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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · March 3, 1873 · Chapter CCXLVIII

Chapter CCXLVIII. authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish a duplicate Certificate of Discharge where the same has been lost

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CHAP. CCXLVIII.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish a duplicate Certificate of Discharge where the same has been lost.March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatDuplicate certificates of discharges to be furnished soldiers, &c., and marked as duplicate; whenever satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the War Department that any noncommis-sioned officer or private soldier who served in the army of the United States in the late war against the rebellion has lost his certificate of discharge, or tite same has been destroyed without his privity or procurement, the Secretary of War shall be authorized to furnish, on request, to such non-commissioned otlicer or private, a duplicate of such certificate of discharge, to be indelibly marked, so that it may be known as a duplicate:not to be vouchers, or evidence. *Provided,* Such certificate shall not be accepted as a voucher for die payment of any claim against the United States for pay bounty, or other allowance, or as evidence in any other case.
Sec. 2. ThatArmy regulations modified. the army regulations now in force are hereby modified in accordance with the provisions of this act. Approved, March 3, 1873.
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