Chapter XXIX. granting a Pension to Patrick Walker
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Chap. XXIX.— An Act granting a Pension to Patrick Walker. April 8, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, A pension of $10 per month, granted to Patrick Walker in lieu of die pension he now receives. That there be allowed and paid Patrick Walker, a soldier of the first regiment of artillery in the war with Mexico, a pension at the rate of forty dollars per month, in lieu of the pension he now receives, to commence on the twenty-eighth of October last, and to continue for one year; the said Walker having lost his right arm, and nearly the whole of his left hand, by a cannon-ball, in the action at Churubusco, on the twentieth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.
Approved, April 8, 1848.