Chapter 86.
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CHAP. 86.— AN ACT for the relief of James Clift, late captain Fifth Tennessee Cavalry.Feb. 15, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James Clift.Payment of claim. That the Paymaster-General of the United States Army be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to James Clift, late a captain in the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the full amount of pay and emoluments as a first lieutenant of cavalry commanding company, from the nineteenth day of September eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the date of his commission as captain of a company of Mounted Guards from Andrew Johnson, military-governor of Tennessee, to the twenty- sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the date of his muster into the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, the same being for actual services rendered in the field.
Approved, February 15, 1879.