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to which such persons and their dependents shall be entitled, Provost Marshals shall be ranked as Captains, Deputy Provost Marshals as First Lieutenants, and Enrolling Officers as Second Lieutenants.

SEC. 2.  And be it further enacted, That the pensions to widows of deceased soldiers and sailors having children by such deceased soldiers or sailors, be increased at the rate of two dollars per month for each child of such soldier or sailor under the age of sixteen years. And in all cases in which there shall be more than one child of any deceased soldier or sailor leaving no widow, or where his widow has died or married again, or where she has been deprived of her pension under the provisions of section eleven of an 
Act entitled "An Act supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions," approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the pension granted to such children under sixteen years of age by existing laws shall be increased to the same amount per month that would be allowed under the foregoing provisions to the widow if living and entitled to a pension: Provided, That in no case shall more than one pension be allowed to the same person.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to grant pensions," approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of, the acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof, are hereby, so far as applicable, extended to the pensioners under previous laws, except revolutionary pensioners.

SEC. 4 And be it further enacted, That if any person during the pendency of his application to an invalid pension, and after the completion of the proof showing his right thereto, has died, or shall hereafter die, but not in either case by reason of a wound received, or disease contracted in the service of the United States, and in the line of duty, his widow, or if he left no widow, or in the event of her death, or marriage, his relatives in the same order in which they would have received a pension if they has been thereunto entitled, under existing laws on account of the services and death in the line of duty of such person, shall have the right to demand and receive the accrued pension to which he would have been entitled had the certificate issued before his death; and in all cases where such person so entitled to an invalid pension has died, or shall hereafter die, under circumstances hereinbefore mentioned,

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