Chapter L. *granting a Pension to Mrs
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CHAP. L.— An Act *granting a Pension to Mrs. Jane Clements*. Feb. 18, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Pension to Mrs. Jane Clements. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Mrs. Jane Clements, of the District of Columbia, widow of Ignatius Clements, deceased, on the pension roll, and that he pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, during her widowhood, commencing on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the date of her husband’s death.
This act shall entitle the said Jane Clements to the benefit of the second section of the act approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred1886, ch. 235, § 2.*Ante*, p. 230. and sixty-six, in regard to minor children of deceased soldiers, if it shall be established to the satisfaction of the commissioner of pensions that she has such minor child or children as would entitle her to the benefit of said section. Approved, February 18, 1867.