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Regiment: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry
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Navy
No. 3667 Original
United States America
Department of the Interior
Bureau Of Pensions
It is hereby certified that in conformity with the laws
of the United States Eliza Chesterfield
mother of Richard Chesterfield who was
a Seaman U.S.S. “Mound City” is entitled
to a pension at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to
commence on the Thirty-first day of October 1882
and twelve dollars per month from March 19″ 1886
and to continue during dependence unless she shall again marry
Given at the Department of the Interior this
Seventeenth day of January
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight
and of the Independence of the United States
of America the one hundred and twelfth
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Countersigned acting Secretary of the Interior.
John C Black
Commissioner of Pensions.
Navy
No. 3667
Pension Certificate of
Eliza Chesterfield
Payable Quarterly
on the
4th of March, June, September & Decmeber,
of each year, bu the
U.S. Pension Agent
at Chicago
Ills.
Transferred to
agency,
from
commissioner.
Transferred to
agency,
from
commissioner.
Note-No sale, or transer of any kind, of the
whole or any part of the Pension payable by
virtue of this Certificate is of any legal or
binding force against either the Pensioner
or the United States.
Reagan
Clerk
That section forty-seven hundred and forty-five, title fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 4745.-Any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension which has been, or may hereafter be, granted, shall be void and of no effect, and any person who shall pledge, or receive as a pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension, or pension certificate which has been, or may hereafter be granted or issued, or who shall hold the same as collateral security for any debt, or promise, or upon any pretext of such security, or promise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution; and any person who shall retain the certificate of a pensioner and refuse to surrender the same upon the demand of the commissioner of Pensions, or a United States pension agent or any other person, authorized by the Commissioner of Pensions, or the pensioner, to receive the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of the prosecution.
Approved February 28, 1883.
