[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 345 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 345

To authorize the President to issue a posthumous Army commission in the 
 grade of captain in the Chaplains Corps to Ella E. Gibson, who served 
as chaplain of the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery regiment during the 
                               Civil War.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 1999

   Mr. Bartlett of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the President to issue a posthumous Army commission in the 
 grade of captain in the Chaplains Corps to Ella E. Gibson, who served 
as chaplain of the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery regiment during the 
                               Civil War.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President is authorized and requested to posthumously appoint 
Ella E. Gibson to the grade of captain in the Chaplains Corps of the 
Army, the commission to issue as of the date of her appointment as 
chaplain to the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery regiment during the 
Civil War and to be considered to have been in effect during the time 
during which she faithfully performed the services of a chaplain to 
that regiment and for which Congress by law (Private Resolution 31 of 
the 40th Congress, approved March 3, 1869) previously provided for her 
to be paid the full pay and emoluments of a chaplain in the United 
States Army as if she had been regularly commissioned and mustered into 
service.
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