Chapter 193. To provide for the payment of accrued pensions in certain cases
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CHAP. 193.— An Act To provide for the payment of accrued pensions in certain cases.March 2, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pensions.Payment of accrued pension to death of pensioner.[R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919, amended](/us/rs/t/s4718/p919). That from and after the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the accrued pension to the date of the death of any pensioner, or of any person entitled to a pension having an application therefor pending, and whether a certificate therefor shall issue prior or subsequent to the death of such Vol. 26, p. 187.person, shall, in the ease of a person pensioned, or applying for pension, Distribution.on account of his disabilities or service, be paid, first, to his widow; second, if there is no widow, to his child or children under the age of sixteen years at his death; third, in ease of a widow, to her minor Not assets of estate.children under the age of sixteen years at her death.
Such accrued 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 survivePayment of expenses of last sickness, etc. such pensioner, and in the case of his last surviving child who was such minor at his death, and in case of a dependent mother, father, sister, 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 sufficient assets to meet such expense.
And the mailingMailing check to be payment. 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 And all prior laws relating to the payment of accrued pension are hereby repealed.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.