Chapter 125.
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CHAP. 125.— AN ACT correcting the military record of Wickliffe Cooper, deceased, late major Seventh Cavalry, brevet colonel United States Army.February 17, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Maj. Wickliffe Cooper, deceased.Secretary of War authorized to correct record of War Department relating to. That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to correct so much of the record of the War Department as states that the late Major Wickliffe Cooper, Seventh Cavalry, committed suicide on the eighth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to substitute therefor the following words:
“Died by hand of person or persons unknown, while in the line of his duty as an officer of the Army”. Received by the President, February 5th, 1885. [Note by the Department of State.— The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]