Chapter XXVII. to amend the Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of Seamen and Others on board of Vessels wrecked or lost in the naval Service,” approved July four, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. XXVII.— An Act to amend the Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of Seamen and Others on board of Vessels wrecked or lost in the naval Service,” approved July four, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for other Purposes.April 6, 1866.1864, ch. 248.Vol. xiii. p. 389. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in case any officer of theAllowance to officers in navy and marine corps for loss of personal effects by casualty or in action, &c. navy or marine corps on board a vessel in the employ of the United States which, by any casualty, or in action with the enemy, has been or may be sunk or otherwise destroyed, shall thereby have lost his personal effects, the proper accounting officers are hereby authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, to allow to such officer a sum not exceedingLimit of allowance. the amount of his sea pay for one month, as compensation for said loss: *Provided,* That such loss has not occurred through the negligence or wantProvisos. of skill or foresight of the officer making application for such loss: *Provided,* That the accounting officers shall in all cases require a schedule and certificate from the officer making the claim for effects so lost: *And provided further,* That no allowance shall be made by virtue of this act for any loss incurred prior to the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the seventh sectionThe law requiring bounty-money of mariners, &c., enlisting into the navy from the army, to be deducted from prize-money, repealed.1863, ch. 75.Vol. xii. p. 731.1864, ch. 13, § 7.Vol. xiii. p. 7. of the act of Congress, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,’ approved March third, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-three,” as provides that “the bounty money which any mariner or se[a]man enlisting from the army into the navy may have received from the United States, or from the State in which he enlisted in the army, shall be deducted from the prize money to which he may become entitled during the time required to complete his military service,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, April 6, 1866.