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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · Jan. 8, 1849 · Chapter V

Chapter V. for the Relief of Zilpha White

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Chap. V.— An Act for the Relief of Zilpha White. Jan. 8, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Zilpha White’s name to be placed on the revolutionary pension roll. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the name of Zilpha White, widow of William White, of Tolland, Connecticut, to be placed upon the pension list, for six months’ services of her husband as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, her pension to commence on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and fortyseven.
Sec. 2. To have the benefit of future acts.*And be it further enacted*, That said Zilpha White shall be entitled to the full benefit of all laws which may hereafter be enacted, continuing in force the acts mentioned in the foregoing section. Approved, January 8, 1849.
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