Chapter 1050. granting a pension to James McDonald
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CHAP. 1050.— An Act granting a pension to James McDonald.September 26, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James McDonald.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be. and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of James McDonald, assistant wagon-master, Quartermaster’s Department, whose invalid pension claim, numbered one hundred and sixty-three thousand six hundred and twenty-one, was rejected in the Pension Office on the ground that applicant was a civilian employee when he received the injury which caused the amputation of his leg, and to pay him a pension at the same rate as if he had been a regularly enlisted soldier.
Approved, September 26, 1888.