Chapter 114.
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CHAP. 114.— An act for the relief of Edwin R Clarke March 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, E. R. Clarke. That the provisions of law regulating appointments in the Army by promotion in the line are hereby suspended for the purposes of this act, and only so far as they affect Restoration to Army.Edwin R. Clarke; and the President can, if he so desire, in the exercise of his own discretion and judgment, nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint said Edwin R Clarke, late second lieutenant of the Tenth Regiment of United States Infantry, to the same grade and rank of second lieutenant held by him on the twelfth day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six. in any vacancy occurring in the grade of second lieutenant in said regiment: *Proviso*.*Provided, however,* That no pay, compensation, or allowance whatever shall ever be given to said Clarke for the time between said twelfth day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and the date of *Proviso*.the appointment hereunder: *And provided further,* That the acceptance of any benefit under this act by said Edwin R.
Clarke shall be taken and construed to be, by Iris election, a bar to any claim for pay or allowances from the date of his discharge to his acceptance of a commission, if one be granted him under the provisions of this act. Approved, March 1, 1879.