Chapter 858. To amend an Act entitled "An Act amending section forty-seven hundred and eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to pensions to remarried widows," approved March third, nineteen hundred and one
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CHAP. 858.— An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act amending section forty-seven hundred and eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to pensions to remarried widows," approved March third, nineteen hundred and one. February 28, 1903.[[Public, No. 124](/us/pl/34/124).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Pensions.Rights of widows, etc., remarrying. That section forty-seven hundred and eight of the laws of the United States governing the granting of army and navy pensions, be. and the same is, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 4708. [R. S., sec. 4708, p. 917, amended](/us/rs/s4708/p917).Vol. 31, p. 1445.Pension during widowhood.The remarriage of any widow, dependent 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 To cease on remarriage.filed before or after such marriage; but on the remarriage of any widow, dependent mother, or dependent sister having a pension such *Provisos*.Pension restored on renewed widowhood.Beneficiaries extended.[R.
S., sec. 4693, p. 913](/us/rs/s4693/p913).pension shall cease: *Provided, however*, That any widow who was the awful wife of any officer or enlisted man or other person in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States, as described in para-graphs one, two, and three of section forty-six hundred and ninety- three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, during the period of his service in any war, and whose name was placed or shall here-after 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 since died or shall hereafter die. or from whom she has been heretofore or shall be hereafter divorced, upon her own appli-921cation 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 JuneVol. 26, p. 182.Vol. 31, p. 170. twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, and May ninth, nineteen hundred, shall be entitled to have her name again placed on the pension roll at the rate now provided for widows by the Acts of July fourteenth,Vol. 12, p. 567.Vol. 17, p. 569.Vol. 24, p. 5. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, such pension to commence from the date of the filing of her application in the Pension Bureau after the approval of this Act: *And provided further*, That where such widow is already in receipt ofNot restored if drawing pension. a pension from the United States she shall not be entitled to restoration under this Act: *And provided further*, That where the pension ofChildren’s pension to cease on restoration of pension to mother. said widow on her second or subsequent marriage has accrued to a helpless or idiotic child, or a child or children under the age of sixteen years, she shall not be entitled to restoration under this Act unless said helpless or idiotic child, or child or children under sixteen years of age, be then a member or members of her family and cared for by her, and upon the restoration of said widow the payment of pension to said child or children shall cease.
” " Sec. 2. That the provisions of this Act shall be extended to thoseWidows entitled to pension who failed to draw pension because of remarriage. widows otherwise entitled whose husbands died of wounds, injuries, or disease contracted during the period of their military and naval service, but who were deprived of pension under the Act of MarchVol. 33, p. 499. third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, because of their failure to draw any pension by reason of their remarriage. Sec. 3.
That no claim agent or other person shall be entitled toAgents’ fees prohibited. receive any compensation for services in making application for pension under this Act. Approved, February 28, 1903.