Chapter 6. To provide for the payment of six months’ pay to the widow, children, or other designated dependent relative of any officer or enlisted man of the Regular Army whose death results from wounds or disease not the result of his own misconduct
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CHAP. 6.— An Act To provide for the payment of six months’ pay to the widow, children, or other designated dependent relative of any officer or enlisted man of the Regular Army whose death results from wounds or disease not the result of his own misconduct. December 17, 1919. [[S. 2497](/us/bill/66/s/2497).] [[Public, No. 99](/us/pl/66/99).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That hereafter, immediatelyArmy.Allowances for death in service to include retired list on active duty.Vol. 35, p. 108.Vol. 40, p. 611. upon official notification of the death from wounds or disease, not the result of his own misconduct, of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Regular Army or on the retired list when on active duty, the Quartermaster General of the Army shall cause to be paid to the widow, and if there be no widow to the child or children, and if there be no widow or child to any other dependent relative of such officer or enlisted man previously designated By him, an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted man at the date of his death.
The Secretary of War shallBeneficiaries to be designated. establish regulations requiring each officer and enlisted man having no wife or child to designate the proper dependent relative to whom this amount shall be paid in case of his death. Said amount shall be paid from funds appropriated for the pay of the Army. Sec. 2. That nothing in this Act shall be construed as making theApplicable only to Regular Army. provisions of this Act applicable to officers or enlisted men of any forces or troops of the Army of the United States other than those of the Regular Army, and nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply in commissioned grades to any officers except those holding permanent or provisional appointments in the Regular Army.
Approved, December 17, 1919.