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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 15 STAT. · July 20, 1868 · Chapter CXC

Chapter CXC. for the Relief of Joseph M’Ghee Cameron and Mary Jane Cameron, Children of Lafayette Cameron, deceased

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CHAP. CXC.— An Act for the Relief of Joseph M’Ghee Cameron and Mary Jane Cameron, Children of Lafayette Cameron, deceased.July 20, 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 children of Lafayette Cameron. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the names of Joseph M’Ghee Cameron and Mary Jane Cameron, residents of the District of Columbia, children under sixteen years of age of Lafayette Cameron, deceased, on the pension rolls, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, and to pay them a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the seventh day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to each the additional sum of two dollars per month from the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, until they severally attain the age of sixteen years.
Approved, July 20, 1868.
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