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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · March 3, 1879 · Chapter 290

Chapter 290.

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CHAP. 290.— AN ACT granting an increase of pension to Ward B. BurnettMarch 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,W. B. Burnett.Pension increased. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension- roll the name of Ward B. Burnett, and pay him a pension of fifty dollars per month in lieu of the pension he now receives ; but nothing in this act contained shall entitle the said Ward B. Burnett to arrears of pension. Approved, March 3, 1879.
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