General orders. No. 231

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFIC K,

GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, July 18, 1864.

No. 281.

The following Acts and Resolutions of Congress are published
for the information of all concerned :—

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J...Pusiic.—No. 180.

- AN ACT making appropriations for the construction, preservation, and repairs
of certain fortifications and other works of defence, for the year ending the
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

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 they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction,
preservation, and repairs of certain fortifications, and other works
of defence for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-five :—

For Fort Montgomery, at outlet of Lake Champlain, New York,
fifty thousand dollars.

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For Fort Knox, at Narrows of Penobscot river, Maine, one hun-
dred thousand dollars.

For fort at entrance of Kennebec river, (Fort Popham,) Maine,
one hundred thousand dollars.

For fort on Hog Island ledge, (Fort Georges,) Portland harbor,
Maine, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For Fort Preble, Portland harbor, Maine, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. :

For Fort Scammel, Portland harbor, Maine, one hundred thousand
dollars.

For New Fort Constitution, Portsmouth harbor, New Hampshire,
one hundred thousand dollars.

For Fort MeClary, Portsmouth harbor, New Hampshire, fifty
thousand dollars.

For Fort Winthrop, Governor's Island, Boston harbor, Massachu-
setts, fifty thousand dollars.

For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, twenty thousand
dollars.

For sea-wall of Great Brewster's Island, forty thousaud dollars.

For repair of sea-walls on Deer and on Lovell’s islands, ten thou-
sand dollars.

For permanent forts at New Bedford harbor, Massachusetts, one
hundred thousand dollars.

For Fort Schuyler, East river, New York, twenty-five thousand
dollars.

For fort at Willet’s Point, opposite Fort Schuyler, New York, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For repairs of Fort Columbus, Castle Williams, South Battery,
Fort Wood, and Fort Gibson, New York harbor, one hundred
thousand dollars.

For new battery near Fort Hamilton, at the Narrows, New York,
seventy-five thousand dollars.

For Fort Richmond, Staten Island, New York, twenty thonsiem :
dollars.

For fort on site of Fort Tompkins, Staten Island, New York, oie
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For easemated battery on Staten Tsland, New York, satin dB
thousand dollars.

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For repairs and completion of sea-wall at Buffalo, thirty-seven
thousand five hundred dollars.

For fort at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, one hundred and twenty-
five thousand dollars.

For Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, twenty thou-
sand dollars.

For permanent work for Delaware breakwater harbor, one hun-
dred thousand dollars.

For Fort Carroll, Baltimore harbor, Maryland, one hundred
thousand dollars.

For Fort Monroe, Hampton roads, Virginia, fifty thousand dollars.

For Fort Wool, Hampton roads, Virginia, two hundred thousand
dollars. .

For Fort Clinch, entrance to Cumberland sound, Florida, one
hundred thousand dollars.

For fort at Ship Island, coast of Mississippi, one hundred thou-
sand dollars.

For fort at Fort Point, San Francisco bay, California, fifty thou-
sand dollars.

For fort at Aleatraz Island. Sau Franciseo bay, California, ninety
thousand dollars.

For land defences at San Francisco, one hundred and seventy-
seven thousand dollars. Provided, That no portion of the same
shall be expended on other fortifications now in progress there.

For defences in Oregon and in Washington Territory. at or near
the mouth of Columbia river, one hundred thousand dollars.

For repairs and alterations of barracks, quarters, hospitals, store-
rooms, and fences at permanent forts not ocenpied by troops, fifty
thousand dollars. ;

For construction of permanent platforms for modern cannon of
large calibre in existing fortifications of important harbors, one
hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

For tool and siege trains for armies in the field, two hundred
thousand dollars.

For bridge trains and equipage for armies in the field, five hun-
dred thousand dollars.

For contingencies of fortifications, including field works — ae
operations, seven hundred thousand dollars.

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For providing obstructions to be moored in the Potomac river, to
render the shore batteries more efficient for the protection of Wash-
ington against maritime attack, three hundred thousand dollars.

