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 1st Session. ( j No. 329. 
 
 35th Congress, ) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ^ Report 
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 DAVID WATSON. 
 
 [To accompany Bill H. R. No. 535.] 
 
 April 17, 1858. 
 
 Mr. Florence, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the 
 
 following 
 
 REPORT. 
 
 The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom ivas referred the petition 
 of David Watson, of Georgia, asking an invalid pension, report : 
 
 That they have had the same under consideration, and find that the 
 petitioner states that he was mustered into the service of the United 
 States as a private in Captain Charles H. Nelson's company of Colonel 
 Calhoun's regiment of Greorgia volunteers, for during the then existing 
 war with Mexico ; that, while in the line of his duty in the service, 
 he was attacked with diarrhea, which has continued until the present 
 time, disabling him, in part, from obtaining his subsistence by manual 
 labor. 
 
 George W. Anderson, who was a second lieutenant in the same 
 company, swears to the service of the applicant, and also to the disease 
 having been contracted in the line of his duty. 
 
 John Childes and James G. Auston, who were privates in the same 
 company, swear to the facts set forth in the petition of the applicant. 
 
 James D. Rivers, who signs himself '' M. D., graduate of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, surgeon 44th regiment G. M.," swears to 
 the character of the disease with which Watson is afiiicted, although 
 he has no knowledge as to when and where said disease was contracted. 
 
 John A. Moody and Nicholas F. Howard, who are certified to be 
 physicians in good standing, swear that he, Watson, is disabled one- 
 half by reason of said disease. 
 
 All the witnesses are certified to be credible persons. Your com- 
 mittee report a bill granting a pension of four dollars per month from 
 the 15th day of February, 1858. 
 
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