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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · March 3, 1885 · Chapter 378

Chapter 378. granting a pension to Mrs

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CHAP. 378.— An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Cordelia Brainerd Thomas.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Cordelia Brainord Thomas.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Cordelia Brainerd Thomas, widow of the late Reverend E. Thomas, who was killed by the Modoc Indians in eighteen hundred and seventy-three, while acting as a member of a peace commission sent by the United States Government to treat with the said Indians, and to pay her, from and after the passage of this act, during her widowhood, the sum of twenty dollars a month.
Approved, March 3, 1885.
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