Volume 24
Private Law 43–217
granting a pension to Lydia A. Nelson.
Approved May 8, 1886
Statutory text
An act
granting a pension to Lydia A. Nelson.
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 hereby is, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Lydia A. Nelson, widow of the late John W. Nelson, of Company K, Fourteenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers.
Received by the President, April 27, 1886.
[Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]