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Volume 28 · 994

Private Law 53–185

For the relief of William B. Chapman, George W. Street, John W. Hoes, Emmet C. Tuthill, and Joseph H. Curtis.

Approved August 1, 1894

Statutory text

An Act

For the relief of William B. Chapman, George W. Street, John W. Hoes, Emmet C. Tuthill, and Joseph H. Curtis.

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

That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to revoke so much of Special Orders numbered two hundred and twenty-nine, Headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina, dated August twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as dismissed First Lieutenant William B. Chapman, First Lieutenant George W. Street, First Lieutenant John W. Hoes, First Lieutenant Emmet O. Tuthill, and First Lieutenant Joseph H. Curtis, Third New York Infantry Volunteers, from the service of the United States, and to issue to each of these officers a certificate of honorable discharge as of the date of the order of

Proviso.

No additional pay, etc.

dismissal: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to allow to any officer named therein, or his heirs, any pay or allowances to which said officer would not have been entitled if he had been honorably discharged on August twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

Approved, August 1, 1894.

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