Chapter 420. Granting a pension to Margaret Burns
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CHAP. 420.— An Act Granting a pension to Margaret Burns. May 12, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Margaret Burns. Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Burns, widow of Peter Burns, late of Company F, Twenty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, such pension, however, to cease upon proof that the soldier is still living. Approved, May 12, 1900.