July 13, 1866.

Army appropriation.

Recruiting and

pay of citizen surgeons.

Pay.

Commutation of subsistence and forage.

Payments in lieu of clothing.

Subsistence in

kind.

Quartermasters' depart

ment.

ment.

CHAP. CLXXV. An Act to provide for the Payment of the sixth, eighth, and eleventh Regiments of Ohio Volunteer Militia of Cincinnati, Bard's Company of Cavalry, and Paulsen's Battery, during the Time they were in the Service of the United States, in 1862. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers and men of the sixth, eighth, and eleventh regiments of Ohio volunteer militia, and of Captain S. W. Bard's company of cavalry, and of Captain August Paulsen's battery, of Cincinnati, ordered into the service of the United States, at Cincinnati, Ohio, on the second day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, notwithstanding any irregularity in their muster into the service of the United States, be paid for the time the officers and men were actually in the service, respectively, not however to exceed the period of thirty-one days.

APPROVED, July 5, 1866.

CHAP. CLXXVI. -An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven:

For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, and compensation to citizen surgeons for medical attendance, three hundred thousand dollars.

For pay of the army, ten millions seven hundred and twelve thousand and fifty-two dollars.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, one million six hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents.

For commutation of forage for officers' horses, one hundred and five thousand two hundred dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' servants, one hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars.

For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For subsistence in kind for regulars and volunteers, five million three hundred and one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen for the quartermaster's department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers' horses when serving in the field and at the outposts, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers' bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the quartermaster's department certificates for discharged soldiers blank forms for the pay and quartermaster's departments; and for the printing of division and department orders and reports, four millions one hundred and thirty-four thousand four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-three cents.

Incidental ex- For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's department, consistpenses quarter- ing of postage on letters and packages received and sent by officers of masters' departthe army on public service; expenses of courts-martial, military commissions, and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation of judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service; under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two, extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the quartermaster's department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; in the con

1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.

Vol. ii. p. 136.

1819, ch. 45.

Vol. iii. p. 488. 1854, ch. 247, § 6.

struction of roads, and on other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters; expenses of Vol. x. p. 576. expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers and to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or at other posts and places when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermaster's department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officers of the quartermaster's department; compensation of forage and wagon masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident $10. to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horses' and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movements and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other department, one million dollars.

For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, seven hundred and thirteen thousand one hundred dollars.

1838, ch. 162,

Vol. v. p. 257

Cavalry and artillery horses.

Officers' baggage.

For transportation of officers' baggage, fifty thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops Transportation. when moving, either by land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, from the depots at Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New York to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier-posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for pro- ports. curing water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the in roads, rivers, actual operations of the troops in the field, five million dollars.

For hire of commutation quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops; of storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores; of grounds for summer cantonments; for the construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, six hundred and twenty-four thousand and thirty-eight dollars.

Public trans

Water.
Obstructions

and harbors.

Hire of quar

ters.

Contingencies of the army. Medical and

For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital department, five hundred thousand dollars. hospital departFor repairs, improvements, and new machinery at the national armory, one hundred thousand dollars.

For repairs and improvements at arsenals, including new, and additions. to present, buildings, and machinery, tools, and fixtures, fifty thousand dollars.

ment.

National armory.

Arsenals.

Magazine for

For purchase of site and erection of magazine for storing gunpowder, storing gunpow- two hundred thousand dollars.

der.

Enlarging

For the purchase of land for enlarging the Watervleit arsenal, thirty Watervleit arse- thousand dollars.

nal.

Telegraphing. Advertisements for bids

can production.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War in the erection of fire proof buildings at or near Schuylkill arsenal in the State of Pennsylvania, to be used as storehouses for government property at that post.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the fiscal year commencing July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, namely:

The salaries of assistant and sub-assistant commissioners, one hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of clerks eighty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For stationery and printing, sixty-three thousand dollars.

For quarters and fuel, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.

For clothing for distribution, one million one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

For commissary stores, three million one hundred and six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For medical department, five hundred thousand dollars.

For transportation, one million three hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For school superintendents, twenty-one thousand dollars.

For repairs and rent of school-houses and asylums, five hundred thousand dollars.

For telegraphing, eighteen thousand dollars.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Quartermaster's departfor contracts in ment shall in all cases in obtaining supplies for the military service, state quartermaster's in advertisements for bids for contracts, that a preference shall be given department, to to articles of domestic production and manufacture, conditions of price and state, &c. Preference to quality being equal, and that such preference shall be given to articles of articles of Amer-American production and manufacture, produced on the Pacific coast, to Pacific Coast. the extent of the consumption required by the public service there; and in advertising for army supplies the Quartermaster's department shall require all articles which are to be used in the States and Territories of the Pacific coast to be delivered and inspected at points designated in Advertisements those States and Territories; and the advertisements for such supplies in San Francisco shall be published in newspapers of the cities of San Francisco, in Caliand Portland. fornia, and Portland, in Oregon.

ch. 200, § 17. Vol. xii. p. 596.

and of Pub.

Res. of April 4, 1862.

