Chapter CLV. for the Relief of Mary A
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CHAP. CLV.— An Act for the Relief of Mary A. Filler. March 3, 1869. Preamble.Whereas Sergeant Henry Drenning, late of company K, fifty-fifth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, was killed at Cold Harbor, in Virginia, on the third day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, leaving no widow, [and] no heirs lineal or collateral; and whereas the Henry Drenning was the adopted and foster-son from childhood of Mrs. Mary A. Filler : Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Mary A.
Filler may receive back pay due Henry Drenning. That Mary A. Filler, foster mother of said Henry Drenning, shall be entitled to receive the back pay due to the said Henry Drenning at the time of his death, and the bounty to which he would have been entitled by law. Approved, March 3, 1869.