Chapter 173.
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CHAP. 173.—An act for the relief of Lewis A. Kent. *Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Lewis A. Kent, pay and pension. That Lewis A. Kent, late captain of Company G, Sixth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, who was mustered as such captain to date July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall be taken and deemed to have been mustered as such captain as of the. seventh day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, that being the day when he was assigned to and from which he continuously discharged the duties of such office, and shall be- recog-nized and treated by all the departments of the government of the United States as a captain mustered at said last-named date, and doing duty as such from that date until his final muster out of service; and there is hereby granted and awarded to him all the right of pay and pension that he would have been entitled to had he been in tact so mustered, and performed duty and incurred disability while holding such rank; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury,Appropriation. such sum as may be sufficient to meet the requirements of this act.
Approved, March 3, 1881.