Chapter XC. granting a Pension to Caroline V
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CHAP. XC.— An Act granting a Pension to Caroline V. Cram.Feb. 27, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of thePension to Caroline V. Cram. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Caroline V. Cram, widow of Jacob Cram, late a captain in the “Putnam Guards,” a cavalry company of Ohio militia, who was killed in an engagement with the forces under John Morgan, in the attempt of the latter to cross the Ohio river at Buffington’s island; and to pay her a pension from and after the passage of this act, during her widowhood.
Approved, February 27, 1871.