For completing and rendering more permanent the defences of
Washington, three hundred thousand dollars.

For surveys of the northern and northwestern Jakes, including
Lake Superior, one hundred thousand dollars.

For engraving and printing chart of lake surveys, ten thousand
dollars.

For purchase and repair of instruments, fifteen thousand dollars.

For surveys for military defences, and for purchase of campaign
maps, manuscript notes, and maps of surveys of railroads and
canals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Approved July 2, 1864. .

IT... Pustic.—No. 184.
AN ACT to provide for the more speedy punishment of guerrilla marauders,
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 provi-
sions of the twenty-first section of an act entitled ‘‘ An act for en-
rolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,”’
approved third March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall ap-
ply as well to the sentences of military commissions as to those of
courts martial, and hereafter the commanding general in the field,
or the commander of the department, as the case may be, shall have
power to carry into execution all sentences against guerrilla maran-
ders, for robbery, arson, burglary, rape, assault with intent to com-
mit rape, and for violation of the laws and customs of war, as well
as sentences against spies, mutineers, deserters, and murderers.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every ofticer authorized
to order a general court martial shall have power to pardon or miti-
gate any punishment ordered by such court, including that of con-
finement in the penitentiary, except the sentence of death, or of
cashiering or dismissing an officer, which sentences it shall be com-
petent during the continuance of the present rebellion for the
general commanding the army in the field, or the department com-
mander, as the case may be, to remit or mitigate; and the fifth

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section of the act approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, chapter two hundred and one, be, and the same is hereby,
repealed, so far as it relates to sentences of imprisonment in the
penitentiary.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when a soldier sick in
hospital shall have been discharged, or shall be discharged from the
military service, but shall be enabled to leave or to avail himself of
his discharge, in consequence of sickness or wounds, and shall sub-
sequently die in such hospital, he shall be deemed to have died in
the military service, so far as relates to bounties.

Approved July 2, 1864.

III... Pusiic.—No. 206.
AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled “ An act to grant pensions,” approved
July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the biennial
examinations of pensioners required by an act approved March
three, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, may be made by one sur-
geon only, provided he is a surgeon of the army or navy, or an
examining surgeon duly appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions :
nor shall the biennial certificate of two unappointed civil surgeons
be accepted in any case, except upon satisfactory evidence that an
examination by a commissioned or duly appointed surgeon is im-
practicable.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all fees paid to examining
surgeons for biennial examinations, or for examinations especially
ordered, as provided by the eighth section of the act to grant pen-
sions, approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,
shall be refunded by the agent for paying pensions in the district
within which the pensioner or claimant resides, out of any money
appropriated for the payment of pensions, under such regulations
as the Commissioner of Pensions may prescribe.

Sec. 38. And be it further enacted, That declarations of peusion
claimants shall be made before a court of record, or before some
officer thereof having custody of its seal, said officer being hereby
fully authorized and empowered to administer and certify any oath
or affirmation relating to any pension or application therefor:

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Provided, That the Commissioner of Pensions may designate, in lo-
calities more than twenty-five miles distant from any place at which
such a court is holden, persons duly qualified to administer oaths,
before whom declarations may be made and testimony taken.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That section twelve of the act
to grant pensions, approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, is hereby repealed. And the Commissioner of Pensions
is authorized and empowered to detail, from time to time, clerks in
his office to investigate suspected attempts at fraud on the govern-
ment through the Pension Office, and to aid in prosecuting any per-
sons so offending, with such additional compensation as is customary
in cases of special service.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all persons now by law
entitled to a less pension than hereafter specified, who shall have
lost both feet in the military service of the United States and in the
line of duty, shall be entitled to a pension of twenty dollars per
month; and those who under the same conditions have lost both
hands or both eyes shall be entitled to a pension of twenty-five
dollars per month.

