Chapter 1. Granting a pension to Marie Doughty Gorgas
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CHAP. 1.— An Act Granting a pension to Marie Doughty Gorgas. November 22, 1922.[[S. 3300](/us/bill/67/s/3300).][[Private, No. 147](/us/67/pvtl/147).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Marie Doughty Gorgas.Pension granted.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 Marie Doughty Gorgas, widow of William Crawford Gorgas, late a major general in the United States Army, and pay her a pension at the rate of $150 per month in lieu of any pension or compensation to which she might otherwise be entitled, in special recognition of the eminent services of said William Crawford Gorgas in the eradication of yellow fever from the island of Cuba and the Isthmus of Panama.
Approved, November 22, 1922.