Chapter 481.
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CHAP. 481.— An act for the relief of Newton C. Redenour.March 2, 1889. Whereas, by an error committed by the adjudicating officers of thePreamble. Pension Bureau Newton C. Ridenour, late second lieutenant Company F, Twenty-third Regiment Iowa Infantry, was not placed on the pension-roll as a second lieutenant upon the allowance of a pension to him; and 1327 Whereas by act of Congress a bill was passed for his relief in this regard, and to rate him in accordance with said rank and with the intention only of correcting this error, but which contained the wordsVol. 23, p. 531. that it should be in lieu of all other pensions and Whereas he now claims to be entitled to an increase of pension on account of disabilities, for which he was originally pensioned, and to pension for additional disabilities, but the Pension Bureau and the Department of the Interior construe the language quoted of the act of Congress mentioned as barring his rights thereto, regardless of the merits:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Newton C. Ridenour. Rank corrected. That said act of Congress for the relief of said Newton C. Ridenour shall be construed as only correcting the error of the adjudicating officers of the Pension Bureau as to the rank of said Ridenour and his proper rating by reason thereof, and that his right to increase of pension and to additional pension for other disabilities shall not be affected thereby.
Approved, March 2, 1889.