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Volume 21

Private Law 46–231

granting a pension to John Fisher guardian of the infant heirs of William Dakin, deceased.

Approved June 15, 1880

Statutory text

An Act

granting a pension to John Fisher guardian of the infant heirs of William Dakin, deceased.

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 John Fisher, of West Virginia, guardian of the infant heirs of William Dakin, deceased, late private of Company G, Sixth Itegiment of West Virginia Infantry, and pay him as such guardian the sum allowed by law to minor children of deceased private soldiers, until they, the said children, arrive respectively at the age of sixteen years, commencing from July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, that being the date of the death of their said father.

Approved, June 15, 1880.

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