Chapter 1236. to amend the naval record of Nickolas Leuschen, Peter Leuschen, and Loth Possum
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CHAP. 1236.— An Act to amend the naval record of Nickolas Leuschen, Peter Leuschen, and Loth Possum.October 19, 1888. Whereas, Nicholas Leuschen, Peter Leuschen, and Loth Possum,Preamble. citizens of the United States and residents of Erie, Pennsylvania, did, on the thirtieth day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four, enlist at Erie, Pennsylvania, as volunteers in the United States Navy for three years or during the war; and Whereas, they were taken to Buffalo, in the State of New York, and there, without their knowledge or consent, sold as substitutes, so that their names now appear on the records of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting as substitutes, credited as such to the Thirtieth Congressional district, in the State of New York, instead of as volunteers from the twenty-seventh Congressional district, in the State of Pennsylvania; and Whereas they were honorably discharged at the expiration of their three years of service:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Naval records of Nickolas Leuschen, Peter Leuschen, and Loth Possum. That the Secretary of Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the names of Nickolas Leuschen. Peter Leuschen, and Loth Possum to be entered on the appropriate records of the Navy Department as volunteers, enlisted in the United States Navy July thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at Erie, Pennsylvania, and to cause them to be credited to the Twenty-seventh Congressional district of the State of Pennsylvania.
Sec. 2. That they are hereby restored to the standing and to all theTo be rated as volunteers. rights, privileges, advantages, immunities, and emoluments, past, present, and prospective, now enjoyed or to be hereafter enjoyed by volunteer soldiers and sailors of the United States. Approved, October 19, 1888.