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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 22 STAT. · Dec. 18, 1882 · Chapter 2

Chapter 2.

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CHAP. 2.— An act for the relief of Daniel T. Wells.Dec. 18, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Daniel T. Wells.Relief of. That all payments made by the paymasters of the Army to Daniel T. Wells as second lieutenant in the First Michigan Volunteer Cavalry for service as second lieutenant in said regiment from the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and as first lieutenant in the same regiment after the fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, are hereby legalized, and shall be in all respects as valid as if said Wells had been duly commissioned and mustered in said grades at the times mentioned; but no payment in excess of the proper pay and allowances of said grades shall be legalized by this act.
Approved, December 18, 1882.
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