|
CERTIFICATE IN LIEU OF LOST OR DESTROYED
DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE
TO ALL WHO, IT MAY CONCERN:
KNOW YE, THAT
Samuel Olvis, a
Private of Company E, Twenty-first Regiment Infantry, U. S. Army,
who was enlisted on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety, at Indianapolis, Indiana; to serve five
years, was HONORABLY DISCHARGED from the service of the United
States on the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-four, by reason of Special Order No. 208, Department
of the East, 1893. Character Very Good
| |
This
Certificate is given under the provisions of the Act of
Congress approved |
|
July 1,
1902, "to authorize the Secretary of war to furnish
certificates in lieu of lost or destroyed discharges"
to honorably discharged officers or enlisted men or their
widows, upon evidence that the original discharge
certificate has been lost or destroyed, and upon the
condition imposed by said act that this certificate "shall
not be accepted as a voucher for the payment of any claim
against the United States for pay, bounty or other
allowances, or as evidence in any other case." |
| |
| |
Given at the
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C., this twenty- |
|
seventh day
of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine |
| |
|
By authority
of the Secretary of War: |
|
|
|
Harry Coope
|
|
|
|
Adjutant
General |
O.R.D.
E.I. H.
|
