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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · June 30, 1879 · Chapter 57

Chapter 57. providing for filling vacancies in the Office of Chief of Engineers, United States Army

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CHAP. 57.— An Act providing for filling vacancies in the Office of Chief of Engineers, United States Army.June 30, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Military service. That so much of the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter four hundred and twenty-six, volume seventeen, page three hundred and eighty-two, Statutes at Large, as prohibits promotion in the Corps of Engineers abovePromotions in Engineer Corps. the rank of colonel, and all other acts prohibiting said promotion, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, June 30, 1879.
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