Chapter 673. for the relief of Andrew T
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CHAP. 673.— An Act for the relief of Andrew T. McReynolds.July 17, 1888. Whereas Andrew T. McReynolds served as a captain of CompanyPreamble. K, Third Dragoons, United States Army, in Mexico, during the war with that Republic, and while acting in squadron with Captain (the late General) Phil Kearney, the usual escort to the General-in-chief, was, on the twentieth day of August, anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-seven, disabled by a grape-shot wound in a charge at the gates of Mexico, by reason whereof he was placed on the pension-roll at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, which pension he continued to receive until the fifteenth day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-one, when he was mustered into the volunteer service as colonel of the First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry (the first volunteer cavalry regiment organized for the late civil war), and served as such until the twenty-second of August, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four, when he received an honorable discharge, during all of which time his said pension was withheld from him, amounting in all to the sum of nine hundred and fifty dollars, no part of which sum has since been received by him:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Andrew T. McReynolds.Retained pension to., That the Commissioner of Pensions be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the said Andrew T. McReynolds the said sum of nine hundred and fifty dollars, taking his receipt therefor in full discharge of said claim. Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Received by the President July 5, 1888. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]