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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 29 STAT. · February 12, 1897 · Chapter 219

Chapter 219. To correct the military record of Homer C

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CHAP. 219.— An Act To correct the military record of Homer C. McCuskey. February 12, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the charge of desertionHomer C. McCuskey.Granted honorable discharge. now standing against Homer C. McCuskey, second lieutenant of the 802 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 219, 220, 225, 226. 1897. Seventh Regiment of United States Colored Troops, on the records of the War Department, be, and the same is, removed, and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to issue to said Homer C.
McCuskey an honorable discharge, the same to date from October first, eighteen hundred *Proviso.*No pay, etc.and sixty-five: *Provided,* That the said Homer C. McCuskey shall receive no bounty, pay, or emoluments of any kind subsequent to said last-named date. 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.]
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