Chapter 167. for the relief of William J
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CHAP. 167.— An Act for the relief of William J. Owings.Feb. 21, 1887. Whereas, in conformity on an act of Congress approved March ninth,Preamble. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, certificate numbered twenty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-nine, for original-service pension, dated March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, was issued to Henry Owings, a private in Captain James Dudley’s Company of Kentucky militia, in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve; and Whereas said Henry Owings died December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. before said certificate was issued, leaving 905 no estate whatever, and no widow or child under sixteen years of age: and Whereas William J.
Owings, of Randolph County, Missouri, a son of said Henry Owings, had the entire care and support of his father, the said Henry Owings, for ten years immediately preceding his death, he being then very old and enfeebled by age having died on the date aforesaid in his eighty-fourth year: and Whereas under existing laws no money can be drawn on said pension-certificate except an amount sufficient to pay the expenses of the last sickness and burial of said deceased pensioner, a sum wholly inadequate to reimburse said William J.
Owings for his support of the deceased pensioner in his old age: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Wm. J. Owings.Payment to, of pension due Henry Owings., That the Commissioner of Pensions is directed to pay to William J. Owings of Randolph County, Missouri, the amount of pension which had accrued to Henry Owings, deceased, at the time of his death, December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, by virtue of certificate numbered twenty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-nine, for original-service pension, dated March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.
Approved, February 21, 1887.