Chapter 530. granting a pension to Benjamin Contel
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CHAP. 530.— An Act granting a pension to Benjamin Contel.July 4, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Benjamin Contel.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll the name of Benjamin Contel, formerly drummer-boy in Company K. Sixth United States Infantry, serving in said company from April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, until eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and participating in the Black Hawk war, re-enlisting in same regiment in eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and serving until eighteen hundred and forty-four; also served as private in Captain Morgan’s battalion Missouri volunteers in Florida war; who also served as captain Company F, Ninth Iowa Cavalry, from August, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, until February, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; also served as a sergeant in Company H.
Fourth Regiment United States Infantry, and that he be rated at twelve dollars per month. Approved, July 4, 1888.