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whether by reason of a would received or disease contracted in the service of the United States and in the line of duty or otherwise, without leaving a widow or such relatives, then such accrued pension shall be paid to the executor or administrator of such person in like manner and effect as if such pension were so much assets belonging to the estate of the deceased at the time of his death.

SEC. 5.  And be it further enacted, That the repeal, by the Act entitled "An Act supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions," approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, of parts of certain acts mentioned in the first section of said Act, shall not work a forfeiture of any rights accrued under or granted by such parts of such acts so repealed, but such rights shall be recognized and allowed in the same manner and to all intents and purposes as if said Act had never passed, except that the invalid pensioner shall be entitled to draw from and after the taking effect of said Act the increased pension thereby granted in lieu of that granted by such parts of such acts so repealed.

SEC. 6.  And be it further enacted, That nothing in the fourth section of an Act entitled "An Act supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, or in any other supplementary or amendatory act relating to pensions, shall be so construed as to impair the right of a widow whose claim for a pension was pending at the date of her re-marriage, to the pension to which she would otherwise be entitled, had her deceased husband left no minor child or children under the age of sixteen years.

Approved, July 25, 1866.

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II... [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 40.]

A RESOLUTION respecting bounties to colored soldiers, and the pensions, bounties and allowances to their heirs.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the omission in the muster-rolls of the words "free on or before April nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one." shall not deprive any colored soldier of the bounty to which he is entitled, and which is now or may hereafter be withheld by reason of such omission, but where nothing appears on the muster-roll or of record, to show that a colored soldier was not a freeman at the date aforesaid, under the