Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-10-10

corps or military department there shall be
one captain and as many licutenants, not ex-
ceeding eight, as the President may deem
necessary to be appointed by the President,
by and with the advice and consent OF the
Senate, who shall receive the pay and emol-
umcnts of cavalry officers of similar grades !;
and for each officer of the signal corps there
may be enlisted or detailed one sergeant and
six privates, who shall receive the pay of
similar gralcs of engineer soldiers: Pr"r-
! d,,l, That no officer or enlisted man shall be
allowed to serve in the signal corps until he
shall have been examined and approved by
military board, to be convened for that pur-
pose by the Secretary Of War.
Sec. Is. -And br il FURTHER c~arted, That
the officers and enlisted men herein provided
for shall be subject to the rules and articles
of war. They may be mounted upon horses,
the property of the United States, and shall
serve in any military department, or with any
forces to which they may be ordered. And
officers of the army who may be appointed
in this corps may, after the rebellion, be re-
stored to their respective regiments or corps,
and receive the same rank and promotion as
if he had continued to serve therein.
Sec. 10. and be- 1t ./arthcr enacfca, That
there shall be appointed in the office OF the
signal. officer two clerks of class two. And in
selecting officers and men for the organiza-
ton of the signa-corps, as herein provided.
preference shall be given to such as have
served faithfully, or as arc now serving i'll
the acting signal-corps Of the army.
Sec. go. And be it .farfher enacted, That
in order to allow time for their thorough ex-
animation. the President may appoint the
officers authorized by this act during tho re:
cess of Congress; which appointments shall
be submitted to tho Senate at their next SEES
sion for their advice and consent.
Sec. 81. A~d be II ./1rther enacted, That
the sum of thirteen thousand dollars be, and
the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid
out ofany money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, for econstructing tho
bridges and market house in Georgetown,
built a cross the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
and for raising the same as to open a convenient
outlet to the trade of tho canal to the Poto-
mac River in place of that which has been
interrupted by the occupation of the aqucduct
CONNECTING the Chesapeake and Ohio. and the
Alexandria Canals, as bridge for the trans
portation of supplies forthe army of the United
States across said river; said sum to be ex-
pended under tho direction of the President
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
Sec. %. And be It further enacted, That
the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is
hereby directed, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay
to the Governor of the State of Minnesota, or
his duly authorized agent, the costs, charges,
and ex penses properly incurred by said State
in suppressing Indian hostiltics within said
State and upon its borders, in the year eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-two, not exceeding
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to DO
sett ed upon proper vouchers to be filed and
passed upon by the proper accounting officers
of the treasury: Proridcd, That, in deter
mining the claims to be allowed under this
act, the same principles, rules and regua-
tons shall be observed by tho accounting
officers in auditing said expenses as have been
applied to the claims allowed to states under
the act approved July twenty -sevcnth, eigh.
teen hundred and sixty.one, entitled can act
to indemnify the States for expenses incurred
bv them in defence of tho United Siates.'
Sec. 90. And be 1t further enacted, That
so much of the act approved the eighteenth of
August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, enti-
tied AN act to regulate the diplomatic and
consular systems of the United States as
prohibits the granting of passports to any
other than citizens of the United States,
shall be, and is hereby repealed, so far as
that prohibition may embrace any class of per-
sons liable to military duty by the laws of
the United States.
Sec. "a. Ind be 1t further enacted, That
the President Of the United States be, and he
is hereby authorized, whenever in his judy
ment the public interest may so require, to
discontinue the consulate of the United States
at Trinidad de Cuba, and to appoint at Cen-
fuegos, in that island. consul with the same
salary and emoluments as those now allowed
by law to the consul at Trinidad dc Cuba.
Sec. 25. and BIZ 1t tWMer enacted, That
every !udge-advocate of court-martial or
court Of inquiry hereafter to DO constituted,
shall have power to issue the like process to
compel witnesses to appear and testify which
courts Of criminal jurisdiction within the
state. territory, or district where such military
courts shall be ordered to sit may lawfully is.
sue.
APPROVED, March Sd, 1868.