[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3925 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3925

   To authorize and request a posthumous commission in the Army for 
                       Johnson Chesnut Whittaker.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 1994

 Mr. Clyburn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize and request a posthumous commission in the Army for 
                       Johnson Chesnut Whittaker.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUEST FOR POSTHUMOUS APPOINTMENT AS A COMMISSIONED OFFICER 
              IN THE ARMY.

    The President is authorized and requested to issue, or have issued, 
a posthumous commission in the name of Johnson Chesnut Whittaker of 
South Carolina in the grade of second lieutenant in the regular Army, 
as recompense for the unjust separation of Johnson Chesnut Whittaker 
from the Corps of Cadets of the United States Military Academy and the 
United States Army in the early 1880's.

SEC. 2. BENEFITS.

    Section 1523 of title 10, United States Code, shall apply to a 
commission issued as requested in section 1.

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