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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 30 STAT. · July 7, 1898 · Chapter 582

Chapter 582. To increase the force of the Ordnance Department

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Chap. 582: To increase the force of the Ordnance Department. Chapter 582 30 Stat. 720 1898-07-07 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 2 30 public chap. 582.— An Act To increase the force of the Ordnance Department. July 7, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section five of an ActArmy.Ordnance Department.Increase of officers.Vol. 18, p. 245, amended. entitled “An Act reorganizing the several staff corps of the Army,” approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 5. The Ordnance Department shall consist of one Chief of Ordnance, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a brigadier-general; four colonels, five lieutenant-colonels, twelve majors, twenty-four captains, twenty first lieutenants. “A chief ordnance officer may be assigned to the staff of an army orAssignments to staff of corps and division commanders. a corps commander, and while so assigned shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a lieutenant-colonel. A chief ordnance officer may be assigned to the staff of a division commander, and while so assigned shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a major.
” " Approved, July 7, 1898.
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