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Private Law 54–48
Granting a pension to Mary Prince, widow of Ellis Prince.
Approved January 16, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
Granting a pension to Mary Prince, widow of Ellis Prince.
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 upon the FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 48–51. 1897. pension roll, subject to the. provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mary Prince, widow of Ellis Prince, late corporal of company commanded by Captain Christmas, Georgia Volunteers, and late member of company commanded by Captain Spirey, Georgia Volunteers, both of Indian war of eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and that he pay her a pension of eight dollars per month from and after the passage of this Act, and to continue during her widowhood.
Received by the President, .