Chapter CXVI. granting a Pension to Mrs
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CHAP. CXVI.— An Act granting a Pension to Mrs. Abigail Chaplin. Feb. 5, 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 InteriorPension to Mrs. Abigail Chaplin. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pen- 726 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 117–119, 121. 1873. sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Abigail Chaplin, who was the widow of Josiah Snelling, junior, late a colonel in the United States army, to take effect from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy. Approved, February 5, 1873.