Chapter CXCIII. to secure one Month’s Pay and Pension to Margaret Bailey, Widow of George B
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Chap. CXCIII.— An Act to secure one Month’s Pay and Pension to Margaret Bailey, Widow of George B. Bailey, Lieutenant Colonel in the Ninth Regiment of Virginia Volunteers.July 16, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be paid to MargaretMargaret Bailey to have one month’ s pay, Bailey, widow of George B. Bailey, late acting lieutenant colonel in the ninth regiment of Virginia volunteers, one month’s pay of a lieutenant colonel, for services rendered by her husband as lieutenant colonel and surgeon, prior to November tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, when he was killed in battle at Guyandott, Virginia.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Commissioner of Pensionsand pension. be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of said Margaret Bailey on the pension roll, at the rate of thirty dollars per month, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to continue during her widowhood. Approved, July 16, 1862.