Sec. 6. And be it JSurther enacted, That no pension claim now on
file, unless prosecuted to a successful issue within three years from
the passage of this act, and no claim hereafter filed, not thus pros-
ecuted to a successful issue within five years from the date of such
filing, shall be admitted without satisfactory record evidence from
the War Department to establish the same; and in every case in
which a claim for pension shall have been filed for more than three
years after the discharge or decease of the party on whose account
the claim is made, the pension, if allowed, shall commence from
the date of filing the last paper in said case by the party prosecuting
the same.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That on the remarviage of any
widow receiving a pension, such pension shall terminate, and shall
not be renewed should she again become a widow.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, ‘That examining surgeons, duly
appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, may be required by
him, from time to time, as he shall deem for the interests of the
Government, to make special examinations of pensioners on the
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precedence over previous examinations, whether special or biennial ;
but when injustice is alleged to have been done by any examination
so ordered, the Commissioner of Pensions may, at his discretion,
select a board of three duly appointed examining surgeons, who
shall meet at a place to be designated by him, and shall review such
cases as may be ordered before them on appeal from any special
examination as aforesaid, and the decision of such board shall be
final on the question so submitted thereto. The compensation of
all such surgeons shall not exceed that which has been customarily
allowed in such cases, and shall be paid out of any appropriations
made for the payment of pensions, in the same manner as the ordi-

nary fees of appointed surgeons are or may be authorized to be
paid.

Src. 9. And be it further enacted, That those persons, not en-
listed soldiers in the army, who volunteered for the time being to
serve with any regularly organized military or naval force of the
United States, or where persons otherwise volunteered and rendered
service in any engagement with rebels or Indians since the fourth
day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall, if they have
been disabled in consequence of wounds received in battle in such
temporary service, be entitled to the same benefits of the pension
laws as those who have been regularly mustered into the United
States service; and the widows or other dependents of any such
persons as may have been killed in the temporary service aforesaid
shall be entitled to pensions in the same manner as they would have
been had such persons been regularly mustered: Provided, That no
claim under this section shall be valid unless presented and prose-
cuted to a successful issue within three years from and after the
passage of this act. All such claims shall be adjudicated under
such special rules and regulations as the Commissioner of Pensions
may prescribe most effectually to guard against frauds.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That if any person entitled
to an invalid pension under the provisions of the act granting pen-
sions, approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, has
died or shall hereafter die while an application for such pension is
pending, and having a widow or dependent relative entitled to re-
ceive a pension by reason of his service and death, as provided in
said act, then the pension to such widow or other person shall com-

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mence from the date at which the decedent's invalid pension would
have commenced had he survived, subject to the conditions of this
act, and the act to which this is amendatory.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That all enlisted soldiers in
the army who shall have become disabled in the service, whether
they shall have been regularly mustered in or not, shall be entitled
to the same benefits of the pension laws, as those who have been
regularly mustered into the United States service ; and the widows
or other dependents entitled to pensions by law, as prescribed by
the act of July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, of any
such soldier who may have been killed, or shall have died, or shall
hereafter die, by reason of any wound received or disease contracted
while in said service and in the line of duty, shall be entitled to the
same pension as though such soldier had been regularly mustered
into the service.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the fees of agents and
attorneys for making out and causing to be executed the papers
necessary to establish a claim for a pension, bounty, and other al-
lowance before the Pension Office, under this act, shall not exceed
the following rates : For making out and causing to be duly executed
a declaration by the applicant, with the necessary affidavits, and
forwarding the same to the Pension Office, with the requisite ¢or-
respondence, ten dollars ; which sum shall be received by such agent
or attorney in full for all services in obtaining such pension, and
shall not be demanded or received in whole or in part until such
pension shall be obtained ; and the sixth and seventh sections of an
act entitled ‘‘ An act to grant pensions,’’ approved July [fourteenth, ]
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That any agent or attorney
who shall, directly or indirectly, demand or receive any greater com-
pensation for.his services under this act than is prescribed in the
preceding section of this act, or who shall contract or agree to pros-
ecute any claim for a pension, bounty, or other allowance, under
this act, on the condition that he shall receive a per centum upon
any portion of the amount of such claim, or who shall wrongfully
withhold from a pensioner or other claimant the whole or any part
of the pension or claim allowed and due to such pensioner or
claimant, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor. and upon

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conviction thereof shall, for every such offence, be fined not exceed-
ing three hundred dollars, or imprisoned at hard labor not exceed-
ing two years, or both, according to the circumstances and aggrava-
tions of the offence.

Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, Vhat the widows and children
of colored soldiers who have been, or who may be hereafter, killed,
or who have died or may hereafter die of wounds received in battle,
or who have died or may hereafter die of disease contracted in the
military service of the United States, and in the line of duty, shall
be entitled to receive the pensions now provided by law, without.
other proof of marriage than that the parties had habitually recog-
nized each other as man and wife, and lived together as such for a
definite period, next preceding the soldier's enlistment, not less than
two years, to be shown by the affidavits of credible witnesses :
Provided, However, that such widow and children are free persons,
provided further that if such parties resided in any State in which
their marriage may have been legally solemnized, the usual evidence
shall be required.

Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved July 4, 1864.

EV .:.Pusric.—No. 212.

AN ACT to provide for the better organization of the Quartermaster’s depart-
ment.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall
be established in the office of the Quartermaster General of the
army, to exist during the present rebellion, and one year théreafter,
the following divisions, each of which shall be placed in the charge of
a competent officer of the Quartermaster’s department, to be as-
signed to such duty by the Secretary of War, who shall, under such
rules as may be prescribed by the Quartermaster General, with the
approval of the Secretary of War, transact the business of such
division as hereinafter provided, to wit:

The first division shall have charge of the purchase, procurement,
and disposition of horses and mules for cavalry. artillery, wagon

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and ambulance trains, and all other purposes for which horses or
mules may be procured for the armies of the United States.

The second division shall have charge of the purchase, procure-
ment, issue, and disposition of cloth and clothing, knapsacks, camp
and garrison equipage, and all accoutrements of the soldier which
are provided by the Quartermaster’s department.

The third division shall have charge of the purchase, charter, hire,
and maintenance of all vessels to be used in the transportation of
the army, and of prisoners of war, and of their supplies, on the
ocean, and the bays and sounds connected therewith, and upon the
northern and northwestern lakes, including all vessels propelled by
steam or otherwise, owned or employed by the War Department,
excepting river steam vessels and barges upon the western rivers.

The fourth division shall have charge of the purchase, charter,
hire, maintenance, and procurement of all transportation for the
army, and its supplies by land and upon the western rivers, (other
than transportation by animal power in the field, and at eamps, gar-
risons, posts, depots, and stations,) including all railroad and tele-
graph lines operated by the United States for military purposes, and
of all steam rams and gunboats owned or employed by the War
Department upon the western rivers, until other disposition shall be
made of them by competent authority.

The fifth division shall have charge of the purchase, procurement,
issue, and disposition of forage and straw for the army.

’ The sixth division shall have charge of the erection, procurement,
maintenance, disposition, and so forth, of all barracks, hospital build-
ings, storehouses, stables, bridges, (other than railroad bridges, )
wharves, and other structures composed in whole, or in part, of
lumber, and of all lumber, nails, and hardware for building pur-
poses; and of the hire and commutation of quarters for officers, the
hire of quarters for troops, the hire of grounds for cantonments, or
other military purposes, and the repair and care of all buildings and
other structures herein mentioned, and of all grounds owned, hired,
or oceupied for military purposes, except such as are lawfully under
the charge of other bureaus of the War Department; and of extra
pay to soldiers employed in erecting barracks, or other fatigue duty,
under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and
August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

