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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 385,386. 1900. 171 ing laws, or whose claims are pending in the Bureau of Pensions, ma, redeieneee under by application to the Commissioner .of Pensions, in such form as lie §§§.i§§§ “°‘·‘·°‘°·· “°“ may prescribe, showing themselves entitled thereto, receive the benefits of this Act; and nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent any pensioner thereunder from prosecuting his claim and receiving his pension under any other general or special Act: Provided, mglge 9g{ggSi°¤ *°* however, That ngferson shall receive more than one pension for the Serviice rank not same period: A provided farther, That rank in the service shall not °°“”id°"’°‘ be considered in applications filed underthis Act. · " Sno- 3. That if. any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days augeggggggkgaigws or more in the Army or Navy of the United States during the late war ` of the rebellion, and who was honorably dischar ed has died, or- shall hereafter die, leaving a widow without means og support other than her daily labor, and an actual net income not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars per year, or minor children under the age of sixteen years, such widow shall, upon due proof of her husband’s death, with- “"d°"’S P€¤s*°”· out proving his death to e the result of his army service, be placed on the pension roll from the date of the ap lication therefor under this Act, at the rate of eight dollars per month during her widowhood, and shall also be paid two dollars per month for each child of such officer or enlisted man under sixteen years of a e; and in case of the —<>¤i1dr¤¤· death or remarriage of the widow, leaving a chi§d‘ or children of such oizlicer or enlisted man under the age of sixteen years, such pension shall be paid such child or children until the age of sixteen: Provided, P”””*’°·*· That in case a minor child is insane, idiotic, or otherwise physically ;;°gj,?§3“gggdPg3§,gg or mentally helpless, the pension shall continue durin the life: of said permanent disability; child, or during the period of such disability; and tgis proviso shall §§,‘2§?23,Y°m°11p°"` apply to all pensions heretofore granted or hereafter to be granted under this or any former statute; and such pensions shall commence from the date of a plication therefor after the passage of this Act: Amt provided furtlgr, That said widow shall have married said soldier gu to time of rior to the passage of the said Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen m °‘ hundred and ninety." - Approved, May 9, 1900. CHAP. 386.-An Act To amend the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred Mw 9»190°· and ninety-nine, for the allowance of certain c aims for stores and supplies reported ‘ by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March t 1rd, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly knownas the Bowman Act, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and Ease ofRq7resentatives oftbe United · States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of -the Act for m{;<=,g}>S&&£g%g¤j{,¤;;; the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by] the nngiemen, deceased. Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act alpproved March t ird, {°,*§‘,§’j‘“"§f °°,;,_ mg, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commopiy known as the Bow- ¤¤¤¤¤°•=d· man Act, and for other purposes, approved arch third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the legal representatives of Jacob S. Engleman, deceased, late of Augusta County, Virginia, five hundred and ten dollars be repealed. "And in lieu thereof there is appropriated to Jacob S. Engleman, administrator of John Engleman, deceased, late of Augusta County, Virginia, the sum of five hundred and ten dollars, and the same is directed to be paid him bv the Secretary of .the Treasury. d Approved, May 9, 1900.