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

Chapter XCVII. for the Relief of Elizabeth Adams

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Chap. XCVII.— An Act for the Relief of Elizabeth Adams. March 3, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Elizabeth Adams to be placed on the pension roll. That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to place Elizabeth Adams, widow of Passed Midshipman Adams, late of the United States navy, on the pension roll, at the highest rate prescribed, and that her pension commencePension to commence from Nov. 8, 1842. from the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-two. Approved, March 3, 1847.
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