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Volume 30 · 1489

Private Law 55–648

To authorize the President to restore Major Joseph W. Wham, paymaster, United States Army, to duty, his former rank, and status in the United States Army.

Approved July 8, 1898

Statutory text

An Act

To authorize the President to restore Major Joseph W. Wham, paymaster, United States Army, to duty, his former rank, and status in the United States Army.

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

That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to revoke the order of the President

Maj. Joseph W. Wham.

Restored to duty, etc.

approving the proceedings of the general court-martial which sentenced Major J. W. Wham, Paymaster United States Army, to be dismissed the service, and mitigating the sentence to suspension on half pay from rank, duty, and all privileges until January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, his name to be placed at the foot of the lists of majors in the pay department, and to disapprove the sentence of dismissal of Major Joseph W. Wham, Paymaster United States Army, and to restore him to duty, previous rank, and status in the United States Army, and full pay from and after the passage of this Act.

Approved, .

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