Chapter 155. Authorizing John E
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CHAP. 155.— An Act Authorizing John E. Johnson and others to accept medals of honor and diplomas from the Government of Spain.July 23, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Keeper and crew, Hog Island lifesaving station may accept medals, etc., from Spain. That John E. Johnson, keeper of the lifesaving station at Hog Island, Virginia, and J, A. Doughty, J. K. Carpenter, William B. Goffigon, J. H.
De Wald, C. F. Carpenter, J. E. Smith, J. R. Dunton, and R. C. Joynes, members of the lifesaving crew at that station, be, and they are hereby, authorized to accept medals of honor and diplomas awarded them by the Government of Spain in recognition of their gallant rescue of the crew of the Spanish steamship San Albano, wrecked in the vicinity of Cape Charles on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. Approved, July 23, 1894.