Chapter 122. granting a pension to Lucy E
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CHAP. 122.— An Act granting a pension to Lucy E. Anderson.Feb. 8, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Lucy E. Anderson.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 Lucy E. Anderson, widow of Major William A. Anderson, late first lieutenant and adjutant Twentieth Indiana Volunteers, after-wards captain, and appointed major of volunteers by brevet for gallant and meritorious services in the campaign terminating in the capture of Petersburg and the surrender of the insurgent army of Northern Virginia, and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month from and after the passage of this act.
Received by the President, January 27, 1887. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]