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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · March 3, 1847 · Chapter CXXI

Chapter CXXI. for the Relief of Job Hawkins

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Chap. CXXI.— An Act for the Relief of Job Hawkins. March 3, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Job Hawkins to be placed on the revolutionary pension roll.1832, ch. 126. That the Secretary of War be authorized, and he is hereby required, to place Job Hawkins, of the State of Massachusetts, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, in conformity with the act of the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, allowing pensions to the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution; and that the pension hereby allowed to him be paid as other pensions are, and so as to include any amount which was due to him when he was dropped from the rolls on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, at which time the pension now allowed is to commence.
Approved, March 3, 1847.
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