Chapter 292. Granting a pension to Mellisa Adams, widow of Silas Adams
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CHAP. 292.— An Act Granting a pension to Mellisa Adams, widow of Silas Adams. February 22, 1897. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theMellisa Adams.Pension. Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place on the 816 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 292–295. 1897. pension roll the name of Mellisa Adams, of Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky, widow of Silas Adams, deceased, late colonel of the First Kentucky Cavalry and pay her a pension of thirty dollars per month.
Received by the President, February 10, 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.]