Chapter LXVIII. to increase the Pension of William H
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CHAP. LXVIII.— An Act to increase the Pension of William H. Johnson. March 1, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Pension of William H. Johnson increased. That the pension heretofore granted to William H. Johnson, late a private in the United States navy, be, and the same is hereby, increased from three dollars and fifty cents to eight dollars per month, and that he be paid at that rate, to commence on the first of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and that the Secretary of the Interior is directed to have it so entered in the department, to be subject, in all respects, to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws passed in relation to soldiers of the late war to put down the rebellion, known as the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Approved, March 1, 1869.