Chapter 147. to extend the benefits of section four of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,” approved March third eighteen hundred and sixty-five
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CHAP. 147.— An Act to extend the benefits of section four of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,” approved March third eighteen hundred and sixty-five.July 3, 1884.13 Stat., 497.Three months’ extra pay to heirs, etc. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section four of an act entitled ;iAu act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty five, be so construed as to entitle to the three months’ pay proper provided for therein the heirs or legal representatives of all officers of volunteers specified therein who were killed or who died in the service between the third 67 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Bess. I. CHS. 147, 148, 149. 1884. day of March and the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty five. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury he, and he is hereby, authorizedAppropriation. and directed to pay to the heirs or legal representatives of said officers the sum or sums of money to which they may be found entitled under the provisions of this act; and a sum sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 3, 1884.