Chapter 53.
165 words·~1 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-25/chapter-53-5132250·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 53.— An act granting a pension to Emma F. Read.January 16, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Emma F. Read. Pension.That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Emma F. Read, the blind daughter of Captain John Read, of the Falls Church, Virginia, Home Guards, upon the United States pension-roll, and pay to her a pension at the rate of eighteen dollars per month, during her life-time, subject to the provisions and limitations of the general law.
Received by the President January 4, 1889. [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.]