The Archive · 1941

U.S. Revolutionary War Matters Cleared Up Legal Appeals to King of

England Cannot Be Made

Washington, May 3

While hurrying to send aid to Es tain in the Second World War. America has only just managed to clear up the nal odds and ends of its own 160-year-old Revolutionary War against England.

This was revealed here when the House of Representatives discussed an old, long-forgotten District of Columbia Law which provided for an appeal to the King of England.

The law was somehow included in 2,1929 code of laws but a report on it by a Congressional Committee pointed out that the old statute "has had no force or effect since the Revolutionary War."—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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