Chapter 120. Granting an increase of pension to Melinda Heard
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CHAP. 120.— An Act Granting an increase of pension to Melinda Heard. January 12, 1903.[[Private, No. 98](/us/pvtl/57/98).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Melinda Heard.Pension increased. 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 1527 laws, the name of Melinda Heard, widow of John A. Heard, late of Captain Jones’s company, Georgia Volunteers, Creek Indian war, and pay her a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. Approved, January 12, 1903.