Chapter 218. To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Wear Crawford
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CHAP. 218.— An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Wear Crawford. February 12, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of War be,Wear Crawford.Granted honorable discharge. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Wear Crawford, late of Company G, Fifty-second Regiment of Indiana Infantry Veteran Volunteers, and to issue to the said Crawford an honorable discharge from said service, to be dated June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five: *Provided,**Proviso.*No pay, etc.
That no pay, bounty, or allowance shall become due or payable by virtue of this Act. Received by the President, February 1, 1897. [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.]