Chapter 324. granting a pension to Mary Wade
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CHAP. 324.— An Act granting a pension to Mary Wade.July 22, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*,Mary Wade.Pension. 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 Mary Wade, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who was the mother of Jennie Wade, who was killed while baking bread for the Union soldiers, and pay the said Mary Wade a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month to begin from and after the passage of this act, to continue during the widowhood of the said Mary Wade, she having been dependent for support on her said daughter.
Approved, July 22, 1882.