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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · May 8, 1886 · Chapter 304

Chapter 304. to provide increase of pension to James Waters

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CHAP. 304.— An Act to provide increase of pension to James Waters.May 8, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James Waters.Pension increased. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and ho is hereby, authorized and directed to increase the pension of James Waters, formerly a member of Captain Weatherbye’s company of Pennsylvania militia, and who was in the military service in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, to twenty-five dollars per month, in lieu of the eight dollars per month he is now receiving under his pension-certificate numbered twenty-five thousand five hundred and six.
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.]
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