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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ons. 256-260. 1899. 1535 pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Washington Sweatt, late of Company K, Sixth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of forty-nve dollars per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Approved, February 28, 1899. • CHAP. 257.-An Act Granting a pension to Mary Longley Hendricks. February 28, 1899. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the d¥:ry¥·¤¤s1¤s·H¤¤· Interior be, and he is h‘ereby, authorized and directed to place on the '1¥.,,§i.,,,_ pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mary Longley Hendricks, widow of John H. Hendricks, late commissary sergeant, Company G, Fifty-fifth Indiana Volunteel: Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per mont . Approved, February 28, 1899. CHAP. 258.-—-An Act Granting a pension to John M. Palmer. February 1m. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the J¤r¤_M.1>uim·u-. 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 John M. Palmer, late major-general United States Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of fifty dollars per month. - Approved, February 28, 1899. CHAP. 259.-An Act Granting a pension to Margaret Wilber. 1"ebruury 2s, ism. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the }fe¤m·;]¤¤‘V¤\w· Interior is hereby authorized and directed to place upon the pension ‘ roll the name of Margaret Wilber, mother of Thomas E. Brooks, Company I, One hundred and tbrtieth New York Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws. ' Approved, February 28, 1899. CHAP. 260.-An Act Granting un increase of pension to David W. Pennywitt. February 28, 1899. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the wgpvid W- P¤¤¤s— Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the rémuuuaumwu. pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of David W. Pcnnywitt, late of Company I, Thirty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of twenty- four dollars per month in lieu of the pension he now receives. I Approved, February 28, 1899.