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 FII•*l‘Y~THIBD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ons; 193, 194. 1895. 965 pension-shall not be considered a part of the assets of the estate of ·. such deceased person, nor be liable for the payment of the debts of said estate in any case whatsoever, but shall inure to the sole and exclusive benefit of the widow or children. And if no widow or child survive Payment or sx`- such pensioner, and in the case of his last surviving child who was such £;*j°:,(" ‘“* “°*· minor at his death, and in case of a dependent mother, father, sister,Q, or brother, no payment whatsoever of their accrued pension shall be made or allowed except so much as may be necessary to reimburse the person who bore the expense of their last sickness and burial, if they did not leave sumcient assets to meet' such. expense. And the mailing mum; checkto ¤• of a pension check, drawn by a pension agent in payment of a pension *’“"‘“°"*‘ due, to the address of a pensioner, shall constitute payment in the event of the death of a pensioner subsequent to the execution of the voucher therefor. And all prior laws relating ·to the payment of accrued pension are hereby repealed. Approved, March 2, 1895. CHAP. 194.-An Act To ame d section forty-nine hundred and sixty-five, chapter Mm; 2, 1395, three, title sixty, of the Revisedp Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights. ——— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-nine hun- gvgyrigrctsdred and sixty-five, chapter three, title sixty, of the Revised Statutes, gw,'¤iism1.h.m6' P` be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "°"°· P-H"- "SEc. 4965. If any person, after the recording of the title of any ,,f;”:l;Yw;`;;,;$’l:·, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, print, cut, engraving, or companion., pl-me., photograph, or chromo, or of the description of any painting, drawing, fw statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected and executed as a work of the fine arts, as provided by this Act, shall, within the term limited, contrary to the provisions of this Act, and _without the consent of the proprietor of the copyright iirst obtained in writing, signed in presence of two or more witnesses, engrave, etch, work, copy, print, publish, dramatize, translate, or import, either in` whole or in part, or by varying the main design, with intent to evade the law, or, knowing the same to be so printed, published, dramatized, translated, or imported, shall sell or expose to sale any copy of such map or other article, as aforesaid, he shall forfeit to the proprietor all the plates on which the same shall be copied, and every sheet thereof, either copied or printed, and shall further forfeit one dollar for every Amount sheet of the same found in his possession, either printing, printed, copied, published, imported, or exposed for sale; and in case of a painting, statue, or statnary, he shall forfeit ten dollars for every copy of the same in his possession, or by him sold or exposed for sale: Provided, however, Prwiw- That in case of any such infringement of the copyright of a photograph m‘°°°'"’” made from any object not a work of fine arts, the sum to be recovered in any action brought under the provisions of this section shall be not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars, and: Provided, further, That in case of any such infringement of the ,m1;“Q‘;g_“$"'°'*‘°' copyright of a painting, drawing, statue, engraving, etching, print, or model or design for a work of the fine arts or of aphotograph ofa work of the fine arts, the sum to be recovered in any action brought through the provisions of this section shall be not less than two hundred and _ _ fifty dollars, and not more than ten thousand dollars. One-half of all D‘“‘i°“ °f’°"“""‘ the foregoing penalties shall go to the proprietors of the copyright · and the other half to the use of the United States." Approved, March 2, 1895.