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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · September 27, 1890 · Chapter 1008

Chapter 1008. for the relief of Albert Shell

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CHAP. 1008.— An Act for the relief of Albert Shell.September 27, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Albert Shell.Military record corrected. That the Secretary of War be. and hereby is, authorized and directed to remove the charge of desertion standing on the records against Albert Shell, as a late private in Company I, in the Twelfth Regiment of Michigan 1271 Infantry, and substitute therefor “Absent without leave from March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to August twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, when he enlisted under the name of Alfred Ryther, in Company F. in the Fifth Regiment of Michigan Cavalry, and served faithfully till mustered out and honorably discharged on June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-live;” and the Secretary of War is further authorized, upon the surrender of the dis-charge issued to said Albert Shell under the name oi Alfred Ryther, or the proof of its loss or destruction, to cause to be issued to Honorable discharge.
Albert Shell, as a member of said Company F, in said Fifth Regiment Michigan Cavalry, an honorable discharge in his proper name. Approved, September 27, 1890.
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