Chapter 64.
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CHAP. 64.— AN ACT to authorize the restoration of George A. Armes to the rank of captainApril 23, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,George A. Armes may be restored to rank and grade in Army. 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 George A, Armes; 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 George A.
Armes, late captain in the Tenth United States Cavalry Regiment, to the same grade and rank of captain held by him on June seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, in any vacancy occurring in the grade of captain in said regiment: *Provided however*, That no pay, compensation, or allowance whatever shall over be. given to said Armes for the time between June seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the date of appointment hereunder: *And provided further*, That the acceptance of any benefit under this act by said George A.
Armes shall be taken and construed to be by his 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, April 23, 1878.