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On the recordJune 22, 1886
I think upon all the facts presented the Pension Bureau properly rejected this claim, because there was no record of the injury and no satisfactory evidence produced showing that it was incurred in service and in line of duty, 'all sources of information having been exhausted.'
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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