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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · February 12, 1889 · Chapter 132

Chapter 132.

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CHAP. 132.— An act to increase pensions in certain cases.February 12, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pensions. For loss of both hands increased. R. S., sec. 4698, p. 915, amended. Vol. 20, p. 174. That from and after the passage of this act all persons who, in the military or naval service of the United States and in the line of duty, have lost both hands, shall be entitled to a pension of one hundred dollars per month. Approved, February 12, 1889.
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