Chapter 56. Granting an increase of pension to Isaac H
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CHAP. 56.— An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac H. Whetsel, of Louisville, Kentucky. January 16, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theIsaac H. Whetsei.Pension increased. Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to increase the pension of Isaac H. Whetsei, late private in Company B, Second Regiment United States Cavalry, to sixteen dollars per month, for gunshot wound of right thigh and callouses of buttocks, in lieu of the pension which he now receives.
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.]