Chapter 197.
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CHAP. 197.—An act granting a pension to Betsey Elwell. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.*,Betsey Elwell, pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll the name of Betsey Elwell, formerly Betsey Butler, widow of Jeremiah Elwell, a private in the Twenty-first Regiment United States Infantry, war of eighteen hundred and twelve, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to date from the passage of the act of March ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, “ granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and their widows, and for other purposes”.
Approved, March 3, 1881.