Chapter 238.
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CHAP. 238.— An act to transfer officers on the retired list of the Army from the limited list to the unlimited.February 16, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Retired list of the Army. Transfer of aged officers from limited to unlimited list. Vol. 30, p. 150, amended. That when officers who have been placed on the limited retired list as established by section seven, chapter two hundred and sixty-three, page one hundred and fifty, volume twenty, United States Statutes at Large, shall have attained the age of sixty-four years they shall be transferred from said limited retired list to the unlimited list of officers retired by operation of law because of having attained said age of sixty-four years.
And the limited retired list shall hereafter consist of threeLimited retired list decreased. hundred and fifty instead of four hundred, as now fixed by law: *Provided*, That officers who have been placed on the retired list by*Proviso*. special authority of Congress shall not form part of the limited retiredSpecial retirements. list established by this act. Approved, February 16, 1891.