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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · March 1, 1879 · Chapter 161

Chapter 161.

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CHAP. 161.— AN ACT granting a pension to Cynthia Spradlin.March 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Cynthia Spradlin.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension- roll, the name of Cynthia Spradlin, widow of Jacob M. Spradlin, late private in Company G-, Sixth Tennessee Volunteers ; but nothing in this act contained shall entitle the said Cynthia Spradlin to arrears of pension. Approved, March 1, 1879.
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