Chapter 331. Amending the Act of June eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to appoint an officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps to perform the duties of solicitor and judge-advocate-general, and so forth, and to fix the rank and pay of such officer,” and tor other pur
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CHAP. 331.— An Act Amending the Act of June eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to appoint an officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps to perform the duties of solicitor and judge-advocate-general, and so forth, and to fix the rank and pay of such officer,” and tor other purposes. June 5, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Act “to authorize theNavy.Pay of judge-advocate general increased.Vol. 21, p. 164.
President to appoint an officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps to perform the duties of solicitor and judge-advocate general, and so forth, and to fix the rank and pay of such officer,” approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty, is hereby amended by inserting in said Act in lieu of the words “with the rank, pay, and allowances of a captain in the Navy, or a colonel in the Marine Corps, as the case may be,” the words “with the rank and highest pay of a captain the Navy, or the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel in the Marine Corps, as the case may be:” *Provided*, That this amendment shall take*Proviso*.To date back. effect from July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the date on which the present incumbent entered on duty, and that the amount herein appropriated shall be payable from the appropriation “Fay of the Navy.
” Received by the President, May 25, 1896. [Note by the Department of State.— The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]