Chapter XXVIII. *for the Relief of certain Soldiers and Sailors therein designated.*July 19, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Certain soldiers and sailors not to be deemed deserters from the army or navy, so as to lose their citi
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CHAP. XXVIII.— An Act *for the Relief of certain Soldiers and Sailors therein designated.*July 19, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Certain soldiers and sailors not to be deemed deserters from the army or navy, so as to lose their citizenship. That no soldier or sailor shall be taken or held to be a deserter from the army or navy who faithfully served according to his enlistment until the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and who, without proper authority or leave first obtained, did quit his command or refuse to serve after said Forfeitures of pay, &c. not remitted.date; but nothing herein contained shall operate as a remission of any forfeiture incurred by any such soldier or sailor of his pay, bounty, pension, or other allowances, but this act shall be construed solely as a removal of any disability such soldier or sailor may have incurred by the loss of his citizenship in consequence of his desertion.
Approved, July 19, 1867.