Volume 29
Public Law 54–234
To provide for appointment by brevet of active or retired officers of the United States Army.
Approved February 16, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for appointment by brevet of active or retired officers of the United States Army.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all officers of the Regular
Army.
Officers may receive brevet for highest volunteer rank.
Army of the United States, active or retired, who served in the volunteer forces during the late war, may, at the discretion of the President, receive a brevet in the Regular Army equal to the highest rank held or the highest brevet received in the said volunteer forces and be commissioned accordingly as of the date of such brevet: Provided, That they have not already received a brevet of equal or higher grade in the Regular Army.
Received by the President, February 4, 1897.