Chapter 279. granting an increase of pension to Colonel Samuel M
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CHAP. 279.— An Act granting an increase of pension to Colonel Samuel M. Thompson.February 28, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Col. Samuel M. Thompson.Pension increased. 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 Samuel M. Thompson, a private in the Mexican war 661 under Colonel E.
D. Baker, and colonel of the Fourth Illinois Regiment of Volunteers in the Black Hawk war, and pay him a pension of twenty-five dollars per month, in lieu of that which he now receives. Approved, February 28, 1885.