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FIFIY-SEVEN TH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1352-1354. 1902. 629 and include every rson en ged in sellin or offerin for sale an description of memindise ogaproperty. V$ords of eng number shall signify and include words of both numbers, res ctively, and words of one gender shall signify and include words opbvery gender, respectively: Prorvided, That nothing in this section shall be interpreted as dbuud. repealing any of the plolice or building regulations of the District of 1-eguniiciii not iii? Columbia regarding the establishment or conduct of the businesses, *°“°°· trades, professions, or callings herein named. Sec. 8. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act MWL are repealed. Approved, July 1, 1902. CHAP. 1358.--An Act To authorize the Secretaryof War to furnish certincates in July 1, 1902. KOH of lost 0I' destroyed Be it enacted by the Senate and House ggf Representat¢}ves of the United States ammtm tn. Oongresa assembt , That whenever satisfactory agri, proof s be furnished to the War De rtment that any officer or cernneiiaamipiéum enlisted man who has been or shall hereaitier be honorably discharged *“ “°“ °*· from the military service of the United States has lost his certificate ` of discharge, or the same has been destroyed without his privit or procurement, the Secretary of War shall be authorized to rnisg to such officer or enlisted man, or to the widow of such officer or enlisted man, a certificate of such discharge, to be indelibly marked, so that it may be known as a certificate in lieu of a lost or destroyed discharge: Premded, That Such certificate shall not be accepted as a voucher for gg"?-M mm M the payment of any claim against the United: States for pay, bounty, as vouchers. P or other allowance, or as evidence in any other case. ` Approved, July 1, 1902. CHAP. 1354.-AnActI•‘or the allowance of certain claims reported by the account- July 1. 1902. ing officers of the United States Treasury Department. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRe ecentatavec oft/oe Matted States ofAm6I‘i0d in Cbngrese assembled, Tait the Secretary of the §{Q};§Q·fjffg‘;`;$,*”{,; Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, upon acccununz omcem. the requisition of the Secretary of War, without further au it, allowance, or restatement of the claims by the accounting officers, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the several persons in this Act named, or to their legal representatives in case of their death since the allowance of their claims by the accountin onicers, the several sums mentioned herein, the same being in full for, and the receipt of the Same to be taken and accepted in each case as a ful} and iinal discharge of, the several claims examined and allowed by the proper accounting officers, under the provisions of the Act of J uliv V0]- ¤*· P- 381- fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, since February secon , , eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, namely: omo. Ohio- To John C. and Lushion I. H. Goings, sons of John A. Goings, deceased, late of Green County, eighty dollars. TENNESSEE. Tennessee. To Robert Stewart, administrator of Thomas Stewart, deceased, late of Shelby County, two hundred and seventy dollars.