Chapter 935. granting a pension to Jane Smallridge
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CHAP. 935.— An Act granting a pension to Jane Smallridge.August 29, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John J. Coughlin.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay John J. Coughlin the sum of six hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirteen cents, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, said sum being difference of pay from laborer, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per day, to skilled laborer, at four dollars per day, for two hundred and twenty-nine and one-half days, in arranging cataloguing, and classifying bound volumes of newspapers in the Library of Congress.
Received by the President August 17, 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.]