Chapter CXCI. to amend the acts of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows. Aug. 23, 1842. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the marriage Act of July 4,

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Chap. CXCI.— An Act *to amend the acts of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows.* Aug. 23, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the marriage Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362. July 7, 1838, ch. 189. Marriage of the widow to be no bar to her pension, if a widow at the time of applying.of the widow, after the death of her husband, for whose services she claims a pension, under the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall be no bar to the claim of such widow to the benefit of that act, she being a widow at the time she makes application for a pension.

Approved, August 23, 1842.