THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 18.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 4, 1848.
Mr. Cocke, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
reported the following bill:
A BILL
Making further provisions for surviving widows of soldiers of
the Revolution.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled
, That if any person who served in the war of
the Revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed
the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,
entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of
certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,”
have died, or shall hereafter die, leaving a widow whose
marriage took place before the first day of January, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, such widow shall
be entitled to receive for and during her natural life, from
and after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and
forty-eight, the annuity or pension, which might have been

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allowed to her husband in virtue of said act, if living at
the time it was passed, under the same rules, regulations,
and restrictions, as are prescribed in the act, approved
July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled
“An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows:”
Provided, That in the event of the marriage of such
widow, said annuity or pensions shall be discontinued.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That such widows
as have been admitted by special acts of Congress to the
benefit of the pension act, approved the seventh July, eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-eight, or to the benefit of the act ap-
proved the seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-
four, shall be entitled and shall be admitted to the benefit
of this act, subject, however, to the rules, limitations, and
restrictions, in and by said acts prescribed.

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