Pension act

[No. 39.] Joint Resolution Amending section two of joint resolution approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, construing the Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section two of joint resolution approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, be amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. That in the administration of the pension laws any enlisted man or commissioned officer of the Army, including regulars, volunteers, and militia, or any appointed or enlisted man or commissioned officer of the Navy or Marine Corps, who was honorably discharged from any subsequent contract of service entered into by him during the late war of the rebellion, shall be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from all previous contracts of service as commissioned officer or enlisted man previously entered into by him with the United States during said war: Provided, That such enlisted or appointed man or commissioned officer served not less than six months under any subsequent enlistment, appointment, or commission; that his entire service under any said subsequent enlistment, appointment, or commission was faithful, and that he did not receive by reason of said enlistment, appointment, or commission any bounty or gratuity other than from the United States in excess of that to which he would have been entitled if he had continued to serve faithfully until honorably discharged under any contract or service previously entered into by him, either in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, during the war of the rebellion."

Approved, June 28, 1906.