Chapter 214. To validate for certain purposes the revocation of discharge orders of Lieutenant Colonel James M
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CHAP. 214.— An Act To validate for certain purposes the revocation of discharge orders of Lieutenant Colonel James M. Palmer and the orders restoring such officer to former rank and command. March 2, 1923.[[H. R. 11603](/us/bill/67/hr/11603).][[Public, No. 232](/us/pvtl/67/232).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, James M. Palmer.Validation of his sendee as lieutenant colonel, Maine National Guard, during World War.
That Lieutenant Colonel James M. Palmer, of the National Guard of the State of Maine, who was in the Federal service during the World War, and who was discharged from such service during said war, and who subsequent to such discharge was notified by the War Department of the revocation of the orders discharging him from the Federal service and of his restoration to his former rank and command, and to whom orders were thereafter issued by the War Department and by the departments thereof, and by his superior officers of the Army, which orders were thereafter acted upon by said James M.
Palmer, shall be deemed to have been lawfully reinstated in the Federal service by such orders of revocation of discharge and of restoration to rank and command, for the purposes of the succeeding clause, Pay, etc., allowed.and shall be entitled, from date of notification of such revocation orders, to pay, travel, and other allowances to the date of his final discharge in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had not been previously discharged. Approved, March 2, 1923.