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Volume 22

Private Law 47–425

granting a pension to Elizabeth F. Rice.

Approved August 5, 1882

Statutory text

AN ACT

granting a pension to Elizabeth F. Rice.

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 the name of Elizabeth F. Rice, of Osceola, Iowa, formerly of Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, widow of Perry A. Rice, who died in Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, having been captured by General. J. E. B. Stuart, in a raid through Pennsylvania, on the tenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and that she be paid the sum of eight dollars a mouth.

Approved, August 5, 1882.

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