Chapter CL. to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Payment of Horses and other Property destroyed in the Military Service of the United States.” June 25, 1864. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled, That the act to which t

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Chap. CL.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Payment of Horses and other Property destroyed in the Military Service of the United States.”* June 25, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled*, That the act to which this is an amendment shall, from the commencement of the present rebellion, extend Property of officers lost by capture by the enemy to be paid for.to and embrace all cases of the loss of horses by any officer, non-commissioned officer, or private in the military service of the United States, while in the line of their duty in such service, by capture by the enemy, whenever it shall appear that such officer, non-commissioned officer, or private was or shall be ordered by his superior officer to surrender to the enemy, and such capture was or shall be made in pursuance of such surrender.

Approved, June 25, 1864.