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The seventh division shall have charge of the purchase, procure-
ment, issue, and disposition of all wagons, ambulances, travelling
forges and harness, (except such as are furnished by the Ordnance
department, ) and of all hardware except as hereinbefore provided ;
and of all fuel for officers and enlisted men, camps, garrisons,
hospitals, posts, storehouses, offices, public transports, steam rams,
and army gunboats, and of all transportation by animal power in
the field, at camps, garrisons, posts, depots and stations; and of
the construction and repair of roads other than railroads; and of
the compensation of wagon and forage masters, and of clerks to
officers of the Quartermaster’s department; and of the purchase
of heating and cooking stoves ; and of the expenses of courts-mar-
tial, military commissions, and courts of inquiry; and of mileage
and allowances to officers for the transportation of themselves and
their baggage when travelling upon duty without troops, escorts or
supplies, and of supplies for prisoners of war and such refugees as
the Secretary of War may direct to be temporarily provided for;
and of the purchase of stationery, blanks, and blank books, for
the Quartermaster’s department; and of the printing of the divi-
sion and department orders and reports; and of the proper and
authorized expenses for the movements and operations of an army
not expressly assigned to any other division or department.

The eighth division shall have charge of all inspections of the
Quartermaster’s department, and of all reports made by officers as-
signed to inspection duty, analyzing and preserving the reports as
received, and communicating through the Quartermaster General,
to the chiefs of the proper divisions such portions of these reports
as may be necessary for their information and use: Provided,
That the officers assigned to inspection duty shall have power not
only to report and to point out any errors or abuses which they
may discover in the practical operations of the Quartermaster’s de-
partment, but to give, by order of the Quartermaster General, the
orders which may be immediately necessary to correct and to pre-
vent a continuance of such abuses or errors: Provided, further,
That all such orders shall be immediately reported to the chief of
the inspection division for the approval or otherwise of the Quarter-
master General.

The ninth division shall have charge of all the correspondence,
returns, reports, and records received, filed, and preserved in. the

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office of the Quartermaster General, and of the trausmission there-
of to the several other divisions of this office, and departments of
the government.

Src. 2. And be it further enacted, That the heads of the several
divisions above mentioned shall, under the direction of the Quar-
termaster General, from time to time advertise for proposals for the
supplies necessary for the movements and operations of the several
armies, posts, detachments, garrisons, hospitals, and for other mili-
tary purposes, in newspapers having general circulation in those
parts of the country where such supplies can be most advantageously
furnished, having regard also to the places where such supplies are
to be delivered and used; and all such supplies, so purchased or
contracted for, shall be subject to careful inspection, and all cloth-
ing and camp and garrison equipage, shall be subject to a double
inspection, first, as to the quality of the material, and second, as to
the kind and character of the workmanship, which inspection shal]
in all cases be performed by a competent inspector, with suitable
assistance, who shall have had ample experience in the inspection
of cloth, clothing, knapsacks, camp and garrison equipage ; and all
payments for supplies so purchased shall be made under the diree-
tion of the officers in charge of the several divisions above men-
tioned upon receipts or certificates from the officers inspecting and
receiving such supplies prepared in such form, and attested in such
manner as may be prescribed by the Quartermaster General.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
Quartermaster General to establish depots, from time to time, at
places convenient to the principal armies in the field, for receiving
and distributing the supplies necessary for such armies, and for the
detachments, posts, and hospitals most accessible to such depots ;
and the business of inspecting, weighing, measuring, and receiving
supplies for such armies, detachments, posts, and hospitals, and of
giving receipts or certificates therefor to the persons furnishing such
supplies, shall be carried on as far as practicable at such depots;
but the Quartermaster General, or the heads of the several divisions
above mentioned, may cause such supplies to be sent from the place
of purchase directly to the quartermasters of the commands for
whose use they are procured, in any cases where it may be more
economical or advantageous so to do; and in cases where horses,
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suitable and competent inspectors shall be sent to examine the same
hefore they shall be issued and receipted for.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That when an emergency shall
exist requiring the immediate procurement of supplies for the
necessary movements and operations of an army or detachment,
and when such supplies cannot be procured from any established
depot of the Quartermaster’s department, or from the head of the
division charged with the duty of furnishing such supplies, within
the required time, then it shall be lawful for the commanding officer
of such army or detachment to order the chief quartermaster of
‘such army or detachment to procure such supplies during the con-
tinnance of such emergency, hut no longer, in the most expeditious
manner, and without advertisement: and it shall be the duty of
such quartermaster to obey such order; and his accounts of the
disbursement of moneys for such supplies shall be accompanied by
the order of the commanding officer as aforesaid, or a certified copy
of the same, and also by a statement of the particular facts and
circumstances, with their dates, constituting such emergency.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
Quartermaster General, immediately after the passage of this act,
and at least once in every month thereafter, to require from the
principal quartermasters of the several military departments and
depots, approximate statements of the aggregate amount of supplies
on hand, and estimates of the additional amounts required for the
service for the ensuing month stating at what places such supplies
will be required, and what amounts are legally contracted for but
not yet delivered. Andit shall be the duty of the heads of the
several divisions above mentioned to cause to be made purchases or
contracts for the supplies which the Quartermaster General may
estimate to be necessary in accordance with law, and all quarter-
masters shall forthwith report to the Quartermaster General, to be
referred to the heads of the several divisions above mentioned, all
contracts not yet fulfilled which they may have executed on behalf
of the United States, and all proposals which they may have re-
ecived in answer to advertisements for future supplies; and shall
hereafter regularly report to the Quartermaster General copies of
all contracts made and all. proposals received for supplies of any
kind to be furnished. If any quartermaster shall neglect or refuse,
for the space of one month, to report to the Quartermaster General

