[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3921 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3921

To authorize and request the President to issue a posthumous commission 
 appointing Johnson Chestnut Whittaker a second lieutenant in the Army.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 1994

Mr. Goodlatte introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize and request the President to issue a posthumous commission 
 appointing Johnson Chestnut Whittaker a second lieutenant in the Army.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUEST FOR POSTHUMOUS APPOINTMENT AS A COMMISSIONED OFFICER 
              IN THE ARMY.

    The President is authorized and requested to issue, or have issued, 
a posthumous commission in the name of Johnson Chestnut Whittaker of 
South Carolina in the grade of second lieutenant in the regular Army, 
as recompense for the unjust separation in the early 1880's, in 
circumstances suggesting racial prejudice, of Johnson Chestnut 
Whittaker from the Corps of Cadets of the United States Military 
Academy and from the United States Army.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF BENEFITS.

    Section 1523 of title 10, United States Code, shall apply to a 
commission issued pursuant to section 1.

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