Chapter 1016. for the relief of Mary M
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CHAP. 1016.— An Act for the relief of Mary M. Briggs.September 13, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mary M. Briggs.Pension increased. 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 M. Briggs, a volunteer nurse during the war of the rebellion, and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, in lieu of the widow’s pension she is now receiving.
Received by the President September 1, 1888. [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.]