Chapter 90.
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CHAP. 90.— An act for the payment, to the officers and soldiers of the Mexican war, of the three months’ extra pay provided for by the act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. Feb. 19, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and Ponse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Mexican war.Three months’ extra pay to officers and soldiers. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby, directed, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the officers and soldiers “engaged in the military service of the United States in the war with Mexico, and 1848, ch. 104,[9 Stat., 248](/us/stat/9/248).who served out the time of their engagement or were honorably discharged ”, the three months’ extra pay provided for by the act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the limitations contained in said act, in all cases, upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence that said extra compensation has not been previously received: *Provided,* That the provisions of this act shall include also the officers, petty-officers, seamen, and marines of the United States Navy the Revenue Marine Service and the officers and soldiers of the United States Army employed in the prosecution of said war.
Approved, February 19, 1879.