Volume 15
Public Law 40–LVI
amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of certain Drafted Men.”
Approved March 1, 1869
Statutory text
An Act
amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of certain Drafted Men.”
Be it enacted by the Senate anti House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That so much of the second
All claims for the refunding of amounts paid by drafted men who furnished substitutes, &c. when not liable to personal service or draft, to be presented within two years.
section of an act entitled “An act for the relief of certain drafted men,” approved the twenty-eighth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty seven, as provides that said section “shall apply only to claims received at the War Department prior to its passage,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, however, That all claims under said second section of said act shall be presented and filed within two years from the date of the final passage of this act and not afterwards.
Approved, .