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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · Dec. 12, 1878 · Chapter 2

Chapter 2.

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CHAP. 2.— An act establishing the rank of the senior inspector-general. Dec. 12, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That from and after the passageInspector-General.Rank of. of this act the rank of the senior inspector-general of the United States army shall be brigadier-general; but no pay or allowances shall be made to said officer other than from the date of appointment under this act: *And provided,* That nothing herein enacted shall authorize any increase in the number or the rank of the other officers of the Inspector-General’s Department as fixed by the first section of the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
Approved, December 12, 1878.
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