Chapter CXCII. for the Relief of Mrs
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Chap. CXCII.— An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Irene G. Scarritt. March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Mrs. Irene G. Scarritt to be placed on widow’s half-pay roll, for five years, at $25 per month from July 1, 1855. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Mrs. Irene G. Scarritt, widow of J. M. Scarritt, deceased, late an officer in the United States army, upon the list of widows entitled to half-pay, and pay her the sum of twenty-five dollars per month, commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and continuing for five years:
Proviso.*Provided,* That in case of her death or intermarriage before the expiration of said term of five years, then the pension hereby granted shall inure to the benefit of the child or children of said J. M. Scarritt, deceased, under sixteen years of age, if such there be: and if there be none such, then the same shall cease. Approved, March 3, 1855.