Chapter 650. for the relief of certain officers and enlisted men of the First Kansas Colored Volunteers
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CHAP. 650.— An Act for the relief of certain officers and enlisted men of the First Kansas Colored Volunteers.March 3, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,First Kansas Colored Volunteers. That all officers of the First Kansas Colored Volunteers who were mustered into the Date of muster.service of the United States on or before the second day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall take rank and be entitled to nay from the date when they respectively held and performed the duties of their rank in said regiment, or in the companies or battalions of which said regiment was composed, of a rank equal to the rank they respectively held when mustered into the service of the United States in said regiment.
Sec. 2. That Captain Andrew I. Crew, Corporal Joseph Talbot,Rank, etc., to those killed at Island Mound, Mo. Privates Marion Barber, Samuel Davis, Henry Gash, Thomas Lane, Allen Rhodes, and John Sixkiller, who were killed in action at Island Mound, Missouri, October twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty- two, whilst on duty with the companies and battalions of which said regiment was subsequently composed, shall be entitled to the rank, pay, and emoluments conferred by section one of this act.
Sec. 3. That Privates Edward Curtis, Jacob Edwards, LazarusPension rights to wounded. Johnson, General Dudley, Manuel Dobson, and Thomas Knight, of said companies and battalions, who were wounded in action at Island Mound, Missouri, October twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty- two, but were not mustered into the United States service, shall be entitled to all rights, privileges, and benefits conferred upon wounded or disabled soldiers by the provisions of the United States pension laws.
Sec. 4. That in computing the pay and allowances to which personsDeductions of pay already received. may be entitled under the provisions of this act, any pay and allowances winch such parties may have received from the United States for services rendered during the period of time included within the provisions of this act, in any other grade or capacity, shall be deducted from the amount that'may be due them under the provisions of this act. Approved, March 3, 1891.