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Private Law 38–CXXIX
granting a Pension to Sophia Brooke Taylor, Widow of the late Major Francis Taylor.
Approved March 3, 1865
Statutory text
An Act
granting a Pension to Sophia Brooke Taylor, Widow of the late Major Francis Taylor.
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
Pension to Sophia Brooke Taylor.
be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Sophia Brooke Taylor, widow of the late Francis Taylor, major of the firstTHIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 130, 131, 132, 133, 134. 1865. regular United States artillery, who died of yellow fever while in command of the post at Fort Brown, Texas, on the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, upon the pension roll, at the same rate of pay which he would have been entitled to if he had been totally disabled at the time of his death, for and during the period of her natural life or widowhood.
Approved, .