Volume 32
Public Law 57–1353
To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish certificates in lieu of lost or destroyed discharges.
Approved July 1, 1902
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish certificates in lieu of lost or destroyed discharges.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That whenever satisfactory
Army.
Lost discharges.
Certificates issued in lieu of.
proof shall be furnished to the War Department that any officer or enlisted man who has been or shall hereafter be honorably discharged from the military service of the United States has lost his certificate of discharge, or the same has been destroyed without his privity or procurement, the Secretary of War shall be authorized to furnish to such officer or enlisted man, or to the widow of such officer or enlisted man, a certificate of such discharge, to be indelibly marked, so that it may be known as a certificate in lieu of a lost or destroyed discharge: Provided, That such certificate shall not be accepted as a voucher for
Proviso.
Not to be accepted as vouchers.
the payment of any claim against the United States for pay, bounty, or other allowance, or as evidence in any other case.
Approved, July 1, 1902.