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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · June 18, 1878 · Chapter 274

Chapter 274. for the relief of John EatonJune 18, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John Eaton

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CHAP. 274.— An Act for the relief of John EatonJune 18, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John Eaton.Military record corrected. That John Eaton, late a private in Company K of the Eighteenth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, who from such service deserted June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be fully restored, and that he stand as having been honorably discharged or mustered out of the military service of the United States on the said twenty-fifth day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and shall be entitled to the same pay, bounties, and benefits as if he, on the said twenty-filth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, had been lawfully discharged or mustered out of the said military service of the United States.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of War shall issue an honorable discharge fromHonorable discharge to issue. the said military service to the said John Eaton as of twenty-fifth day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Approved, June 18, 1878.
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