Chapter CXXIV. *for the Relief of Moses Olmstead and Mrs
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Chap. CXXIV.— An Act *for the Relief of Moses Olmstead and Mrs. Elizabeth Craig.* March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Interior Moses Olmstead to be placed on pension roll at $8 per month, from January 20, 1853, for life.be authorized and directed to place the name of Moses Olmstead on the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him, during his life, a pension of eight dollars per month; said pension to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Mrs. Elizabeth Craig to be placed on pension roll. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized and required to place the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Craig, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Craig, of the United States army, who was killed in California about the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, on the pension roll, at the rate of one-half the pay her husband was receiving at the time of his death: this allowance to commence from the said first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and to continue to her during her widowhood; and should she THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 125, 126, 127, 128. 1853. 765marry again, or die, while her daughter, now living, shall be a minor, the same allowance shall be made to said daughter during her minority. Approved, March 3, 1853.