Chapter CLXXXI. to extend the Benefits of Section four of an Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five
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CHAP. CLXXXI.— An Act to extend the Benefits of Section four of an Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.July 13, 1866.1865, ch. 81, § 4.Vol. xiii. p. 497. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section four of an act entitledThree months’ pay to officers of volunteers below the rank of brigadier-general.
“An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,” be to construed as to entitle to the three months’ pay proper, provided for therein, all officers of volunteers below the rank of brigadier-general who were in service on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and whose resignations were presented and accepted, or who were mustered out at their own request, or otherwise honorably discharged from the service after the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Approved, July 13, 1866.