Chapter 272. To increase the pension of Mary S
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CHAP. 272.— An Act To increase the pension of Mary S. Higgins. February 20, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theMary S. Higgins.Pension increased. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the 810 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 272–275. 1897. pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the general pension laws, the name of Mary S.
Higgins, the widow of Jacob Higgins, who was a Mexican veteran of Pennsylvania and colonel of the One hundred and twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and the Twenty-second Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry in the war of the rebellion, and pay her a pension of thirty dollars per month, in lieu of that which she is now receiving. Approved, February 20, 1897.