Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers and enlisted men of the First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery (three months’ service), furnished by the State of Ohio under the call of the President of the United States issued on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and which rendered actual military service under the command of officers of the United States and in co-operation with the regularly organized military forces of the United States, shall be held and considered to have been in the military service of and to have formed a part of the military establishment of the United States during the period for which said organization was enlisted and was in active service, and that the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to issue certificates of discharge, upon due application and satisfactory proof of identity, for all honorably discharged members of the said organization: Provided, That no pay, bounty, or other emoluments shall become due or payable by virtue of the passage of this Act.

Passed the House of Representatives June 20, 1902.

Attest: A. McDowell, Clerk.

House Bill 619 passed the Senate and became a law in January, 1903.

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