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 926 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 310, 321-323. 1887.

Feb. 28, 1887. CHAP. 310. — An act affirming the action of the President of the United States in anuulliug and revoking an order dismissing Martin H. McChesney from service in the Armies of the United States, and honorably discharging said MeChesney from said Service.

Preamble. Whereas, Martin H. McChesney, late a captain in the Second Regiment New York Volunteer Mounted Rides, was by an order from the War Department erroneously and improperly dismissed from the service of the Government for absence without leave, when the said McChesney, was and had been for many months prior thereto, a prisoner of war in the hands of the enemy; and

Whereas by reason of his erroneous and improper dismissal as aforesaid the said McChesney is, under the rulings and decisions of the accounting officers of the Government, deprived of certain pay and allowances to which he would otherwise have been entitled by reason of his services: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United· States of America in Congress assembled, That the action of the President of the United States in revoking and annulling said order of dismissal, and honorably discharging said officer from the service as of date of March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be, and the same is hereby, affirmed; and the accounting officers of the Government are hereby authorized and directed, in the settlement of the accounts of the said McChesney, to pay to him the same pay and allowances that, he would have been entitled to receive had no such order of dismissal been issued as aforesaid in his case.

Approved, February 28, 1887.

Mar. 2, 1887. CHAP. 321. — An act for the relief of Alpheus R. French.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America and in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to increase pension number one hundred and ninety-three thousand three hundred and ninety-one, of Alpheus Robert French, from seventeen dollars per month to forty dollars per month, from and after the passage of this act; it appearing that said pensioner is now seventy-eight years of age and totally disabled for manual labor of any kind by reason thereof, and eight wounds and other disabilities incurred during a long and honorable service in the Army of the United States in the Black Hawk war of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the Florida or Seminole war of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, the Mexican war, and the late war.

Approved, March 2, 1887.

Mar. 2, 1887. CHAP. 322. — An act granting a pension to Thomas G. Polley.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Thomas G. Polley, late of Company D, One hundred and tenth Illinois Volunteers.

Approved, March 2, 1887.

Mar. 2, 1887. CHAP. 323. — An act for the relief of William N. Cunady.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to amend the military record of William