Volume 15 · 125
Public Law 40–CLXXXV
declaratory of the Law in Regard to Officers cashiered or dismissed from the Army by the Sentence of a general Court-Martial.
Approved July 20, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
declaratory of the Law in Regard to Officers cashiered or dismissed from the Army by the Sentence of a general Court-Martial.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
Officers of array dismissed by court-martial not to be restored except by reappointment, &c.
no officer of the army of the United States who has been or shall hereafter be cashiered or dismissed from the service by the sentence of a general court-martial, formally approved by the proper reviewing authority, shall ever be restored to the military service except by a reappointment, confirmed by the Senate of the United States.
Approved, .