Chapter 15.
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CHAP. 15.— An act to extend the time for filing claims for horses and equipments lost by officers and enlisted men in the service of the United States, and for other purposes. Jan. 9, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the time for filing claimsTime for filing claims for lost horses and equipments extended. for horses and equipments lost by officers and enlisted men in the military service of the United States, which expired by limitation on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be, and the same is hereby, extended to one year from and after the passage of this act; and that all such claims filed in the proper department before the passage of this act shall be deemed to have been filed in due time, and shall be considered and decided without refiling.
Sec. 2. That all claims arising under the act approved March third,Claims when barred.[9 Stat., 414](/us/stat/9/414). eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled “An act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States”, and all acts amendatory thereof, which shall not be filed in the proper department within one year from and after the passage of this act, shall be forever barred, and shall not be received, considered, or audited by any department of the government.
Approved, January ninth, 1883.