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 444 FORTIETH CONGRESS Sess. III. Ch. 68, 69, 70. 1869. In-cb 1, 1889. CHAP. LXVHT.—An Ad fo increase the Pension of William H.· Johnson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Pension of States of America in Congress assembki That the pension heretofore }Vgli¤¤1 K granted to William H, Johnson, late a private in the United States navy, c35x51B` be, and the same is hereby, increased from three dollars and fifty cents to eight dollars per month, and that he be paid at that rate, to commence on the first of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and that the Secretary of the Interior is directed to have itso entered in the department, to be subject, in all respects, to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws passed in relation to soldiers of the late war to put down the rebellion, known as the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved, March 1, 1869. March 1, 1869. CHAP. LX1'X.—An Act granting back Pension to Edmund W. Wendell, ry` Wilkes- """_""`"`“" barn, Pennsylvania. Preamble. Whereas the said Edmund W. Wendell entered as e. private in company I, first regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, in the war with Mexico, and served to the close of that war in eighteen hundred and forty-eight, when he received an honorable discharge; that owing to disease contracted in said service his name in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four was placed upon the pension rolls at the rate of eight dollars per month ; that in November, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, he raised a company and was commissioned as captain of company G, of the one hundred and forty-third regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, in the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one; that ou the seventh day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, he was honorably discharged for disability contracted in the Mexican war, and ou application his pension was restored, but only from February, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, instead of from date of his discharge: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United wlgfk P¤(¤¤$¤ States of America in Congress assembled, That the sixth section of the Wand?,';"act of Congress entitled "An act relating to pcnsions," approved July 1868, ch. 264,§6. twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is A’*“» P- *3*- hereby, made applicable to the case of said Edmund W. Wandell. Approved, March 1, 1869. Much 1, 1869. CHAP. LXX. -An Act granting a Pension I0 Katharine Dreyer, `Widow of Sylvester ’"""“`“_""`” Dceger, deceased, Zale Private of Company II, of the Tenth Regiment of lllirnuzsola Vallm 68113. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Kignsivn to States q/' America in Congress assembled, That under the provisions of the D:°y::“° pension laws of the United States the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, required to place upon the pension roll the name of Katharine Dveyer, widow of Sylvester Dreyer, deceased, late a private in company H, of the tenth regiment of Minnesota volunteers, who died at Alton, Illinois, on the eighteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, leaving surviving said widow and issue, two children, to wit, William, born November eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and Augustus, born June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and that she be paid the pension during her widowhood, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty- four, besides the sum allowed for minor children of deceased soldiers under the age of sixteen years under existing laws. Aernovnn, March 1, 1869.