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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · February 25, 1889 · Chapter 270

Chapter 270.

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CHAP. 270.— An act granting an increase of pension to Stephen L. Kearney.February 25, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slides of America in Congress assembled*,Stephen L. Kearney. Pension increased. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Stephen L. Kearney, late a first lieutenant of the Third Regiment of Colored Troops in the service of the United States, on the pension-roll of the United States at the rate of twelve dollars and twenty-five cents per month, in lieu of the pension of eight dollars per month he is now receiving under certificate numbered thirteen thousand and twenty-six as a Mexican veteran under act approvedVol. 34. p. 371.
January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved, February 25, 1889.
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