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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · June 23, 1870 · Chapter CLIX

Chapter CLIX. for the Relief of J

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CHAP. CLIX.— An Act for the Relief of J. Allen Porter.June 23, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be paid to J. AllenPayment to J. Allen Porter. Porter, sole heir of the late William L. Porter, lieutenant fifth United States cavalry, the pay of an assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, from November ten, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the date of his muster-out as first lieutenant fifty-sixth Ohio volunteers, to May one, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, the date of his appointment as captain and assistant adjutant-general of volunteers; he having been on duty at head-quarters Department of the Cumberland during such interval in that capacity.
Approved, June 23, 1870.
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