Chapter 71. Granting an increase of pension to Mrs
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CHAP. 71.— An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Margaret Smith.February 8, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Margaret SmithPension increased for benefit of idiotic daughter. That the pension of twelve dollars per month heretofore granted and now allowed to Mrs. Margaret Smith, widow of Richard Smith, deceased, late a member of Company L, First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, be, and the same is hereby, increased to the sum of fourteen dollars per month; and that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to her the sum last mentioned per month from and after the passage of this Act.
Said increase of pension to be for the benefit of her hopelessly idiotic daughter, and to continue only so long as said daughter shall continue to be dependent upon her; but in case of the death of the widow the pension of fourteen dollars per month shall be paid to the guardian of the daughter, Helena Smith, as long as she may live and continue helpless. Approved, February 8, 1895.