Chapter XXX. granting a Pension to Joseph Morrison
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Chap. XXX.— An Act granting a Pension to Joseph Morrison. Feb. 25, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, A pension of $17 per month allowed Joseph Morrison. That there be granted to Joseph Morrison, late first lieutenant in the thirty-third regiment of infantry, a pension, at the rate of seventeen dollars a month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and to continue during his natural life—the said Morrison having been wounded in battle while acting as lieutenant of marines on board the brig Eagle, in the action on Lake Champlain, September eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Approved, February 25, 1847.