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1476 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 556-560. 1898. July 1.1898. CHAP. 556.-An Act To increase the pension of Mary Broggan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United gw B¤1>sz•·¤· I States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the °°"°° "` ’ Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to increase to the sum of fourteen dollars per month, the same to be in lieu of the amount she is now receiving, the pension of Mary Broggan, widow of Francis Broggan, late a corporal, Ordnance Corps, United States Army. Approved, July 1, 1898. July 1,18U. CHAP. 55'I.—An Act Granting a pension to John A. Bingham. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United i {g::,!; B*¤¤'·¤¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ' Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of John A. Bingham, major and judge-advocate of volunteers, on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, and pay him a pension at the rate of twenty-tive dollars per month. Approved, July 1, 1898. July 1. 1898- CHAP. 558.-An Act Granting an increase of pension to George H. Givens. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United egxemeivm. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P ‘“‘*"°'°“°°‘ 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 George H. Givens, who served in the Mexican war in Company D, First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a plpnsion at the rate of eighteen dollars per month in lieu of any pension t at he is now receiving. Approved, July 1, 1898. July 1_ ,m_ CHAP. 559.——An Act Granting an increase of pension to William L. Smithson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Willhm L- Smith- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ‘°}'$;,,,,;.,,, ,,,.,,.,,,,,.,d_ 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 William L. Smithson, late of Company D, Fifth Tennessee Volunteers, Mexican war, and pay him a pension at the rate of twenty-four dollars per month, in lieu of that he is now receiving. Approved, July 1, 1898. July 1.1.898. 560.y—An Act To amend "An Act for the correction of the military record v-——····——·· pégllxlhelm Spiegelburg,” approved July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United wmieim Spiegel- States of America in Congress assembled, That the •*Act for the correcbugimry mom M_ tion of the military record of Wilhelm Spiegelburg," approved July regs;-127 m tu cnty-first, eighteen hundred and mnety-two, be amended so as to ° *P" ‘ read : “That the Secretary of War bc, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to revolge the order of discharge in Special Orders, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, dated October twentysixth, Pa d mawmm eighteen l1uu¢h·ed and sixty-four, of Wilhelm Spiegelburg, and to dis- ’ “” ‘ charge hun, to date May lirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; and the