Chapter X. granting a Pension to Phebe Sofield, Widow of Lewis Sofield
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CHAP. X.— An Act granting a Pension to Phebe Sofield, Widow of Lewis Sofield. April 4, 1871. *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 Phebe Sofield.[Amended.1873, ch. 434.Post, p. 784.] 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 Phebe Sofield, the widow of Lewis Sofield, a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and to pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars a month, from the fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, when she became one hundred years of age.
Approved, April 4, 1871.