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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Jan. 31, 1855 · Chapter LII

Chapter LII. for the Relief of James Wright, Jr., of the State of Tennessee

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Chap. LII.— An Act for the Relief of James Wright, Jr., of the State of Tennessee. Jan. 31, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the pension of JamesPension of James Wright, jr., increased to $8 per month for life, from May 1, 1854. Wright, jr., of the State of Tennessee, be increased from five dollars and thirty-three cents to eight dollars per month, from the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four; and that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to cause him to [be] paid the pension of eight dollars per month, from said first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, during his life, instead and in lieu of his pension of five dollars and thirty-three cents per month, heretofore paid him.
Approved, January 31, 1855.
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