Chapter CDXXXVI. *granting a Pension to Ada H
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CHAP. CDXXXVI.— An Act *granting a Pension to Ada H. McDonald.* March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Interior Pension to Ada H. McDonald.be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Ada H. McDonald, widow of Charles McDonald, late colonel of first regiment of militia of the district of Memphis, Tennessee, organized under orders from the War Department, and pay her a pension from and al ter the passage of this act: *And provided,* if the widow, from any cause, Proviso.should cease to draw the pension herein granted, the same shall be con tinued to the minor son of Colonel McDonald, now his only surviving child, until he is sixteen years old.
Approved, March 3, 1873.