Chapter CCCLI. to authorize an Appointment in the Inspector-General’s Department
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CHAP. CCCLI.— An Act to authorize an Appointment in the Inspector-General’s Department.June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the President be, andNelson H. Davis to be appointed to place in inspector-general’s department. hereby is, authorized to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint, Nelson H. Davis, of the inspector-general’s department, to the rank and place therein to which he is entitled, and which he would have held had the law of promotions by seniority under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and the1851, ch. 33.Vol. ix. p. 618. army regulations of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, been carried out: *Provided,* That no officer in said department shall, by this act, be reducedNo officer to be reduced hereby, nor pay, &c., given, except, &c.No promotion to, until, &c. from his present grade, nor shall any pay or allowance be made to any officer under it, except from the date of his confirmation: *And provided further,* That no promotion to the grade of inspector-general shall hereafter be made until the number of inspectors-general is reduced to four.
Approved, June 8, 1872.