Volume 30
Private Law 55–514
To authorize A. E. Bates, Brigadier-General, United States Volunteers, to accept the decoration of “The Legion of Honor” from the President of the French Republic.
Approved March 3, 1899
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize A. E. Bates, Brigadier-General, United States Volunteers, to accept the decoration of “The Legion of Honor” from the President of the French Republic.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That A. E. Bates, Brigadier-General,
A. E. Bates.
May accept decoration from France.
United States Volunteers, be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept from the President of the French Republic, the decoration of “The Legion of Honor” awarded at the conclusion of the Grand Maneuvers at Moulins, France, in September, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.
Approved, March 3, 1899.