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Volume 29

Private Law 54–276

For the relief of Elizabeth J. Cook, of Arkadelphia. Clark County, Arkansas, widow of Robert T. Cook.

Approved May 30, 1896

Statutory text

An Act

For the relief of Elizabeth J. Cook, of Arkadelphia. Clark County, Arkansas, widow of Robert T. Cook.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Elizabeth J. Cook.

Pension.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the name of Elizabeth J. Cook, of Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas, widow of Robert T. Cook, who, at the town of Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas, in the month of July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, volunteered and served as a United States soldier in the war with Mexico in the First Arkansas Mounted Infantry Volunteers, and pay her a pension of eight dollars per month.

Approved, .

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