Chapter CCXCII. *for the Relief of Mrs
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CHAP. CCXCII.— An Act *for the Relief of Mrs. Ann E. Smoot, Widow of Capt. Joseph Smoot*. July 27, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Payment to Mrs. Ann E. Smoot.1857, ch. 12, § 6.Vol. xi. p. 154. That the benefit of the sixth section of “An act to amend ‘An act to promote the efficiency of the navy,’” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-*nine*, [seven] be, and the same is hereby, extended to Mrs.
Ann E. Smoot, widow of the late Captain John Smoot, of the United States navy, and that the proper accounting officers of the treasury be authorized and directed to pay her the waiting orders pay of his rank which her said husband would be entitled to receive at the time he was placed on the reserved list on furlough pay, to the date of his death, deducting therefrom whatever amount he may have received in the meantime on account of pay. Approved, July 27, 1866.