Chapter 568. to amend chapter two hundred and fifty-three of the acts of the Second Session Forty-fifth Congress, passed June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, granting a pension to John Langland
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CHAP. 568.— An Act to amend chapter two hundred and fifty-three of the acts of the Second Session Forty-fifth Congress, passed June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, granting a pension to John Langland.July 6, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John Langland.Pension.Vol. p. 568. That chapter two hundred and fifty-three, passed June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, second session of the Forty-fifth Congress, be amended so as to read as follows:
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of John Langland, late a private of Company B, First *Provisos.*Michigan Sharpshooters: *Provided,* That nothing in this act shall be May complete claim for increase.construed to prevent the said John Langland from completing his claim on file in the Department of the Interior numbered one hundred and eight thousand nine hundred and thirty-one; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to adjudicate said claim on the evidence on file and to be furnished hereafter:If allowed, deduction to be made. *Provided further,* That in case of the allowance of said claim by the Secretary of the Interior he shall deduct from said allowance the amount of money drawn by said claimant under this act.
Received by the President June 25, 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.]