Chapter XXI. for the Relief of Emily A
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Chap. XXI.— An Act for the Relief of Emily A. Lyon.Jan. 24, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the InteriorPension to Emily A. Lyon. be, and he is hereby, directed to place upon the pension roll the name of Emily A. Lyon, widow of Alfred M. Lyon, a late sutler in the595THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 27, 28, 31, 33, 36. 1865. twenty-third regiment of Iowa volunteers, but who volunteered as a private in company A of the said regiment, and while serving in that capacity was mortally wounded at the battle at Black River, Mississippi, on the seventeenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and died on the field; the said pension to be at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the seventeenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and continuing during the widowhood of the pensioner.
Approved, January 24, 1865.