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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · May 8, 1886 · Chapter 287

Chapter 287.

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CHAP. 287.— An act granting a pension to Polly Belden.May 8, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Polly Belden.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to put the name of Polly Belden, of West- more, Vermont, dependent mother of Hemen Belden, late of Company E, Ninth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, on the pension-roll, subject to the limitation of the pension laws. Received by the President, April 27, 1886. [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.] Chapter 288: for the relief of William F.
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