THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 55.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 12, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
Mr. Boyd, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill:
A BILL
To amend an act, entitled “An act to raise for a limited time
and additional military force, and for other purposes,” approved
February eleven, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled
, That the above entitled act shall not be so con-
strued as to deprive the non-commissioned officers, musi-
cians, and privates, therein named, of the bounty land or
scrip secured to them, in consequence of their promotion
to a company, field, or staff office, or appointment either
in the corps to which they may belong, or in any other
corps of the army; but that, on the contrary, such promotion
shall be held and considered as equivalent to an honora-
ble discharge in adjudicating upon their right to such
bounty land or scrip.

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