Chapter 128. for the relief of Robert H
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CHAP. 128.— An Act for the relief of Robert H. Montgomery.June 22, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Robert H. Montgomery.To be credited for pay, etc., while prisoner of war. That Robert II. Montgomery, major of cavalry, United States Army, shall be entitled to credit, for the pay and allowances he received for the period of time from the nineteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to the sixteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, during which time he was a prisoner of war in the hands of the enemy, the same as though he had actually been in the military service of the United States as a second lieutenant of cavalry during that period, and the judgment of the United States Court of Claims in the case of Robert H.
Montgomery versus The United States, rendered on the seventh day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, against the said Robert H. Montgomery for the sum of one thousand six hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents, upon a counter-claim presented by the United States, said sum having been received by the said Robert H. Montgomery as pay for the period during which he was, as hereinbefore stated, a prisoner of war, be, and the same is hereby, remitted, and the said Robert H.
Montgomery is here-by discharged from all obligations to pay said judgment. Approved, June 22, 1892.