Chapter 368.
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CHAP. 368.— AN ACT granting a pension to David T. Stephenson.August 1, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,David T. Stephenson.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 David T. Stephenson, who was employed in the government service as watchman on the steamer Echo, and while so employed, on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, had both legs shot off by a shell from the Confederate army, and to pay him the same pension as would be allowed a private soldier for like disability.
Approved, August 1, 1882.