Chapter 371. to repeal certain provisions of the act approved March third, .eighteen hundred and seventy-five, relating to the purchase of arms for the use of the
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CHAP. 371.— An Act to repeal certain provisions of the act approved March third, .eighteen hundred and seventy-five, relating to the purchase of arms for the use of the .States.Mar. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Arms for the Militia.Repeal of law requiring amounts for purchase of arms for States while in rebellion to be covered into the Treasury.Vol. 18, p. 455.Vol. 2, p. 490. That so much of section three of an act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for other purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as provides that so much of the appropriations between the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the ninth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, under the act of April twenty third, eighteen hundred and eight, therein referred to, as would have been used for the purchase of arms to be distributed to the several States that were in rebellion, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1887.