Chapter 46. for the benefit of the widow and children of General James Shields, and to increase the pension of Caroline S
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CHAP. 46.— An Act for the benefit of the widow and children of General James Shields, and to increase the pension of Caroline S. Webster.June 28, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James Shields. That payment of the pension of one hundred dollars monthly granted to James Shields, late a brigadier- general of United States volunteers, by an act of Congress approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be continued to his widow and children, the full amount of said pension to be paid said widow during her widowhood, and at the expiration thereof, if the same should occur whilst said children, or any of them are under the age of sixteen year's, then the said pension shall be paid to such of said children as may then be under the age of sixteen year's, in equal parts, until they respectively arrive at that age.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorizedCarolines. Webster. and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisionsPension. and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Caroline S. Webster, widow of Fletcher Webster, late Colonel of the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment, who was killed at the second battle of Bull Run, Virginia, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month; said pension to be in lieu of that she now receives. Approved, June 28, 1879.