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any such contract or proposal, such neglect or refusal shall be
deemed prima facie evidence of fraud, and the pay of such quarter-
master shall be stopped until he shall have made a satisfactory ex-
planation to the Secretary of War of such neglect or refusal.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all inspectors of horses,
mules, clothing, fuel, forage, lumber, hired transports, and other
supplies of the Quartermaster’s department shall be sworn (or af-
firmed) to perform their duties in a faithful and impartial manner,
and shall for any corruption, wilful neglect, or fraud in, the perform-
ance of their duties, be liable to punishment by fine and imprison-
ment, by sentence of court martial or military commission. And if
any contractor or person furnishing such supplies or transportation
shall give, or offer to give, to any inspector of such supplies or
transportation, or to any other person for his use, directly or indi-
rectly, any money, or other valuable consideration, such person
giving, or offering to give, such money, or other valuable considera-
tion, shall forfeit to the United States the full amount of his contract
_or contracts with the United States, and the name and offence
of such person shall be published in general orders, and also in
one newspaper of general circulation nearest to his place of resi-
dence.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the six-
teenth section of the act entitled, ‘‘An act to define the pay and
emoluments of certain officers of the army, and for other purposes,’’
approved July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall
apply to all persons engaged in executing the contracts therein re-
ferred to, whether as agents of such contractors, or as claiming to
be assignees thereof, or otherwise, and to all inspectors employed
by the United States for the inspection of subsistence, clothing,
arms, ammunition, munitions of war, or other description of sup-
plies, for the army or navy of the United States: Provided, That
any person arrested to answer charges for a violation of the provi-
sions of this section, or of the act to which it is in addition, shall
be admitted to bail for his appearance to answer the charges made
against him before any court martial constituted to try him in such
sum and with such sureties as shall be designated and approved by
the judge of the district court of the district in which the arrest is
made, or the offence is charged to have been committed or any com-
missioners appointed by such court.

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Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any contractor or person
furnishing supplies, or transportation, shall give, or offer to give, or
cause to be given, to any officer or employee of the Quartermaster's
department having charge of the receipt or disposition of the sup-
plies or transportation furnished by him, or in any way connected
therewith, any money or other valuable consideration, directly or
indirectly, all contracts and charters with such person shall, at the
option of the Secretary of War, be null and void; andif any officer
or employee of the Quartermaster’s department shall knowingly
accept any such money, or other valuable consideration from such
person, he shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance, and shall be pun-
ished by fine or imprisonment, or both, as a court martial or military
commission may direct.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall become
necessary to purchase any steam or sailing vessel for the use of the
Quartermaster’s department, the same shall be first inspected by
one or more competent naval officers, detailed in accordance with
the provisions of the ‘‘Act authorizing the detail of naval officers for
the service of the War Department,’’ approved February twelve,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and all steam vessels shall be in-
spected by an officer skilled in the construction and operation of
steam machinery, in addition to the other usual inspection of such
vessels: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not
apply to steamboats or other vessels on the western rivers; but such
river steamboats or vessels shall be so inspected by competent
builders, to be designated for that purpose.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the officers placed in
charge of the several divisions, provided for by the first section of
this act, shall, during the time that they remain in such charge, each
have the rank, pay, and emoluments of a colonel in the Quarter-
master’s department: Provided, That the Quartermaster General
may, with the approval of the Secretary of War, from time to time,
and according to the necessities of the public service, change the
distribution of duties among them; and all such changes shall be
forthwith published in general orders of the War Department.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That, during the continuance
of the present rebellion, the Secretary of War may assign to duty,
as inspectors of the Quartermaster’s department, six officers, to be

