Chapter 226. for the relief of Thomas S
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CHAP. 226.— An Act for the relief of Thomas S. Hopkins, late of Company C, Sixteenth Maine Volunteers.May 1, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Thomas S. Hopkins.Pension and arrears. That Thomas S. Hopkins, late a private in Company C, Sixteenth Maine Volunteers, now on the pension-roll, be, and he is hereby, exempted, by reason of mental incapacity, from the limitation prescribed in section two of the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and Vol. 20, p. 265.seventy-nine, entitled “An act making appropriations for the payment of the arrears of pensions granted by act of Congress approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes, and he shall be entitled to, and there shall be paid to him, the same rate of pension, and the same arrears thereof, as if his application for a pension had been filed with and allowed by the Commissioner of Pensions prior to June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.
Received by the President, April 19, 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.]