Volume 21
Public Law 46–57
providing for filling vacancies in the Office of Chief of Engineers, United States Army.
Approved June 30, 1879
Statutory text
An Act
providing for filling vacancies in the Office of Chief of Engineers, United States Army.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That so much of the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter four hundred and twenty-six, volume seventeen, page three hundred and eighty-two, Statutes at Large, as prohibits promotion in the Corps of Engineers above
Promotions in Engineer Corps.
the rank of colonel, and all other acts prohibiting said promotion, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, June 30, 1879.