Chapter CCCXC. granting an Increase of Pension to Emily B
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CHAP. CCCXC.— An Act granting an Increase of Pension to Emily B. Bidwell, Widow of Brigadier-General Daniel D. Bidwell, and to Sarah Hackleman, Widow of Brigadier-General Pleasant A. Hackleman.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 Emily B. Bidwell. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the name of Emily B.
Bidwell, widow of the late Brigadier-General Daniel D. Bidwell, for pension, at the rate of fifty dollars per month, from the nineteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, on which day General Bidwell fell mortally wounded at the battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, to continue during widowhood. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the pension heretofore allowedFormer pension discontinued. said Emily B. Bidwell under general law be discontinued; but the sum received by her under the same shall be deducted from the pension hereby granted, and this pension shall be subject to the provisions of the general pension law. 427 FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 390–394. 1868. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the InteriorPension to Sarah Hackleman. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the name of Sarah Hackleman, widow of the late Brigadier-General Pleasant A. Hackleman, for pension, at the rate of fifty dollars per month, from the third day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, on which day General Hackleman fell mortally wounded at the battle of Corinth, to continue during her widowhood.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the pension heretofore allowedFormer pension discontinued. said Sarah Hackleman under general law be discontinued; but the sum received by her under the same shall be deducted from the pension hereby granted, and this pension shall be subject to the provisions of the general pension law: *Provided,* That the increase of pension herein grantedProviso. shall take effect from the date of the passage of this act. Approved, July 27, 1868.