Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 782.
(Report No. 86.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 13, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Venable, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Cornelius Hughes.

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10 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he
is hereby, directed to place the name of Cornelius Hughes,
a soldier in Captain Powell’s company of Tennessee vol-
unteers, in eighteen hundred and fourteen, on the roll of
invalid pensioners, and to pay him a pension, at the rate
of six dollars per month, to commence on the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and forty eight, and continue
during his natural life.