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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · August 13, 1856 · Chapter XCVIII

Chapter XCVIII. granting a Pension to Ansel Wilkinson

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Chap. XCVIII.— An Act granting a Pension to Ansel Wilkinson.August 13, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAnsel Wilkinson to be placed on pension roll at $17.56 per month, from Feb. 19, 1856. 1858, ch. 52.*Post,* p. 532. the Secretary of the Interior be hereby required to place on the pension roll, at the rate of seventeen dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence from the nineteenth February, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, the name of Ansel Wilkinson, which said Ansel Wilkinson was seriously injured while doing service as a pilot on board the United States schooner Ariel, in the action fought on Lake Erie, under the command of Oliver II, Perry, on the tenth September, eighteen hundred and thirteen.
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