Chapter 55. granting a pension to William M
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CHAP. 55.— An Act granting a pension to William M. Watson, of Walker County, Georgia.February 1, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,William M. Watson.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the name of William M. Watson, of Walker County, Georgia, an invalid soldier of the Mexican War, being a member of Company E. First Alabama Volunteers, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and that in consequence of his disability, arising from a wound received in said service, he be paid at the rate of fifteen dollars per mouth.
Received by the President January 20, 1893. [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.]