Chapter 46. To increase the pension of Byron Cotton
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CHAP. 46.— An Act To increase the pension of Byron Cotton. January 16, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Byron Cotton.Pension increased. That the Secretary of the Interior is directed and empowered to place upon the pension roll the name of Byron Cotton, late of Company A, Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, at the rate of fifty dollars a month in lieu of the pension he is now receiving.
Received by the President, January 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.]