Chapter LII. *to amend the Act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sir, for establishing Rules and Articles for the Government of the Armies of the United States.* March 1, 1869. 1806, ch. 20
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Chap. LII.— An Act *to amend the Act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sir, for establishing Rules and Articles for the Government of the Armies of the United States.* March 1, 1869. 1806, ch. 20. Vol ii. p. 366. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sta t es of America in Congress assembled,* That the sixty-first article of Repeal of provision as to rank of brevets.“An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States,” approved April the tenth, eighteen hundred and six, be, and is hereby, repealed.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the passage of Commissions by brevet when and for what to be conferred and to bear what date.this act commissions by brevet shall only be conferred in time of war, and for distinguished conduct and public service in presence of the enemy. And all brevet commissions shall bear date from the particular action or service for which the officer was brevetted. Approved, March 1, 1869.