Chapter 669. granting a pension to Elisha Wilkins
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CHAP. 669.— An Act granting a pension to Elisha Wilkins.July 17, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Elisha Wilkins.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby instructed to place on the pension-roll, the name of Elisha Wilkins, of Crawfordsville, Iowa, late a private soldier in the company of Captain Jacob Peak, and in the regiment of Colonel Joseph Byrd, in the war with the Creek Indians in Florida, in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and pay him a pension subject to the limitations and provisions of the pension laws.
Received by the President July 5, 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.]