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selected from the regular and volunteer officers of that staff corps.
who have served not less than one year. who shall have, wiile so
assigned and acting. the temporary rank. pay. and emoluments of
colonels of the Quartermaster’s department: and, also, when in-his
judgment it is necessary, may assign to each army in the field, con-
sisting of more than one army corps, and to each military depart-
ment, and to each principal depot, not exceeding ten in number at
any one time of the Quartermaster’s department, an officer to act as
chief or senior quartermaster of said army, military department, or
depot, who shall have, while so assigned, the temporary rank, pay,
and emoluments of a colonel of the Quartermaster’s department;
and, also, to assign to each division of two or more brigades a quar-
termaster ag division quartermaster, who, while so assigned and act-
ing. shall have the temporary rank, pay, andemoluments of a majorof
the Quartermaster’s department: Provided, That when any of said
officers is relieved from such duty, his temporary, rank, pay, and
emoluments shall cease, and he shall return to his lineal rank in the
department: And provided further, That when within the limits of
any military department there shall be not more than one army
corps, then the chief quartermaster of the army corps shall perform
also the duties of the department quartermaster.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That at least two-thirds of all
the officers of each grade or assigned rank provided for under the
provisions of this act shall be selected from among quartermasters
of the volunteer service.

Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this act be. and the same are
hereby, repealed.

Approved July 4. 1864.

V...Private Resoivrion.—No. 13.

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A RESOLUTION authorizing the settlement of the accounts of the late Captain

Daniel Hebard, of the United States Volunteers, and other officers.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That in the settlement of
the accounts of the late Captain Daniel Hebard. of the United
States Volunteers, an assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gen-
eral Gorman, the \eecretary of Waris hereby authorized and directed

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to allow and pay for the whole time said officer was actually em-
ployed and on duty in the military service of the United States,
whether before or after the date of his commission. And that the
like principle of allowance and payment be observed in the settle-

“ment of the accounts of Major William M. Este and Captain Max-
well V. Z. Woodhull, aides-de-camp on the staff of Major-General
Robert C. Schenck, from the twenty-second day of December, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-two, when they entered upon their duties on
the staff of the commanding general of the Middle Department, and
Eighth Army Corps, until the date when they respectively received
and accepted their commissions as aides-de-camp, deducting only
from the pay and allowances of Major Este what he received in any
part of that time as a Lieutenant of the twenty-sixth regiment of
Ohio volunteer infantry.

Approved July 2, 1864.

VI...Pustic Rrsoiution.—No. 39

JOINT RESOLUTION amendatory of “ An act to provide for the deficiency in
the appropriation for the pay of officers and men actually employed in the
western department or department of Missouri.”

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That when any
person or persons, holding any power of attorney or assignment exe-
cuted subsequent to August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-
three, and prior to January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, for the sum adjudged due to any officer or soldier by the
commissioners appointed under joint resolution approved February
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall have paid any
money to any officer or soldier on the faith of such power of attorney
or assignment, that the paymaster appointed to disburse the funds
appropriated by the act approved January twenty-second, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, to provide for the deficiency in the appro-
priation for the pay of officers and men actually employed in the
western department or departmert of Missouri, be, and he is hereby,
authorized and directed to pay to such person or persons the amount
thus paid to any officer or soldier, upon such attorney or assignee
making and filing an affidavit to the effect that the amount was actu-
ally paid to said officer or soldier, and upon the paymaster being

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satisfied that the amount was actually paid; and the amount paid
such attorney or assignee under this resolution shall be deducted
from the amount due said officer or soldier, anything in any previous
action of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved June 25, 1864.

