Volume 29 · 8
Public Law 54–22
To amend section thirteen hundred and nine, Revised Statutes, providing a chaplain for the Military Academy.
Approved February 18, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To amend section thirteen hundred and nine, Revised Statutes, providing a chaplain for the Military Academy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That so much of section thirteen hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States as provides for the appointment at the United States Military Academy at West Point of “one chaplain, who shall also be professor of history, geography, and ethics, and one assistant professor of the same, ” is hereby
Proviso.
Chaplain to be appointed.
Term, pay, etc.
repealed, Provided, That the duties of Chaplain at the Military Academy shall hereafter be performed by a clergyman to be appointed by the President for a term of four years, and the said chaplain shall be eligible for reappointment for an additional term or terms and shall, while so serving, receive the same pay and allowances as are now allowed to a captain mounted.
Approved, .