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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · Feb. 28, 1887 · Chapter 287

Chapter 287. to effect a rearrangement of grades of office in the Adjutant-General’s Department of the Army

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CHAP. 287.— An Act to effect a rearrangement of grades of office in the Adjutant-General’s Department of the Army.Feb. 28, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Adjutant-general’s Department, Army.Grade of officers rearranged. That the Adjutant-General’s Department of the Army shall consist of one Adjutant-General, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of brigadier-general; four assistant adjutants-general, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of colonel; six assistant adjutants general, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of lieutenant-colonel; and six assistant adjutants-general, with the rank, pay, and [R.
S., sec. 1128, p. 206, amended](/us/rs/t/s1128/p206).emoluments of major: *Provided*, That the vacancies in the grade of colonel and lieutenant-colonel created by this act shall be filled by the promotion by seniority of the officers now in the Adjutant-General’s Department. Approved, February 28, 1887.
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