be entitled to receive the pension provided bv law without other evidence of marriage than satisfactory proof that the parties were joined in marriage b some ceremony deemed by them ob igatory, or habitually recognizedy each other as man and wife, and were so recognized by their nei hbors, and lived together as such up to the date of enlistment, when sudln soldier or sailor died in the service, or, if otherwise, to date of death; and the children born of any marriage so proved shall be deemed and held to be lawful children of such soldier or sailor, but this section shall not be applicable to any claims on account of persons who enlist after the third day of Marc, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. Abandonment, Sec. 4706. If any person has died, or shall hereafter die, leaving a &°·» by "'*d*§Y;_ widow entitled to a pension by reason of his death, and a child or children Ibid., . 12. under sixteen years of age by such widow, and it shall be duly certified