Chapter 321. for the relief of Alpheus R
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CHAP. 321.— An Act for the relief of Alpheus R. French.Mar. 2, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alpheus R. French.Pension increased. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to increase pension number one hundred and ninety-three thousand three hundred and ninety-one, of Alpheus Robert French, from seventeen dollars per month to forty dollars per month, from and after the passage of this act; it appearing that said pensioner is now seventy-eight years of age and totally disabled for manual labor of any kind by reason thereof, and eight wounds and other disabilities incurred during a long and honorable Service in the Army of the United States in the Black Hawk war of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the Florida or Seminole war of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, the Mexican war, and the late war.
Approved, March 2, 1887.