Volume 24
Public Law 49–2
for the relief of graduates of the United States Military Academy, and to fix their pay.
Approved December 20, 1886
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of graduates of the United States Military Academy, and to fix their pay.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That every cadet who has heretofore graduated or may hereafter graduate at the West Point Military Academy, and who has been or may hereafter be commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States, under the laws appointing such graduates to the Army, shall be allowed full pay as second lieutenant
To receive pay as second lieutenants from graduation.
from the date of his graduation to the date of his acceptance of and qualification under his commission and during his graduation leave, in accordance with the uniform practice which has prevailed since the establishment of the Military Academy.
Approved, December 20, 1886.