The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-04-18
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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty.
seUeath Congress.
CPUB1rc-NO. AL

AN ACT to provide for the appointment OF
suffers in the volunteeE service, and TO
define their duties.
Be it enacted By the Senate and HoaEss Of
Representatives. Of the United States of
America tB Congress assembled, That the
inspector generals of the army shall consti-
tute board of officers, whose duty it shall
be to prepare, Immediately after the passage
of this act, q list or schedule of the follow
ing articles, which may be sold by suffers
to the officers and soldiers of the volunteer
service, to-wit: Apples, dried apples, or
anges, figs, lemons, butter, cheese, milk,
syrup, molasses, raisins, candles, crackers,
wallets, brooms, comforters, boots, pocket
looking-glasses, pins, gloves, leather, tin
wash-basins, shirt buttons, horn and brass
buttons, newspapers, books, tobacco, cigars,
pipes, matches, blacking, brushes, clothes
brushes, tooth brushes, hair brushes, coarse
and Gne combs, emery, crocus, pocket
handkerchief, stationery, armor oil, sweet
oil, rotten stone, razor strops, razors, shaw
ing soap, soap, suspendors, scissors, shoe-
strings, needles, thread, knives, pencils, and
Bristol brick. Said list or schedule shall
be subject, from time 10 time, to such revis-
ion and change as, in the judgment of the
said board, the good of the service may re-
quire: Provided, GlO0Gys, That no intoxi-
eating liquors shall at any time be contain
ed therein, or the sale of such liquors be in
any way authorized by said board. A copy
of said list or schedule, and of any subse-
quent change therein, together with copy
of this act, shall be, without delay, fur
aished by said board to the commanding
officer of each brigade, and of each regi-
meut not attached to any brigade in the
volunteer service, and also to the adjutant
general of the army.
SEC 2. And be IL further enacted, That,
Immediately upon the receipt from said
board of said list or schedule and copy of
this act by the commanding officer of any
such brigade, the acting brigadier general,
surgeon, quartermaster, and commissary of
said brigade shall constitute board of Off
GERS whose duty it shall be to affix to each
article in said list or schedule a price for
said brigade, which will be by them forts
| with reported to the commanding officer of
the division if any, to which said brigade
| is attached, for his approval, with or with
out modification, and who shall, after such
approval, report the same to the inspector
generals, and the same, if not disappFov-
| ed by them shall be the price not exceeding
which said articles may be sold to the Off
GERS and soldiers in said brigade. When
4 ever any brigade shall not be attached to a
division said prices shall then be reported
| directly to heinspector generals, and flap
| proved by them shall be the price fixed for
such Sbrigade Jas aforesaid; and when
ever any regiment shall be unattached to
any brigade the acting colonel, lieutenant
colonel, major, and captains thereof shall
constitute the board Of officers by whom
| the price of said articles shall be fixed for
/ said regiment in the same manner as is
herein provided for an unattached brigade.
| The price SO fixed may be changed by said
boards respectively from time to time, not
oftener than once in thirty days, but all
| changes therein shall be reported in like
manner and for the same purpose as when
originally fixed.
SEC. 8, .And be ft further enacted, That
it shall be the duty OF the commanding Of
! ficer of each brigade, Immediately upon re-
| ceipt of copy of said list or schedule and
eopy of this act, as herein provided, to
| cause one sutler for each regiment in his
brigade to be selected by the commissioned
! officers of such regiment, which election
| shall be by him reported to the adjutant
| general of the army; the person SO select
ed shall be sole sutler Ofsaid regiment. And
the commanding officer of each unattached
regiment shall, in like manner, cause a Sc
lection Of a sutler to be made for said reg
imenL, who shall be sole sutler of said reg
imeat. Any vacancy in the Office of sutleE
from any eeuse shall be filed in the same
/ way as an original appointment.
Sec, 4. And be 10 further enacted, Thai
the suffers chosen in the manner provided
in the preceding section shall be allowed
lien only upon she psy OF the officers