Chapter CLXXII. granting a Pension to Amanda M
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CHAP. CLXXII.— An Act granting a Pension to Amanda M. Ritchey.June 29, 1870. *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 Amanda M. Ritchey. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Amanda M. Ritchey, widow of Powers Ritchey, late a contract surgeon in the United States army, upon the pension rolls, and to pay her a pension at the rate of seventeen dollars per month from and after the passage of this act. Approved, June 29, 1870.