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 1380 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Cus. 460, 461. 1899. §g;¤_f*;¤_5d;:;;9·;]§:•;l;¤ there is no wife, to the legal guardian of the child or children: Provided ' further, That when a soldier or sailor enters into a State home for soldiers or sailors as an inmate thereof, one-half of his pension accruing during his residence therein shall be paid to his wife, she being a woman of good moral character and in necessitous circumstances, or if there, be no wife, then to his child or children under sixteen years of age, or his permanently helpless and dependent child, if any, unless such wife and children shall also be inmates of the same institution or of some home provided for the wives and children of soldiers and sail- ..National soiuiew or : Provided further, That if any such pensioner is or shall become an H°”’°~ inmate of a National Soldiers' Home one-half of the pension drawn in his behalf or to which he may become entitled during his residence therein shall be paid by the treasurer of that institution to such pensioner’s wife, she being in necessitous circumstances and a woman of good moral character, or, if there be no wife, to the legal guardian of the minor child or children, or the permanently dependent and helpless child or children of such pensioner, on the order of the Commissioner “P¤fi¤¤¤§¤fv_g;¤t:ij:_¤ of Pensions: Provided further, That hereafter no pension under any mm °”"'°°” .° ’ law of the United States shall be granted, allowed, or paid to the widow `of a soldier, sailor, oiicer, naval or military, marine, marine officer, or any other male person entitled to a pension under any law of `the United States, unless it shall be proved and established that the marriage of such widow to the soldier, sailor, officer, marine. or other person on account of whose service the pension is asked, was duly and legally contracted and entered into prior to the passage of this Act, or unless such wife shall have lived and cohabitcd with such soldier, sailor, olllcer, marine, marine omcer, or other person continuously from the date of the marriage to the date of his death, or unless the marriage shall take place hereafter and prior to or during the military or naval service of the soldier, sailor, officer, marine, or other person on account of whose service the pension is asked or claimed. This proviso shall not apply to or aifect the widow of any soldier, sailor, marine, officer, or marine officer serving or who has served in the war between the United States and the Kingdom of Spain. Bog¤1·¤¤¤¤,•>w- In all cases the questions of desertion, entrance into a home, necessitous circumstances, and of good moral character shall be ascertained · and determined by the Commissioner of Pensions under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, and the treasurers or governors of the several soldiers' and sailors’ homes shall be advised of such action from time to time. " Approved, March 3, 1899. Much 8. 1899 CHAP. 461.-An Act For the ex tension of Pennsylvania avenue southeast, and for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 1é•2¤:¤¤:i¤f¤:l¤g_:¤· States of America in 0'ongress assembled, That the Commissioners of the ,,1}.,,,,.*}},,,,., SE"' District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to extend and open Pennsylvania avenue southeast to the District line, the same to be on a straight extension and of the same width of said avenue as now established, and to ilx and establish the grades of the extension ' herein provided for within sixty days from the approval of this Act. 0¤M¤m¤•¤|¤¤ pw- SED. 2. That said Commissioners shall, within thirty days from the °°"‘u""'* date on which the grades on the extension herein provided for have been iixed and established according to the requirements of this Act, institute by petition a proceeding in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, holding a district court of the United States for said District, for the condemnation of a permanent right of way for the public over all the land lying within the limits of the aforesaid extension not already owned by the United States or the District of Columbia, excepting also all lands that may be dedicated to the public use for the said highway and the extension thereof. g
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