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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · October 19, 1888 · Chapter 1208

Chapter 1208.

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CHAP. 1208.— An act authorizing the President to appoint and retire Alfred Pleasonton, with the rank and grade of major.October 19, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alfred Pleasonton.President may appoint, major on retired list of the Army. That the laws regulating appointments in the Army be, and they are hereby, suspended, and suspended only for the purpose of this act, and the President is hereby authorized to nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint Alfred Pleasonton, late a major-general of volunteers in the Army of the United States, a major, and thereupon to place him the said Alfred Pleasonton, upon the retired-list of the Army with the rank and grade of major without regard and in addition to the number now authorized by law of said retired-list: *Proviso*.Pension.*Provided*, That from and after the passage of this act no pension shall be paid to the said Alfred Pleasonton, but this proviso shall be no bar to any claim for pension that the widow or children or heirs of the said Alfred Pleasonton may have after his decease.
Approved, October 19, 1888. Chapter 1209: to constitute Lincoln, Nebraska, a port of delivery, and to extend the provisions of the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes” to the said port of Lincoln. Chapter 1209 25 Stat. 565 1888-10-19 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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