UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
  Act of April  19, 1908, amended by Act of September 8, 1916

      IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that in conformity with the laws 

   of the United States_ HIGHLY PERKINS, Widow of JOSHUA PERKINS,

   who was a Private, Co. E. 53rd Regiment Kentucky Infantry, is
 
   entitled to a pension a the rate of Twenty-five dollars per 

   month, to commence March 30, 1920 and Thirty Dollars per 

   month from May 1, 1920 and to continue during her

   widowhood.                                           

                      GIVEN AT THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
                     this twenty-sixth day of July 
                     one-thousand nine hundred and twenty 
                     and of the Independence of the United States  
                       of America the one hundred and forty-fifth.

                                                                       /s/ John Armstrong
                                                Secretary of the Interior