Chapter CCCXXIX. granting a Pension to Sarah E
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CHAP. CCCXXIX.— An Act granting a Pension to Sarah E. Ball, Widow of James Ball, deceased, late a Fireman on the Steamer Vidette, connected with the Burnside Expedition.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 Sarah E. Ball. 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 Sarah E.
Ball, of the city of Poughkeepsie, in the State of New York, widow of James Ball, deceased, who was a fireman on the steamer Vidette, belonging to the government of the United States and connected with the Burnside Expedition, an[d] died of disease contracted in the service, leaving said widow surviving and issue under age of sixteen years, two children, to wit: Elnora, born June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and414FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 329–333. 1868. fifty-three, and George D., born January third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five; and that she be paid a pension of eight dollars per month, during her widowhood, to commence on the ninth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and at her death or marriage the pension from that event to be paid to the children of the said James Ball, deceased, as may be then under the age of sixteen years.
Approved, July 27, 1868.