Chapter CCXXXI. granting an Increase of Pension to Frances T
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CHAP. CCXXXI.— An Act granting an Increase of Pension to Frances T. Richardson, Widow of the late Major-General Israel B. Richardson.July 23, 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 Frances T. Richardson increased. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the name of Frances T. Richardson, widow of the late Major-General Israel B.
Richardson, ffor pension at the rate of fifty dollars per month from the third day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, on which day General Richardson died from wounds received in the bat-399FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 231, 232, 277, 278, 279. 1868.tle of Antietam on the seventeenth day of September, eighteen hundredPension to continue how long. and sixty-two, said pension to be continued during her widowhood, and if that should terminate, then to be continued to Israel Philip Richardson, sole surviving child of said General Richardson, until he shall become sixteen years old.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the pension heretofore allowedProvision as to former pension. to said Frances T. Richardson, 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. Approved, July 23, 1868.