Chapter V. for the Relief of Thomas Dennis
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Chap. V.— An Act for the Relief of Thomas Dennis. March 29, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, A pension of $30 per month granted to Thomas Dennis. That there be, and hereby is, granted to Thomas Dennis, of the city of Philadelphia, in the Slate of Pennsylvania, who, whilst engaged in the discharge of his duty as a seaman, on board of the United States ship Princeton, on the fifth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, when at Gibraltar, and while in the act of firing a salute, had both his arms blown off, in lieu of any pension or allowance to which he may now be entitled by law, a pension of thirty dollars per month, to commence on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and to continue during his natural life, to be paid out of the navy pension fund.
Approved, March 29, 1850.