Volume 15
Public Law 40–CCXXXVI
in Addition to an Act passed March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act in Addition to an Act entitled ‘An Act for the Punishment of certain Crimes against the United States.’”
Approved July 25, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
in Addition to an Act passed March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act in Addition to an Act entitled ‘An Act for the Punishment of certain Crimes against the United States.’”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled,
That no person shall be prosecuted,
Indictments for treason, murder, piracy, and casting away vessels to be found within five years.
When act takes effect, and to apply to certain former offences.
tried, or punished for the capital offences set forth in the act to which this act is in addition, unless the indictment for the same is found by a grand jury within five years after such capital offence is committed.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage, and its provisions shall be applicable equally to offences committed within three years before and offences committed after its passage.
Approved, .