Chapter CII. *for the Relief of certain drafted Men.* Feb. 28, 1867
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CHAP. CII.— An Act *for the Relief of certain drafted Men.* Feb. 28, 1867. Whereas certain persons, drafted into the military service under thePreamble. calls of the President of the United States, made February first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, paid the sum of three hundred dollars each, being the amount of commutation fixed for such service under the fifth section of the amendatory enrolment act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and the same persons were afterwards again drafted, under the call of December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, (being1864, ch. 13, § 5.
Vol. xiii. p. 6. within one year of the previous draft, and before the filling of the quotas assigned under the two calls first named above,) and were then required to enter the service or furnish substitutes; and whereas the true intent and meaning of the fifth section of the amendatory act aforesaid was to exempt persons thus paying commutation from further draft until that quota should be filled, and not exceeding one year: Therefore— *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Drafted persons who paid commutation and were required to serve or furnish a substitute, may have $ 300 refunded.Appropriation.
That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to refund to each person drafted as aforesaid, who paid commutation and was also required to enter the service or furnish a substitute as aforesaid, the sum of three hundred dollars, being the sum of money so as aforesaid paid by him; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to make such payments. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War is authorizedAmount paid by drafted persons who furnished substitutes, &c. when not liable to personal service or draft, to be refunded. and required to refund from the commutation money the amount (not exceeding three hundred dollars in any one case) paid by any person drafted during the late war who furnished a substitute or paid commutation money, wherever it shall appear that, under the decisions and rules of the War Department governing at the time, the said person was entitled to discharge from the obligation to render personal service under the draft for which he paid money or furnished a substitute, and to refund, in like manner, in all cases wherein it shall appear that a person so having paid commutation money or furnished a substitute was not legally liable to draft: *Provided,* That this section shall apply only to claims receivedThis section to apply only to certain claims. at the War Department prior to its passage.
Approved, February 28, 1867.