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 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 200. 1908. 373 STATE on Tmnniroamn norms ron DISABLED SOLDIERS AND sixnlons: hS*¤*¤ ¤¤dT¤¤i°¤*i¤* For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of (ii]i»ii3zs,p wi. disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, one million one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: _ Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to €Q‘Q{"}‘ff,’€;0,,S_ any State or Territorial home until its laws, rules, or regulations respecting the pensions of its inmates be made to conform to the provisions of section four of an Act approved March third, eighteen hun- V°l· 2* p· 56* dred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act prescribing regulations for the Soldiers’ Home located at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes;" but the above proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained: And provided further, That no part of I¤°°Xi°¤¤*·*· this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial hcame that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are so. BAGK PAY AND BoUNtrY: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay b,,];§f,,i‘ p" "““d of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and le al heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, V°1‘ 14* p" ?22‘ eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of m§§’§?1m“t°t1°°°fr°` rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury durin the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, three hundred thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on WM with SP•¤¤· account of service of officers and men of the Army during the war " with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accountin officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred andg nine and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, fifty thousand dollars. . Hereafter, in the settlement of the accounts of deceased officers or Navy mm Manne enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, where the amount due the C°§§’{'t;€m€m 0; decedent’s estate is less than five hundred dollars and no demand is gggggdyggggsgg presented by a duly appointed legal representative of the estate, the emmec men. accountin officers may allow the amount found due to the decedenfs widow or iiegal heirs in the following order of precedence: First, to the Di“"“’““°“· widow; second, if the decedent left no widow, or widow be dead at time of settlement, then to the children or their issue, (per stirpes; third, if no widow or descendants, then to the father an mother in equal parts, provided father has not abandoned the support of his family, in which case to the mother alone; fourth, if either the father or mother be dead, then to the one surviving; fifth, if there be no widow, child, father, or mother at the date of settlement, then to the brothers and sisters and children of deceased brothers and sisters, per Pr _ stirpes: 1’rm·ided, That this Act shall not be so construed as to pre- Fuqggiexmmg, vent payment from the amount due the decedenfs estate of funeral expenses, provided a claim therefor is presented by the person or persons who actually paid the same before settlement hy the accounting officers. UNDER rua DEPARTMENT or Jusricn. a.'3t$*..‘;f"*"‘°“‘ "* COURT-Hoosm, "VASHINGTON, DISTRICT or Conummaz For animal C°mAh°us€' D' C` repairs, five thousand dollars; new roof for the building, two thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand eight hundred dollars, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol. V P1:NrTnN·r1Anv, Lnsvmzwonrn, Kaxsas, coxsrmucrroxz For con- {;§‘Q,§§e‘§,‘§,§§}{·’*““*· tinuing construction of the new United States penitentiary at Leaveuworth, Kansas, one hundred thousand dollars, to be available immedi-