Volume 20
Private Law 45–131
granting a pension to Mrs Emily H. Lyford
Approved May 25, 1878
Statutory text
An Act
granting a pension to Mrs Emily H. Lyford
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of t he Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow, from the date of the passage of this act, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension-laws, to Mrs Emily H. Lyford, widowed mother of William 0. Lyford, late second lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, the pension of a second lieutenant of infantry, in lieu of the pension now received by her.
Approved, May 25, 1878.