I can not satisfy myself that the negligence made apparent in this case
should be overlooked.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 21, 1888_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I return without approval House bill No. 823, entitled "An act granting
a pension to Hannah C. De Witt."
An act the precise duplicate of this was passed at the present session
of the Congress, and received Executive approval on the 10th day of
March, 1888. Pursuant to said act the name of the beneficiary mentioned
in the bill herewith returned has been placed upon the pension rolls.
The second enactment is of course entirely useless, and was evidently
passed by mistake.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 21, 1888_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I return without approval House bill No. 418, entitled "An act granting
a pension to William H. Brokenshaw."
The history of the military service of the beneficiary mentioned in this
bill, as derived from the records of the War Department, shows that he
was received at draft rendezvous at Jackson, Mich., on the 25th day of
March, 1865; that he was sent to the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Michigan
Volunteers on the 29th day of the same month, and that he was present
with his command, without any record of disability, from that date until
the 30th day of June, 1865, when he was mustered out with his company.
It will thus be seen that he was in the service a few days more than
three months, just at the close of the war.
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