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Private Law 54–54
For the relief of Stratton H. Benscoter.
Approved January 16, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of Stratton H. Benscoter.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War is hereby empowered and directed to revoke the order approving the proceedings, findings, and sentence of the general court-martial at Fort Smith, Arkansas, dishonorably discharging Stratton H. Benscoter, late private in Company I, Ninth Regiment Iowa Cavalry, from the service FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 54–57. 1897. with loss of pay and confinement in the penitentiary, and to grant him an honorable discharge from the said service, said discharge to date December fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Received by the President, .