Text reads, "I certify that Mary Williams, widow of Daniel Williams who was a ___ of Captain Riggens Company Ind. Militia in the service of the United States, is entitled, under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved February 14, 1874, to receive pay at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and to continue during, life, unless she shall again marry, in which case the pension is not payable after the date of such marriage.

Given at the Department of the Interior, this 25th day of April, thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. (signed)
Actg. Secretary of the Interior.

Countersigned. Commissioner of Pensions."

Courtesy of Friends of Old Redding