Chapter 307. Granting an increase of pension to Mrs
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CHAP. 307.— An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Annie E. Colwell. June 1, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Annie E. Colwell.Pension increased.That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to place on the pension roll the name of Mrs. Annie E. Colwell, widow of Thomas W. Colwell, sergeant of Company C, Second Regiment Ohio Infantry, Mexican war, and lirst sergeant of Company H, Fifth Ohio Cavalry, war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month in lieu of the pension she now receives.
Received by the President, May 20, 1896. [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.]