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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · December 8, 1917 · Chapter 2

Chapter 2. Granting six months’ pay to Ida Cottrell Hodgson, widow of Frederick Grady Hodgson, deceased, colonel, United States Army, retired

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CHAP. 2.— An Act Granting six months’ pay to Ida Cottrell Hodgson, widow of Frederick Grady Hodgson, deceased, colonel, United States Army, retired. December 8, 1917.[[H. R. 5833](/us/bill/65/hr/5833).][[Private, No. 3](/us/pvtl/65/3).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Ida Cottrell Hodgson,Ida Cottrell Hodgson.To receive amount of six months’ pay of deceased retired officer. widow of Frederick Grady Hodgson, deceased, colonel, United States Army, retired, is hereby allowed an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate said Frederick Grady Hodgson was receiving at the date of his death.
Sec. 2. That said Ida Cottrell Hodgson, widow of Frederick GradyPayment authorized. Hodgson, deceased, colonel, United States Army, retired, as afore-said, be paid out of the Treasury of the United States a sum of money or an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate said Frederick Grady Hodgson, deceased, was receiving at the date of his death. Sec. 3. That the payment of the amount of money hereby allowedAllowed from designated appropriation. and authorized to be paid to said Ida Cottrell Hodgson is authorized to be made from the appropriations for beneficiaries of officers who die while on the active list of the Army. 1357 Approved, December 8, 1917.
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