General orders. No. 212

GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, — -
No. 212. Washington, June 15, 1864.

The following Act of Congress is published for the information
of all concerned :—

Pusuiic.—No. 97.

AN ACT, relating to members of Congress, heads of Departments,
and other officers of the Government.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress assembled, That no member
of the Senate or House of Representatives shall, after his election
and during his continuance in office, nor shall any head of a depart-
ment, head of a bureau, clerk, or any other officer of the Government,
receive or agree to receive any compensation whatsoever, directly
or indirectly, for any services rendered, or to be rendered, after the
passage of this Act, to any person, either by himself or another, in
relation to any proceeding, contract, claim, controversy, charge
accusation, arrest, or other matter or thing in which the United
States is a party, or directly or indirectly interested, before any
department, court martial, bureau, officer, or any civil, military, or
naval commission whatever. And any person offending against any
provision of this Act, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding ten thou-
sand dollars, and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
‘years, at the discretion of the Court trying the same, and shall be,
forever thereafter, incapable of holding any office of honor, trust.
or profit under the Governmeut of the United States.

Approved June 11, 1864.

By ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

Assistnat Adjutant General,