Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Catharine Hoffman, of Baltimore, State of Maryland, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel William Hoffman, on the roll of invalid pensions, and pay to her the sum of twenty dollars per month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and to continue during her natural life.

Approved, August 7, 1848.