Chapter CDXLIX. for the Relief of David L
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CHAP. CDXLIX.— An Act for the Relief of David L. Wright, late Captain of Company E, fifty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteers. June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of thePayment to David L. Wright. Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money appropriated or hereafter to be appropriated for the payment of the army, to David L. Wright, late captain in the fifty-first regiment of Indiana volunteers, the pay and emoluments of a captain of infantry from the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the date of his commission, to the fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, the date of his discharge as a returned prisoner of war, as if sail David L.
Wright had been mustered as captain on the date of his commission, first deducting whatever sum may have been paid said David L. Wright as lieutenant during the period for which pay is hereby allowed as captain. Approved, June 10, 1872.