Chapter 690. for the relief of certain volunteer soldiers
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CHAP. 690.— An Act for the relief of certain volunteer soldiers.July 20, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Bounties to soldiers enlisting in 1861.Time limit of muster repealed.Vol. 17, p. 55. That the act entitled “Au act in relation to bounties,” approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. be amended by striking out the words “before August sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one”: and said act, as hereby amended, shall have full force and effect from April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
Sec. 2. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, andClaims to be reconsidered. they are hereby, authorized and directed to reconsider the claims of all soldiers and their heirs who may have been denied the bounty of one hundred dollars granted by the act of April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. under any construction of said act which FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 690– 692. 1888.339 has since been modified or rescinded, and such claims shall, if found correct and just, be allowed and paid, provided the soldiers were enrolled or enlisted for three years prior to July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, under the proclamation of the President of the United States of May third, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. and theVol. 12. p. 1260. orders of the War Department issued in pursuance thereof, and were actually mustered into the service of the United States and honorably discharged.
Approved, July 20, 1888.