Chapter 536. for the relief of Isabel Hensley
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CHAP. 536.— An Act for the relief of Isabel Hensley.June 21, 1890. Whereas, Clinton B. Hensley, as captain of the Home Guards of Preamble.Bluette County, Minnesota, in the month of August eighteen hundred and sixty-two, while defending the settlers of New Ulm against an attack from the Upper and Lower Sioux Indians, contracted a disease of which he shortly after died; and Whereas said Clinton B. Hensley left surviving him as his widow Mrs. Isabel Hensley, who now resides in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, who is now in destitute circumstances:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Isabel Hensley.Pension., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place her name upon the pension roll and pay to her the sum of twenty dollars per month. Approved, June 21, 1890.