Chapter 97.
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CHAP. 97.— An act to increase the pensions of Mrs. Mary Ann Cross, Mrs. Minnie L. Gardiner, and Mrs. Lilla May Pavy to thirty dollars per month.January 22, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mary Ann Cross, Minnie L. Gardiner, Lilla May Pavy. Pensions increased. That the Secretary of the Interior be. and is hereby, authorized and directed to place the names of Mrs. Mary Ann Cross, widow of Sergeant William H.
Cross, Minnie L. Gardiner, widow of Sergeant Hampton S. Gardiner, and 1268 Lilia May Pavy. widow of Doctor Octave Pavy, on the pension-roll at the rate of thirty dollars a month each, in place of that of twelve and seventeen dollars a month now allowed, the said William H. Cross, Hampton S. Gardiner, and Octave Pavy having served in the late Arctic expedition under Greely and lost their lives in consequence. Approved, January 22, 1889.