Chapter LXVI. granting a Pension to Caroline and Margaret Swartwout
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CHAP. LXVI.— An Act granting a Pension to Caroline and Margaret Swartwout.June 19, 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 Caroline and Margaret Swartwout. is hereby authorized and directed to place upon the pension rolls the names of Caroline and Margaret Swartwout, sisters of Samuel Swartwout, late a commodore in the navy of the United States, and to pay to them, or the survivor of them, a pension at the rate of thirty dollars per month from the fifteenth day of February, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, during their joint lives and the life of the survivor.
Approved, June 19, 1868.