Chapter CXCVI. for the Relief of Mrs
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Chap. CXCVI.— An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Nancy Weatherford, Widow of Colonel Wm. Weatherford, of the First Regiment Illinois Volunteers in the Mexican War. March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the InteriorNancy Weatherford to be placed on pension roll at $30 per month, for four years. be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Nancy Weatherford, widow of William Weatherford, colonel of the first regiment Illinois volunteers in the Mexican war, upon the roll of pensioners of the United States, and pay to her the sum of thirty dollars per month, to commence on the day of the death of the said Colonel William Weatherford, and continue for five years: *Provided,* That she shall be entitled to the benefit of any generalProviso. act of Congress which may hereafter be passed, extending or continuing the half-pay of widows, as if she had been placed on the pension roll under the provisions of the act entitled “An act amending the act entitled ‘An Act granting half-pay to widows or orphans, where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States,’ in case of deceased officers and soldiers of the militia and volunteers, passed July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six,” approved1848, ch. 108.
July twenty-one, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. Approved, March 3, 1855.