Chapter 421. To correct the military record of Matthew C
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CHAP. 421.— An Act To correct the military record of Matthew C. Butler, junior. August 29, 1916.[[S. 6740](/us/bill/64/s/6740).][[Private, No. 142](/us/pl/64/142).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Matthew C. Butler, jr. Military record corrected. That Matthew C. Butler, junior, deceased, who was a major in the Sixth Regiment, United States Cavalry, and who was nominated by the President for appointment as lieutenant colonel of Cavalry, to rank from the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, said nomination being confirmed by the Senate before the death of said Butler, which occurred on the twentieth day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, before the issue to him of a commission evidencing his advancement, shall hereafter be held and considered to have become a lieutenant colonel of Cavalry in the service of the United States on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and to have held that office until the Issue of commission. date of his death; and the President is hereby authorized to issue a commission as lieutenant colonel of Cavalry in the name of Matthew C.
Butler, junior, with rank to date from July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Approved, August 29, 1916.