Chapter XIII. *amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act relating to Habeas Corpus and regulating judicial Proceedings in certain Cases.”* Jan. 22, 1869. 1863, ch. 81
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Chap. XIII.— An Act *amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act relating to Habeas Corpus and regulating judicial Proceedings in certain Cases.”* Jan. 22, 1869. 1863, ch. 81. Vol. xii. p. 755. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the provisions of an act Provisions respecting the removal of causes from State to federal courts, extended.entitled “An act relating to habeas corpus and regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, so far as the same relate to the removal of causes from the State to the federal courts, be, and the same [are] *is* hereby, declared to extend to any suit or action at law, or prosecution, civil or criminal, which has been or shall be commenced in any State court against the owner or owners of any ship or vessel, or of any railway, or of any line of transportation, firm, or corporation engaged in business as common carriers of goods, wares, or merchandise, for any loss or damage which may have happened to any goods, wares, or merchandise whatever, which shall have been delivered to any such owner or owners of any ship or vessel, or any railway, or of any line of transportation, firm, or corporation, engaged in business as common carriers, where such loss or damage shall have been occasioned by the acts of those engaged in hostility to the government of the United States during the late rebellion, or where such loss or damage shall have been occasioned by any of the forces of the United States, or by any officer in command of such forces: *Provided,* That this act shall not be construed to affect any contract of insurance Contracts of insurance for war risks not affected.for war risks which may have been made with reference to any goods, wares, or merchandise, which shall have been so destroyed.
Approved, January 22, 1869.