Volume 22 · 736
Private Law 47–457
granting an increase of pension to Joseph F. Wilson.
Approved August 7, 1882
Statutory text
AN ACT
granting an increase of pension to Joseph F. Wilson.
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 Joseph F. Wilson, late a corporal of Company E, Eighth Regiment of Illinois Infantry Volunteers, and pay him a pension of fifty dollars per month, in lieu of that which he now receives; this act to take effect from and after its passage.
Approved, August 7, 1882.