VIL...Pusiic Reso.vurion.—No. 45.
JOINT RESOLUTION to provide for the publication of a full Army Register

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary
of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, in connexion
with the Army Register for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
to cause to be printed and published a full roster or roll of all field,
line and staff officers of volunteers who have been in the army of
the United States since the beginning of the present rebellion,
showing whether they are yet in the service, or have been discharged
therefrom, and giving casualties and other explanations proper for
such a Register. And to defray, in whole or in part, the (the) ex-
penses of this publication an edition of fifty thousand copies of such
enlarged Register shall be published, and may be sold to officers,
soldiers, or citizens, at a price which shall not more than cover the
actual cost of paper, printing and binding, and shall not in any case
exceed one dollar per volume.

Approved June 30, 1864.

VIIL...Pusitic Resoiurion.—No, 48.
JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of the officers of the fourth and fifth
Indian regiments.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the —
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper
accounting officers of the treasury are hereby directed to adjudicate
and settle the claims of those officers of the fourth and fifth Indian
regiments who were commissioned by the War Department, and
accepted their appointments, for such time as they or either of them
were actually performing duty other than that of recruiting for said
regiments, and to pay such claims out of any moneys in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That no compensa-
tion shall be allowed beyond the pay and emoluments incident to

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the respective rank of the several officers; nor shall any claim be
considered or allowed except accompanied by the official certificates
or orders of the commanding officer of the regular or volunteer
officers of the U. S. army assigning them to such duty.

Approved June 30, 1864.

[X...Pusiic ResoLurion.—No. 55.
A RESOLUTION in relation to the professors of the Military Academy at
West Point.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the thirty-first section
of the, act, entitled ‘‘ An act for enrolling and calling out the
national forces, and for other purposes,’’ approved March third,
eighteen hundred and sixty-three, are the eleventh section of ‘‘an
act to increase the pay of soldiers in the United States army, and
for other purposes,’’ approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, shall not be construed to abridge the privileges usually
allowed to the professors of the Military Academy of being absent
during the suspension of the ordinary academic studies of that
institution.

Approved July 2, 1864.

X...Pustic Reso.tution.—No. 56. ,

A RESOLUTION explanatory of an act entitled ‘An act to increase the pay
of soldiers in the United States Army, and for other purposes,” approved
June twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the word ‘ musi-
cians,’’ in the first section of an act entitled ‘‘an act to increase the

_pay of soldiers in the United States Army, and for other purposes,”’
approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is not
to be construed to include musicians (other than leaders, ) employed
as members of Brigade and Regimental Bands; but such members
of bands shall be paid as heretofore, one-fourth of the members of
each band, thirty-four dollars per month, one fourth of them,
twenty dollars per month, and the remaining half of them, seven-
teen dollars per month.

Approved July 2, 1864.

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XI...Pusnic Reso.tvriox.—No. 57.
A RESOLUTION to increase the compensation of Matrons in the Hospitals.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of Americain Congress assembled, That, from and after the
first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, hospital matrons
shall be entitled to, and shall receive, ten dollars per month and

one ration.
Approved July 4, 1864.

XIL...Pusiic Reso.turion.—No. 60.
JOINT RESOLUTION explanatory of a Joint Resolution relative to pay of
staff officers of the Lieutenant-General.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Joint
Resolution relative to pay of staff officers of the Lieutenant-Gen-
eral, approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall
be so construed as to entitle all the staff officers on the staff of the
Lieutenant-General to receive the pay, emoluments, and allowances
of cavalry officers of the same grade.

Approved July 4, 1864.

By orDER OF THE SECRETARY OF War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

Assistant Adjutant. General.