Private Law 64–421

That Matthew C. Butler, junior, deceased, who was a major in the Sixth Regiment, United States Cavalry, and who was nominated by the President for appointment as lieutenant colonel of Cavalry, to rank from the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, said nomination being confirmed by the Senate before the death of said Butler, which occurred on the twentieth day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, before the issue to him of a commission evidencing his advancement, shall hereafter be held and considered to have become a lieutenant colonel of Cavalry in the service of the United States on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and to have held that office until the

Issue of commission.

date of his death; and the President is hereby authorized to issue a commission as lieutenant colonel of Cavalry in the name of Matthew C. Butler, junior, with rank to date from July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.