Chapter 248. Granting pensions to Gray’s Battalion of Arkansas Volunteers
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CHAP. 248.— An Act Granting pensions to Gray’s Battalion of Arkansas Volunteers. February 17, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theGray’s Battalion, Arkansas Volunteers.Survivors placed on Mexican War pension roll.Vol. 9, p. 9. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the names of all of the honorably discharged surviving officers and enlisted men of Gray’s Battalion of Arkansas Volunteers, raised under the Act of Congress of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for service during the war with Mexico; and the names of surviving widows of such officers and enlisted men, subject to theWidows.Vol. 24, p. 371. limitations and regulations of the pension laws of the United States for pensioning the survivors of the war with Mexico.
Received by the President, February 5, 1897. [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.]