Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 27.djvu/833

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PRIVATE ACTS CF THE FIFTYSECCND CONGRESS or me UNITED STATES_ . Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the jifth day of December, 1892, and was adjourned without day on Friday, the third day of March, 1893. BENJAMIN Hnnrson, President; Levi P. Mormon, Vice-President and President of the Senate; Cnsrznms F. Mmvnrmzson, President pro tempore of the Senate; Gumnns FREDERICK Cmsr, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 2.-An act granting an increase of pension to John Hallam. December 16, nm. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the %¤h¤_H•!l¤m· Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the °“‘°" “‘°’°"‘°°‘ pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of John Hallam, late sergeant of Company D. United States Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month, in lieu of the pension he is now receiving. Approved, December 16, 1892. CHAP. 3.-An act granting increase of pension to Mary North, a widow of a sol- December 16, lm. (ier of war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and who is one hundred years old. """""_""" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the }Qn*5‘ff‘*m*&“ed_ Interior be, and be is hereby, directed to pay a pension of twenty-five dollars per month to Mary North, of Coweta County, Georgia, who is one hundred years old; said pension to be in lieu of the pension she now receives as widow of a soldier of war of eighteen hundred and twelve. Approved, December 16, 1892. CHAP. 4.-An act for the relief of R. B. W00d60¤. 16, 1892. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General 12. B. Woodson. be, and is hereby. authorized and directed to allow R. B. Woodson, post- ,,,·P'°'“* *" “°°°‘“‘*' master, Gainesville, Alabama, a credit for the sum of one hundred and tbrty-two dollars money-order innds collected by him and lost in transit from Gainesville, Alabama, to Mobile, Alabama, on or about September (809)