Chapter 307. To correct and amend the military record of John Long, late private Company H, Thirty-first Regiment Missouri Volunteers
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CHAP. 307.— An Act To correct and amend the military record of John Long, late private Company H, Thirty-first Regiment Missouri Volunteers. February 22, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * John Long.Military record corrected. That John Long, who was duly enlisted and rendered service as a private in Company H, Thirty-first Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, shall be held and considered to have been mustered into the military service of the United States as a private of said company and regiment on the twenty-second day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to have served continuously as such private in said service until the thirtieth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to have been honorably discharged, on the date hereinbefore last named, on account of disabilities incurred Granted honorable discharge.while in line of duty in said service, company, and regiment, and that the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to said Long a certificate of discharge in accordance with the terms of this Act.
Received by the President, February 10, 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.]