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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · December 18, 1878 · Chapter 6

Chapter 6.

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CHAP. 6.— AN ACT for the relief of Andrew MuckleDec. 18, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,A. Muckle.Honorable discharge. That the Adjutant General of the Army be and he is hereby authorized and directed to remove any charge of desertion which may stand on his records against Andrew Muckle, late a private in Company “F” of the Fifteenth Regiment of Michigan Infantry Volunteers and to forthwith grant him an honorable discharge.
Sec. 2. The Commissioner of the General Land Office is herebyHomestead entry. authorized and directed to extend the time for proving up of the homestead entry of the said Andrew Muckle number 4745 made at the United States Land Office then at Traverse City, Michigan, on the second day of January anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-two on the north fractional half of the southwest fractional quarter of section eighteen in township thirty-one north of range, seven west, for one year from the second day of January anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Approved, December 18, 1878.
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