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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · April 26, 1856 · Chapter XXII

Chapter XXII. to continue Half-pay to Mrs

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Chap. XXII.— An Act to continue Half-pay to Mrs. Lewright Browning for a further term of five Years.April 26, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatHalf pay to he continued to Mrs. Lewright Browning. the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to continue to Mrs. Lewright Browning, widow of Robert L. Browning, late of the navy, half the monthly pay of her said deceased husband, for a further term of five years, from the time when the half-pay granted her by act of Congress, approved September twenty, eighteen hundred and fifty, shall cease.
Approved, April 26, 1856. Chapter XXVII: for the Relief of Christian Bar, of the State of Maryland. 11 Stat. 447 1856-05-14 Chapter XXVII Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-01-11 34 1 private
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