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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Aug. 5, 1854 · Chapter CCL

Chapter CCL. *to provide a Pension for Captain Thomas Porter.* Aug. 5, 1854. *Post,* p. 860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Captain Thomas Porter, Capt

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Chap. CCL.— An Act *to provide a Pension for Captain Thomas Porter.* Aug. 5, 1854. *Post,* p. 860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Captain Thomas Porter, Capt. Thos. Porter to be placed on pension roll, at $20 per month, from March 1, 1831.a deputy quartermaster-general in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, be placed upon the roll of invalid pensioners, at twenty dollars per month, commencing on the second day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one, deducting from said amount such sum or sums as have heretofore been allowed and paid to him as pension money. Approved, August 5, 1854.
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