Chapter 343. granting pensions to Wilson W
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CHAP. 343.— An Act granting pensions to Wilson W. Brown and othersJuly 7, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Wilson W . Brown.John R. Porter.William Bensinger.John A. Wilson.William Peitinger.Martin J. Hawkins.Daniel A.Dorscy. Elihn A.Mason. Rachel Slavens.Pensions. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, at the rate of twenty-four dollars per month, the names of Wilson W.
Brown, late second lieutenant of Company F, Twenty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteers: John R. Porter, late second lieutenant of Company C, Twenty- first Regiment Ohio Volunteers; William Bensinger, late captain of Company C, Thirteenth Regiment United States Colored Infantry; John A. Wilson, late of Company C, Twenty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteers; William Pottinger, late of Company C, Second Regiment Ohio Volunteers; Martin J. Hawkins, late of Company A, Thirty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteers;
Daniel A. Dorsey, late second lieutenant of Company H, Thirty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteers; Elihu A. Masou late of Company K, Twenty-first Ohio Volunteers; and Rachel Slavens, widow of Samuel Slavens, a soldier executed at Atlanta, Georgia, by the Confederate authorities, June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- two*Proviso.* ; *Provided,* That the pensions hereby granted, shall be in lieu of all other pensions that have been granted to or claimed by any of the above named persons under the provisions and limitations of the pension laws.
Sec. 2. That this act shall not be construed to diminish the pension now being paid to any of the persons therein named nor to deprive them of any increase to which they now are entitled or hereafter may be entitled. Approved, July 7, 1884.