Chapter 24.
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CHAP. 24.— An act granting a pension to Mary B. Holmes.Mar. 19, 1886. Whereas a bill (Senate twenty-six hundred and seven) was passed byPreamble. both Houses of the Forty-eighth Congress, second session, and approved by the President on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, granting a pension to Mary B. Holmes, the widow of John W. Holmes; and Whereas by an error in the name of the said John W. Holmes (who was in said act styled “ Henry” W. Holmes) the said Mary B.
Holmes was precluded from obtaining such pension as granted in said act: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mary B. Holmes.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 Mary B. Holmes, widow of John W. Holmes, late a lieutenant of Company F, Seventy-second Regiment New York Volunteers, and allow her the same pension drawn by her husband during his life, to take effect from the date of the approval of the aforesaid act by the President, on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
Sec. 2. That the act granting a pension to Mary B. Holmes, approvedVol. 23, ch. 384, p. 673, repealed. March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, is hereby repealed. Approved, March 19, 1886. Chapter 25: for the relief of Sarah B. Jackson. Chapter 25 24 Stat. 684 1886-03-19 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-24 43 1 private 684 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 25, 26, 31, 32. 1886.
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