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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · Feb. 18, 1847 · Chapter XII

Chapter XII. for the Relief of Thomas Brownell

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Chap. XII.— An Act for the Relief of Thomas Brownell. Feb. 18, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Thomas Brownell to be placed on the roll of navy pensioners, and to be paid at the rate of $10 per month. That the name of Thomas Brownell be placed upon the roll of navy pensioners, and that he be paid ten dollars a month, commencing on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty, for disability incurred by him while in the discharge of his duty as master on board the Lawrence, under command of Commodore Perry, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen; the payment of said pension to be subject to the provisions of the second section of an act passed August sixteenth, eighteen 1841, ch. 8.hundred and forty-one, entitled “An Act for the Payment of Navy Pensions.
” Approved, February 18, 1847.
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