Chapter 8. to provide certificates of honorable service to those who have served in the United States Navy or Marine Corps who have lost their certificates of discharge
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CHAP. 8.— An Act to provide certificates of honorable service to those who have served in the United States Navy or Marine Corps who have lost their certificates of discharge.February 7, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Navy.Certificates of honorable discharge.Secretary of Navy to furnish, where original lost, etc., in Navy or Marine Corps. That from and after the passage of this act. whenever satisfactory proof is furnished at the Navy Department that any commissioned officer, regular or volunteer, appointed or enlisted man who served in the Navy or the Marine Corps of the United States in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, the Mexican war, or the war of the rebellion, has lost his certificate of discharge, or the same has been destroyed without his privity or procurement, the Secretary of the Navy shall be authorized to furnish to such commissioned officer, regular or volunteer, appointed or enlisted man, a certificate of discharge in lieu thereof. *Provided*, That such certificate shall not be accepted as a *Proviso*.Not to be evidence in claims.voucher for the payment of any claim against the United States for pay, bounty, or any other allowance, or as evidence in any other case’.
Approved, February 7, 1890.