User:CharlesSpencer/pension template

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{{{date}}}.
[{{{congress}}}.]
[Private, No. {{{serial}}}.]

{{{grantee}}}.
Must be g or i

Chap. {{{chapter}}}.—An Act Granting a pension to {{{grantee}}}.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the 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 {{{grantee}}}, {{{quality}}}, and pay Must be m or f a pension at the rate of {{{rate}}} dollars per month.

Approved, {{{date}}}.

mandatory parameters
{{
|date = <!--in full, with comma, but no terminal period-->
|serial = <!--"Private, No." is supplied-->
|congress =   <!--senate or house no.-->
|grantee =  <!--name-->
|type =  <!--grant or increase-->
|chapter = <!--chapter number-->
|rate = <!--figures only - "per month" is supplied-->
|quality = <!--usually widow of veteran-->
|gender =  <!--m/f-->

optional parameters

|topchap = <!--y if top chapter on page, in which case no horizontal line-->
|side = <!--l for sidenotes on left in Page: namespace only--> NOT YET IMPLEMENTED
|proviso = <!--leave blank if no proviso-->
|sidenote = <!--leave blank if no proviso-->
|2ndproviso = <!--leave blank if no proviso--> On 2nd thoughts, won't be implemented - 2nd provisos are ''vanishingly'' rare!
|2ndsidenote = <!--leave blank if no proviso--> As above
}}