Chapter 47. Granting a pension to Sarah Weedon Jones
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CHAP. 47.— An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Weedon Jones. January 16, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Sarah Weed on Jones.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pension roll the name of Sarah Weedon Jones, former widow of John H. Weedon, deceased, who was a sergeant in Company I, Fourth United States Infantry, in the Mexican war, and to pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month.
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.]