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 F1FTY-S1XTH CONGRESS. Sess. 11. Cris. 864, 865. 1901. 1445 conduct such office as a branch of the bank, subject to the same restrictions and having the same rights as the bank to which it belongs: Provided, That the branch office authorized hereby, if the same shall. d f be as branch of a national bank, shall not be operated for a period $133} pm) ° °per`· longer than two years, beginning not earlier than July first, nineteen hundred and two, and closing not later than July first, nineteen hundred and four. · . Sec. 22. That no citizen of any foreign country shall be held liable p&gIféi¤g€m€¤* of for the infringement of any patent granted by the United States, or of ` any trade—mark or label registered in the United States, where the act complained of is or shall be performed in connection with the exhibition of any article or thing at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Sec. 23. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized, c€}S¢*¤¤ of Mm ·.·‘ <>¤°¤— at his discretion, to di-itail for special duty, in connection with the ' Louisiana Purchase Exposition, such officers of the Army as may be required, to report to the genera1 commanding the Department of Missouri; and the officers thus detailed shall not be subject to loss of pay or rank on account of such detail, nor shall any officer or employee of the United States receive additional pay or compensation because of services connected with the said exposition from the United States or from said ex osition. Sec. 24. Tihat nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to create mlggmd Swiss ¤°* any liability of the United States, direct or indirect, for any debt or ` obligation incurred, nor for any claim for aid or ecuniary assistance from Congress or the Treasury of the United Sptates in support or liquidation of any debts or obligations created by said commission. Sec. 25. That as a condition precedent to the payment of this appro- S¤¤d¤v ¤I¤¤i¤s· griation the directors shall contract to close the gates to visitors on undays during the whole duration of the fair. Approved, March 3, 1901. CHAP. 865.-An Act Amending section forty-seven hundred and eight of the M¤1‘¢i1 3.1901- Revised Statutes of the United States in relation to pensions to remarried widows. "_“`“—_`_` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R resentatvbes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-seven f,’§Q},§§{’,§,§0,dep€Hd_ hundred and eight of the laws of the United States governing the ent mother. ew,. ro granting of army and navy pensions be, and the same is, amended to °€§i'§.?§cli¥$€r§Z€$j read as follows: **m°°d°d· The remarriage of- any widow, de endent mother, or dependent sister entitled to pension shall not bar her right to such pension to the date of her remarriage, whether an application therefor was filed before or after such marriage; but on the remarriage of any widow, dependent mother, or dependent sister having a pension,`such pension shall cease: Provided, however, That any widow who was the lawful ,€g;*£)·§·r€sm ed on wife of any officer or enlisted man in the Army, Navy, or Marine renewed »v166»$n66a. Corps of the United States, during the lperiod of his service in any wa1·, and whose name was placed or shal hereafter be placed on the pension roll because of her husband’s death as the result of wound or injury received or disease contracted in such military or naval service, and whose name has been or shall hereafter be dropped from said pension roll by reason of her marriage to another person who has s1nce died or shall hereafter die, or from whom she has been heretofore or shall be hereafter divorced, upon her own application and without fault on her part, and if she is without means of support other than her daily labor as defined by the Acts of June twenty-seventh, eight- VOL 2,, p_ 1,,., een hundred and ninety, and Ma ninth, nineteen hundred, shall be An{e.1>'.170. entitled to have her name again pieced on the ension roll at the rate xgij  SQ gg? now provided for widows by the Acts of J ully fourteenth, eighteen V°‘·2“*-¥’·5·