Chapter 310. affirming the action of the President of the United States in annulling and revoking an order dismissing Martin H
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CHAP. 310.— An Act affirming the action of the President of the United States in annulling and revoking an order dismissing Martin H. McChesney from service in the Armies of the United States, and honorably discharging said McChesney from said service.Feb. 28, 1887. Whereas, Martin H. McChesney, late a captain in the Second RegimentPreamble.Marlin H. McChesney. New York Volunteer Mounted Rifles, was by an order from the War Department erroneously and improperly dismissed from the service of the Government for absence without leave, when the said McChesney, was and had been for many months prior thereto, a prisoner of war in the hands of the enemy; and Whereas by reason of his erroneous and improper dismissal as aforesaid the said McChesney is, under the rulings and decisions of the accounting officers of the Government, deprived of certain pay and allowances to which he would otherwise have been entitled by reason of his services:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Granted honorable discharge.Payment to., That the action of the President of the United States in revoking and annulling said order of dismissal, and honorably discharging said officer from the service as of date of March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be, and the same is hereby, affirmed; and the accounting officers of the Government are hereby authorized and directed, in the settlement of the accounts of the said McChesney, to pay to him the same pay and allowances that he would have been entitled to receive had no such order of dismissal been issued as aforesaid in his case.
Approved, February 28, 1887.