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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · March 3, 1881 · Chapter 181

Chapter 181.

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CHAP. 181.—An act granting a pension to Mary A. Shemelia. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mary A. Shemelia, pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place, or cause to be placed, upon the pension-rolls of the United States the name of Mary A. Shemelia, as dependent widowed mother of William H. Shemelia, deceased, late a member of Company C, of the Thirty-fourth Regiment of New Jersey Volunteer’s, who died at post hospital at Paducah, in the State of Kentucky, December fourteenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty four, at the full rate of pension allowed by the pension laws to dependent widowed mothers of enlisted soldiers, to commence from and after the passage of this act.
Approved, March 3, 1881. FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CH. 182-186. 1881.
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