Chapter CCLXVIII. for the Relief of Mrs
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CHAP. CCLXVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Harriet B. Pendleton, Widow of George H. Pendleton, late of the United States Navy. June 1, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Certain prize money to be paid to Mrs. Harriet B. Pendleton, widow of George H. Pendleton. That Mrs. Harriet B. Pendleton, widow of George H. Pendleton, late acting master in the United States navy, who was captured January seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, on the coast of South Carolina, in the discharge of his duties, shall be, and is hereby, entitled to receive the share of all prizes captured by the United States steamer Montgomery during the time of his imprisonment, to which vessel said George H.
Pendleton was attached at the time of said capture, and that his name shall be considered as being borne upon the ship’s books the same as though he had been temporarily absent. Approved, June 1, 1872.