Chapter 222. granting a pension to Jane D
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CHAP. 222.— An Act granting a pension to Jane D. Cotten.June 15, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Jane D. Cotten.Pension to. That the Secretary of the Interior 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 Jane D. Cotten, dependent mother of Major William H. Cotten, of the Eleventh Regiment Louisiana Volunteer. Infantry, who was mortally wounded on the seventh day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-three, at the battle of Milliken’s Bend. Approved, June 15, 1878.