Officers in

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That section seventeen of an act enRepeal of 1862, titled "An act to define the pay and emoluments of certain officers of the army," approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and a resolution entitled "A resolution to authorize the President to assign the command of troops in the same field or department, to officers of the Vol. xii. p. 617. same grade without regard to seniority," approved, April fourth, eighteen military or naval hundred and sixty-two, be and the same are hereby repealed, And no service, in time officer in the military or naval service shall in time of peace, be dismissed of peace, not to from service except upon and in pursuance of the sentence of a court-marbe dismissed, extial to that effect, or in commutation thereof. cept, &c. Superintendent and officers of military academy may be selected and de

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the superintendent of the United States Military Academy may hereafter be selected, and the officers on duty at that institution detailed from any arm of the service; and the supervision and charge of the Academy shall be in the War Departtailed from any ment under such officer or officers, as the Secretary of War may assign to that duty.

arm of the service.

ployed as artifi

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That when it is necessary to em- Soldiers employ soldiers as artificers or laborers in the construction of permanent cers or laborers military works, public roads, or other constant labor of not less than ten in constant labor days' duration in any case, they shall receive in addition to their regular of not less than ten days in any pay, the following additional compensation therefor: enlisted men, working case to have exas artificers, and non-commissioned officers employed as overseers of such tra pay. work, not exceeding one overseer for every twenty men, thirty-five cents Troops of enper day, and enlisted men employed as laborers twenty cents per day; gineer and ordbut such working parties shall only be authorized on the written order of nance departa commanding officer. This allowance of extra pay is not to apply to the troops of the engineer and ordnance departments. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the allowance now made by officers for travel law to officers travelling under orders where transportation is not furnished increased in kind shall be increased to ten cents per mile. APPROVED, July 13, 1866.

CHAP. CLXXVII. An Act relating to Pilots and Pilot Regulations.

ment not to have extra pay.

Allowance to

July 13, 1866.

No State shall

certain vessels.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no regulations or provi- make discrimisions shall be adopted by any State of the United States of America which nation in rates shall make any discrimination in the rate of pilotage or half-pilotage be- of pilotage of tween vessels sailing between the ports of one State and vessels sailing between the ports of different States, or any discrimination against vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, or against national vessels of the United States, and all existing regulations or provisions making any such Existing disdiscrimination, as herein mentioned, are hereby annulled and abrogated. APPROVED, July 13, 1866.

criminations

abrogated.

CHAP. CLXXVIII. An Act to amend "An Act making a Grant of Lands to the July 13, 1866.
State of Minnesota to aid in the Construction of the Railroad from St. Paul to Lake
Superior," approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

1864, ch. 79. Vol. xiii. p. 64.

line of the State,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section one of the act en- If land intendtitled "An act making a grant of lands to the State of Minnesota to aid ed to be granted is deficient by in the construction of the railroad from Saint Paul to Lake Superior," reason of nearapproved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be amended by add- ness of boundary ing thereto the following: Provided further, That in case it shall appear, how deficiency when the line of the Lake Superior and Mississippi railroad is definitely may be made located, that the quantity of land intended to be granted by the said act up. in aid of the construction of the said road shall be deficient by reason of the line thereof running near the boundary line of the said State of Minnesota, the said company shall be entitled to take from other public lands of the United States within thirty miles of the west line of said road such an amount of lands as shall make up such deficiency: Provided, That the same shall be taken in alternate odd sections as provided for in said

act.

APPROVED, July 13, 1866.

Odd sections.

CHAP. CLXXIX. - An Act to extend to certain Persons the Privilege of Admission, in July 13, 1866. certain Cases, to the United States Government Asylum for the Insane.

Civilians in quartermaster's departments

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That civilians employed in the service of the United States, in the quartermaster's department and the and subsistence subsistence department of the army, who may be, or may hereafter be come, insane while in such employment, shall be admitted on the order of the Secretary of War, the same as persons belonging to the army and

may be admitted to Insane Asylum, if, &c.

July 13, 1865. 1865, ch. 81, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 497.

adier-general.

navy, to the benefits of the asylum for the insane in the District of Columbia, as now provided by law in reference to soldiers and sailors in the army and navy.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following classes of persons, under the following circumstances, shall be entitled to admission to said asylum on the order of the Secretary of War, if in the army, or the Secretary of the Navy, if in the navy, to wit:

First. Men who, while in the service of the United States, in the army or navy, have been admitted to said asylum, and have been thereafter discharged therefrom on the supposition that they had rcovered their reason, and have, within three years after such discharge, become again insane from causes existing at the time of such discharge, and have no adequate means of support.

Second. Indigent insane persons, who have been in the same service and been discharged therefrom on account of disability arising from such insanity.

Third. Indigent insane persons, who have become insane within three years after discharge from such service from causes which arose during and were produced by said service.

APPROVED, July 13, 1866.

CHAP. CLXXX. An Act to provide for making the Town of Whitehall, New York, a Port of Delivery.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the town of Whitehall, in the State of New York, which by existing law is a port through which imported merchandise may be exported in bond and for drawback to the adjacent British North American provinces, be, and the same is hereby, constituted a port of delivery within the collection district of Champlain, and that a deputy collector, as now authorized by law, shall there reside, who shall receive the same compensation as is now paid to the deputy collector now stationed at that port.

APPROVED, July 13, 1866.

CHAP. CLXXXI. An Act to extend the Benefits of Section four of an Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Three months' States of America in Congress assembled, That section four of an act enpay to officers of titled "An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the volunteers below the rank of brig. year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six," be to construed as to entitle to the three months' pay proper, provided for therein, all officers of volunteers below the rank of brigadier-general who were in service on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and whose resignations were presented and accepted, or who were mustered out at their own request, or otherwise honorably discharged from the service after the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. APPROVED, July 13, 1866.

July 13, 1866. CHAP. CLXXXII. An Act granting Aid in the Construction of a Railroaa and Tele graph Line from the Town of Folsom to the Town of Placerville, in the State of California. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way through the public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to the Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of California, and designated by the legislature thereof, to construct the road hereinafter named, and to its successors and

Right of way granted to the Placerville and Sacramento Railroad Company, for railroad and tele

graph.