Volume 9
Private Law 30–XXIX
granting a Pension to Patrick Walker.
Approved April 8, 1848
Statutory text
An Act
granting a Pension to Patrick Walker.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there be allowed and paid Patrick Walker, a soldier of the first regiment of artillery in the war with Mexico, a pension at the rate of forty dollars per month, in lieu of the pension he now receives, to commence on the twenty-eighth of October last, and to continue for one year; the said Walker having lost his right arm, and nearly the whole of his left hand, by a cannon-ball, in the action at Churubusco, on the twentieth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.
Approved, .