Thirtieth Congress,
thiSecond Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.

(That the act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the payment of horses or other property lost and destroyed in the military service, of the United States,” approved the eighteenth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,” approved March second eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and all other acts or parts of acts relating to the same subject, and now in force, be, and the same are hereby continued in force for the period of five years from and after the third day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and forty-nine, Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to revive or continue in force, the proviso to the second section of the act approved the fifteenth of June eighteen hundred and forty four, entitled “an act making an appropriation for the payment of horses lost by the Missouri Volunteers in the Florida War.”