• PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE I UNITED STATES · Passed at the third session which was begun and held at the Oit o W h' tem ° th District of Columbia, ai Monday the jijth dan; of December, 1g9S? andazdd? adjourned without day on the third day of March, 1899. Wrnnum MCKINLBY, President; GA1z1mr A. Homnr, Vice-President and President of the Senate; WILLIAM P. FBYE, President of the Senate, pro tempore; THOMAS B. REED, Spealzer, and SEBEN0 E. PAYNE, Speaker pro tempore, of the Hou e of Representatives. CHAP. 1.-An Act Granting an increase of pension to George E. Welles. December20,1sss. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P°g‘?*,{;}}‘~¤W·¤¤, Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name ' of George E. Welles, late colonel Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on the pension roll and pay him a pension at the rate of thirty dollars per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Approved, December 20, 1898. CHAP. 2.-An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Caulheld. December 20, 1800. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the Secretary of the {fw; A· ¤•¤1¤•1¤- Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon °°° °”' the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mary A. Caulfield, widow of Thomas Caulfield alias Thomas McDonaugh, late of Second Battery, Massachusetts llight Artillery, and pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month. Approved, December 20, 1898. CHAP. 3.-An Act Granting a pension to Eliza J. Mead. December 20. mss. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Gongress assembled, That the Secretary of the },*E:¤_ghM¤¤¢ interior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to place on the ' pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Eliza J. Mead, widow of James W. Mead, late third assistant engineer, United States steamship Dumbarton, and pay her a pension at the rate of ten dollars per mouth. Approved, December 20, 1898. 1497
