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 rms ¤.vn.»rnns1o1~:s. 921 as to occasion his employment in a lower grade, or in the civil branch of 30April, 18-1-1,e. the service. 15, v. 5, p. 657. 16 Aug., 1841, c. 3, s. 2, v. 5, p. 440. Sec. 47 25. All those surviving widows and minor children who have HBH-p¤yt¤Widbeen allowed five years` half-pay, under the provisions of any general i"'?- ‘i?°·· t “}‘d°" laws passed prior to the third day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty 3all§1°r ° um eight, are granted a continuance of such half-pay, to commence from the ¥————4- date of the last payment under the respective acts of Congress granting 853 ‘§“'}°i,1B5i’,bgthe same, and on the terms and limitations provided in the following ’s` "` ’p` ' section. Sec. 4726. Such half-pay is granted to such widows during life, and, Tcwidcwfcrlife, where there is no widow., to the children, while under the a e of sixteen '·“d*?°h'ld'°““”‘ vears: but in case of the remarriage or death of any such widow, the °}Eij half-pay shall go to the children of the decedent on account of whose Ibid. services it is claimed, while such children are under sixteen years of age, and no longer. Sec. 4727. The half-pay of such widows and children shall be half the Helbmvnthiy monthly y of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and pri- {’,‘:Yt“‘;$.*° fxceeg vates of the infantry of the Regular Army. and no more, and no greater (.,,fo,,(l_leu umn sum shall be allowed to any such widow or minor children than the half- ——<——— pay of a lieutenant-colonel. But the two preceding sections shall not be Ibm` construed to apply to or embrace the case of any person receiving a pension for life on the third day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; and, wherever half- pay has been granted by any special act of Congress, and renewed or continued under the provisions of those sections, the same shall continue from the date above named: 1’roz•a'ded, 'l`hat pensions under this and the two preceding sections, shall be varied in accordance with the rovisions of section four thousand seven hundred and twelve of this 'Fitle. Sec. 47:28. If any officer, warrant or petty officer, seaman, engineer, Navy pensionsiirst, second, or third assistant engineer, fireman or coal-heaver of the il A,,g_18_,8 c_ Navy or any marine has been disabled prior to the fourth day of March 155, ss. 2, 3, v. 9; p. eighteen hundred and sixty-one by reason of any injury received or dis- 283 _ ease contracted in the service and line of duty, he shall be entitled to I2? {f";,,- i8183“· receive during the continuance of his disability a pension proportionate ’’]` to the degree of his disability not exceeding half the monthly pay of his rank as it existed in January eighteen hundred and thirty-Eve. But the pension of a chief-engineer shall be the same as that of a lieutenant of the Navy; the pension of a first assistant engineer the same as that of a lieutenant of marines; the pension of a second or third assistant engineer the same as that of a forward officer; the pension of a fireman o1· coal-beaver the same as that of a seaman; but an enginee1·, fireman or coal-heaver shall not be entitled to any pension by reason of a disability incurred prior to the thirty-first day of August eighteen hundred and forty-two. _ _ Sec. 4729. lf any person referred to in the preceding section has died Karel 1}€¤¤¤¤¤¤ in the service, of injury received or disease contractec under the con- ;‘,;,k;‘r;‘:l°"’ ““‘l ditions therein stated, his widow shall be entitled to receive half the - --  -- monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the date of his death; 1,11 Aug-, 1_8*8» <‘· and in ease of her death or marriage, the child or children under sixteen lf2Q;' 1’ 2’ 3* V' 9* iears of age shall be entitled to the lpension. But the rate of pension` herein allowed shall be governed by the pay of the Navy as it existed in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five; and the pension of the widow of a chief engineer shall be the same as that of a widow of a lieutenant in the Navy; the pension of the widow of a first assistant engineer shall be the same as that of the widow of a lieutenant of marines; the ension of the widow of a second or third assistant engineer the same as flliat of the widow of a forward officer; the pension of the widow of a fireman or coalheaver shall be the same as that of the widow of a seaman. But the rate of pension prescribed by this and the preceding section shall be varied from and after the twenty-fifth day of July eighteen hundred and sixty- six in accordance with the provisions of section four thousand seven hun-