Chapter 62. to provide for the permanent preservation and custody of the records of the volunteer armies, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 62.— An Act to provide for the permanent preservation and custody of the records of the volunteer armies, and for other purposes.May 9, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Record and Pension That the division Office, War Department, established.organized by the Secretary of War in his office for the. preservation and custody of the records of the volunteer armies under the name of the record and pension division is hereby established as now organized, and shall hereafter be known as the Record and Pension Office of the War Department; and the President is hereby authorized to select an officerAppointment of chief of office. of the Army whom he may consider to be especially well qualified for the performance of the duties hereinafter specified and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint him in the Army to be chief of said office, who shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel and shall, under the Secretary of War, have charge of theDuties. military and hospital records of the volunteer armies and the pension and other business of the War Department connected therewith: and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the terms of this act are hereby repealed.
Approved, May 9, 1892.