Chapter 58. authorizing the President to appoint and retire John C
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CHAP. 58.— An Act authorizing the President to appoint and retire John C. Fremont as a major-general in the United States Army.April 19, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John C. Fremont.To be appointed and retired a major-general in the Army. That the laws regulating appointments in the Army of the United States be, and they are hereby, suspended for the purposes of this act; and that in view of the services to his country rendered by John C.
Fremont, now of New York, as explorer, administrator, and soldier, the President is hereby authorized to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint him a major general in the Army of the United States, and thereupon to place him on the retired list of Pay and emoluments.the Army with the pay and emoluments of a retired officer with the rank of a major-general, without regard and in addition to the retired list now authorized by law. Approved, April 19, 1890.