PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS or mn UNITED STATES Passed at the jirst session, which was and 4 at the Oity of Washington, in the District of Ootumbia, on M A , the day of December, 1901, and was adjourned without day on T@ , theétyt of Jubg, 1902. ‘ oa A .» Tnnooonn Roosnvnm, President;<iWii.1.1A1g$B» Farm, President of the Senate pro tempore; on the twenty- A day of ggllay, 1902, Orevrm.11 H. Purr was chosen Acting President pro the; Dmfm B. HENDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ‘~» ’ CHAP. 4.-An Act Providing for the free transportation of all mail matter sent ·I¤¤¤¤¤‘Y 22. 1902- ’ by Mrs. Ida S. McKinley. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o Rqnresentatives of the United States of America in Congress That all mail matter sent by the post by Ida S. McKinley, widow of the late William iMcKinley, zmnted w. under her written autograph signature, be conveyed free of postage during her natural life. Approved, January 22, 1902. CHAP. 8.-An Act Granting a pension to Mary E. Davis. February 5, 1902. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofReEvresentati*ves of the United [mmm M Q`] States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the gl::},,};?; D•'*•· Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the ` pension roll, subgect to the provisions and limitations of the pension aws, the name o Mary E. Davis, widow of Charles M. Davis,.late of Compan B, One hundred and twenty-seventh Regiment United States Colored {Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month. Approved, February 5, 1902. CHAP. 9.-—-An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth O. Gould. February s,1802. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofR1e€z·esentatives of the United [mm°` N°' 3] States of America in Congress assembled, at the Secretary of the £*{¤¤0-¤¤¤*¢, Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension aws, the name of Elizabet O. Gould, widow of Edward F. Gould, late first lieutenant Company D, Eighth Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of seventeen dollars per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. ` Approved, February 5, 1902. 1251
