Thirtieth Congress,
thiFirst Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.

That every non-commissioned officer, private, or musician, of the army of the United States, who has been, or who may hereafter, during the continuance of the present war with Mexico, be promoted to the rank of commissioned officer, and who, if such promotion had not taken place, would have been, or may hereafter be entitled to receive from the War Department a certificate or warrant for public land, or treasury scrip in lieu thereof, under the ninth section of the act of which this is an amendment shall, notwithstanding such promotion, be entitled to receive said warrant or certificate, or treasury scrip in lieu thereof, in the same manner as if such promotion had not taken place: Provided, That all the requisites of the ninth section of the act, approved February the eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall have been faithfully complied with: And provided, further, That the provisions of the said ninth section shall be as applicable to land warrants or certificates issued under this act as to those that might be issued in virtue of said ninth section. Provided, further That

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That they shall have been elected or provided after reaching the seat of war.