Chapter CCLXXIX. to authorize the Appointment of certain Officers in the Quartermaster’s Department
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CHAP. CCLXXIX.— An Act to authorize the Appointment of certain Officers in the Quartermaster’s Department.June 3, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the President be, andCertain officers may be appointed in the quartermaster’s department of the army, &c.1866, ch. 299, § 13.Vol. xiv. p. 334.No officer to be reduced from present grade. hereby is, authorized to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint, certain officers of the quartermaster’s department to the grade they would have held in said department, respectively, had the vacancies created therein by the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, from the rank of major to the rank of colonel, both inclusive, been filled by promotion by seniority: *Provided,* That no officer shall be deprived of his relative rank or reduced from his present grade by this act, and that the officers whose appointments are herein authorized shall take rank and receive pay only from the date of their confirmation.
Approved, June 3, 1872.