Chapter 992. for the relief of Samuel Purcell
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CHAP. 992.— An Act for the relief of Samuel Purcell.September 7, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Samuel Purcell.Pension increased. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll the name of Samuel Purcell, who was a private in Company A. First Indiana Volunteers, in the Mexican war, and pay him a pension of thirty dollars per month, in lieu of the pension he now receives.
Received by the President August 27, 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.]