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THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Suss. II. Ch. 102, 103. 1867. 417 CHAP. CII. —- An Act jbr the Relief of certain drqjied Mm. Feb. 28, 1887. Wummss certain persons, drafted into the military service under the Preamble. calls of the President of the United States, made February first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, paid the sum of three hundred dollars each, being the amount of commutation fixed for such service under the fifth section of the amendatory enrolment act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and the same persons were afterwards again drafted, under the call of December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, (being 12;:* @.*.13- %°· within one year of the previous draft, and before the filling of the quotasxm` p` ° assigned under the two calls iirst named above,) and were then required to enter the service or furnish substitutes; and whereas the true intent and meaning of the fifth section of the amendatory act aforesaid was to exempt persons thus paying commutation from further draft until that quota should be filled, and not exceeding one year: Therefore — Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United s0£’?g;dp§;;` States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is commutation hereby authorized and directed to refund to each person drafted as afore- wi ‘;°*‘° '°· said, who paid commutation and was also required to enter the service or g,?;{S,,,i;°;1s;r::b_ furnish a substitute as aforesaid, the sum of three hundred dollars, being stitute, may the sum of money so as aforesaid paid by him; and there is hereby ap- ¥l;‘:ge§3°° ’°‘ propriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, Appgioprjgtiqn, a sum sufficient to make such payments. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War is au- Amount paid thorized and required to refund from the commutation money the amount ;’g;]g':2‘;dfEf_{‘ (not exceeding three hundred dollars in any one case) paid by any per- ngshsd subst;- son drafted during the late war who furnished a substitute or paid com- *¤t¤¤_, &¤- when mutation money, wherever it shall appear that, under the decisions and §(;EJf:l;:,:§€p§;` rules of the War Department governing at the time, the said person was draft, to be rs. entitled to discharge trom the obligation to render personal service under f“”d°d· the draft for which he paid money or furnished a substitute, and to refhnd, in like manner, in all cases wherein it shall appear that a person so having paid commutation money or furnished a substitute was not legally liable to draft: Provided, That this section shall apply only to claims re- This section to eeived at the War Department prior to its passage. ¤m>l>{ ¤¤ly_¤• Approved, February 28, 1867. °°"““‘ °l‘“"”‘ CHAP. CIII. —-An Act relative to the Port of Camden, Mw Jersey. Feb. 28, 1867. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the port of Camden, in Portof camtho State of New Jersey, be, and the same is hereby, annexed to the col- gf" *“}{*°*:9d'*° lection district of Philadelphia, and that an assistant collector, to be ap- dist;:;;-iggub pointed in accordance with the laws of the United States, shall reside at delphi;. Camden, who shall have power to enter and clear vessels in like manner le£;j‘:Q“g;§f' as the collector of Philadelphia is authorized to do, but such assistant col- den; lector shall nevertheless act in conformity to such instructions and regula- tw f$=¤¤iVt9 i¤- tions as he shall from time to time receive from the collector of Philadel- $h?§;}Y§§t0;°$ phin; and that the said assistant collector shall receive for his annual Philadelphia. salary fifteen hundred dollars in full for all services to be by him per- S*‘l*"Y· formed, and in lieu of commissions and fees. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That the assistant collector, up- ASsiSmmc°1_ pointed under this act, be, and he hereby is, authorized to enroll and lectorjrnnycnroll license, according to the laws of the United States, all vessels engaged in {*3% g:' the coasting trade and fisheries, owned in whole or in part by residents of gaged in the that portion of the Bridgeton district lying north of All0way’s creek, in cmésgng *F¤d° the county of Salem, in the State of New Jersey. And all such enrol- ansucsgliglitsm ments and licenses shall be as valid and effectual as if they had been &c.tobeval1d. effected in any other port of the United States; and the said assistant von. xiv. 27