Chapter CCCLXX. granting a Pension to Mary Cover, Widow of Samuel Cover, deceased, late a Private in Company G, of the Fifty-sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers
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CHAP. CCCLXX.— An Act granting a Pension to Mary Cover, Widow of Samuel Cover, deceased, late a Private in Company G, of the Fifty-sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers.July 27, 1868. *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 Mary Cover. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mary Cover, widow of Samuel Cover, deceased, late a private in company G, of the fifty-sixth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, (who left one child, to wit, a son named Henry, born May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six,) and to pay her such a pension per month as a widow of a private is entitled to under existing laws, to commence from the tenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and continue during her widowhood, and at her marriage or death the pension from that event to be paid to said child while under sixteen years of age.
Approved, July 27, 1868.