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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Dec. 19, 1854 · Chapter VIII

Chapter VIII. for the Relief of Thomas Ellis

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Chap. VIII.— An Act for the Relief of Thomas Ellis. Dec. 19, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Thomas Ellis to be placed on pension roll for life, at $8 per month, from May 11, 1852. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Thomas Ellis, of Platte county, in the State of Missouri, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, during his life. Approved, December 19, 1854.
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