Chapter 251. To extend the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act granting increase of pension to soldiers of the Mexican war in certain cases,” approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three
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CHAP. 251.— An Act To extend the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act granting increase of pension to soldiers of the Mexican war in certain cases,” approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. April 23, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the benefits of the Act Mexican war pensions. Increase in certain cases authorized. Vol. 27, p. 413. entitled “An Act granting increase of pension to soldiers of the Mexican war in certain cases,” approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be, and they are hereby, extended to all survivors of the Mexican war who are pensionable under existing Mexican war service pension laws, and who have become or may hereafter become wholly disabled for manual labor and in such destitute circumstances 138 that eight dollars per month are insufficient to provide them the necessaries of life, irrespective of the date of the granting of the said service pension.
Approved, April 23, 1900.