Chapter CLXIII. granting a Pension to Maria Raftery
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CHAP. CLXIII.— An Act granting a Pension to Maria Raftery.July 13, 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 Maria Raftery and children. is hereby authorized and directed to place the name of Maria Raftery, widow of Patrick Raftery, late a corporal in company H, thirty-third regiment Massachusetts volunteers, on the pension roll, and that he pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month during her widowhood, commencing on the second day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three; and two dollars per month for each child of said Raftery under the age of sixteen years, commencing on the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and to continue until they shall respectively attain the age of sixteen years.
Approved, July 13, 1868.