Chapter CCCLXXIX. granting a Pension to Margaret Nelson
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CHAP. CCCLXXIX.— An Act granting a Pension to Margaret Nelson. June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Pension to Margaret Nelson. That the Secretary of the 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 Margaret Nelson, widow of John Nelson, late private in company H, seventeenth United States infantry, and to pay her a pension from the passage of this act. Approved, June 8, 1872.