Chapter XIX. *for the Relief of Mrs
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Chap. XIX.— An Act *for the Relief of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Smith, of Missouri.* March 1, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officers Elizabeth C. Smith to be paid for her services as a private in male attire.of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Mrs. Elizabeth C. Smith, of Missouri, for her services as a private in Captain Holeshider’s company “D,” of Colonel Gilpin’s regiment of Missouri Infantry volunteers, (from the sixteenth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to the fourteenth of May, eighteen hundred and forty-eight,) in which she served during that time, in male attire, and under the assumed name of “Bill Newcom,” as well as three THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 20, 21, 22, 23. 1854. 775months extra pay provided for by the fifth section of the act approved Extra pay. 1848, ch. 104.nineteenth. July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, in the same manner as if she had been properly mustered and regularly discharged. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Interior Warrant for 160 acres of land to issue to E. G. Smith.be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to Mrs. Eliza beth C. Smith, of Missouri, a warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land, in accordance with the ninth section of the act approved eleventh February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, for her services as recited 1847, ch. 8.in the foregoing section of this act, in the same manner as if she had served out the full term of her enlistment.
Approved, March 1, 1854.