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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · February 22, 1889 · Chapter 186

Chapter 186.

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CHAP. 186.— An act to pension J W. Porter.February 22, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John W. Porter. Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby directed to place on the pension-rolls of the Government the name of John W. Porter, late private of Company E, Battalion of Missouri Mounted Volunteers, application numbered eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty-three, for services in the Army of the United States in the establishment of military posts, and tor services on the frontier during the war with Mexico, subject to the limitations and regulations of the pension laws of the United States in pensioning the survivors of the war with Mexico.
Such pension to date from January twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven. Approved, February 22, 1889.
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