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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · July 26, 1886 · Chapter 787

Chapter 787. for the relief of Ernest H

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CHAP. 787.— An Act for the relief of Ernest H. Wardwell.July 26, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Ernest H. Wardwell.Payment of back-pay to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Ernest H. Wardwell, of Garrett County, Maryland, late a captain and assistant quartermaster of United States volunteers, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the pay and allowances of a captain and assistant quartermaster in the United States Army from the eleventh day of March to the eighteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; and also the three month’s additional pay proper as first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of the Second Regiment North Carolina Union Volunteers (white), the same as allowed to all volunteer officers under the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Approved, July 26, 1886.
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