Chapter LXIX. *to continue a Pension to Christine Barnard, Widow of the late Brevet Major Moses J
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Chap. LXIX.— An Act *to continue a Pension to Christine Barnard, Widow of the late Brevet Major Moses J. Barnard, United States Army.* June 1, 1858. *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 Pension of $30 a month, from July 4, 1857, to be continued to Christine Barnard.be, and he is hereby, directed to continue upon the pension roll, at the rate of thirty dollars per month, from and after the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, when her pension expired, the name of Christine Barnard, widow of the late Brevet Major Moses J.
Barnard, captain in company H, regiment of voltigeurs, who was twice wounded in planting the American colors upon the parapet of Chepultepec while storming that fortress, and who died from disease contracted in, and greatly enhanced by hardships and fatigue of the Mexican campaign; said pension to be held by her, or by her children, in accordance with existing laws in reference to the widows and children of those who died from wounds or disease received or contracted during the Mexican war.
Approved, June 1, 1858.