Chapter 8.
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CHAP. 8.— An act authorizing the president to appoint and retire Andrew J, Smith, late colonel of the Seventh United States Cavalry and a major-general of volunteers.December 24, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Andrew J. Smith. May be appointed colonel on the retired list. that the laws regulating appointments in the army be, and they are hereby, suspended, and suspended only for the purposes of this act; and the President is hereby authorized to nominate and, by and with the advice and 639 consent of the Senate, appoint Andrew J.
Smith, late colonel of the Seventh United States cavalry and a major-general of volunteers, a colonel of cavalry in the army of the United States, and thereupon to place him, the said Andrew J. Smith, upon the retired list of the army, with the rank and grade of colonel, without regard and in addition to the number now authorized by law of said retired list. Approved, December 24, 1888.