Chapter 72. for the relief of Medical Director John Thornley, United States Navy
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CHAP. 72.— An Act for the relief of Medical Director John Thornley, United States Navy.Apr. 7, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John Thornley placed on retired list of the Navy as a surgeon. That Medical Director John Thornley, United States Navy, be considered as having been retired from active service as a surgeon, and placed on the retired list of officers of the Navy, June first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, on account of physical incapacity originating in the line of duty; and that the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to allow him the rate of retired pay of the grade in which he was retired prescribed by section fifteen hundred and eighty-eight Revised Statutes,[R.
S. 1588, 271](/us/rs/t/s1588/271).Payment. for officers so retired; and the said accounting officers are hereby furtherAppropriation. authorized and directed, in adjusting the account of said John Thornley, to allow’ and pay to him the difference between the pay he has been allowed as a surgeon on the retired list since the passage of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three (section fifteen hundred and eighty-eight, Revised Statutes), and that to which lie is entitled under that act as having been retired as a surgeon for incapacity originating in the line of duty; said sum to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 7, 1882.