The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-03

1.-THE Assistant Secretary Of War, Assistant Score.
each. SIS GOO; and the Treasurer OF the Confederate
STATES, $3.50. es- tss4ssa.ex
.sThe register Of the treasury, comptroller, audi
tori, chiefs Of ths finance, appointment and eon-
tract bm,paux u the post-olfice department. the
chief Of the treasury note bureau tie chief Of the
bureau Of war, the superintendent OF public print
ing, the commissioner Of patents, the commissioner
Of taxes, each, s. ,Vt".
"Ihc chief Of the produce loan, the commission
cr OF Indian affairs, the chief clerks in the scve-
raj executive departments, and the Disturbing
clerks Of the War and Treasury departments, each,
$4,000. :.
clerk of the War Department. the private secretary
Of the President and the chief clerks in the seve.
raj burcaux. and the principal clerk in the Office
OF tho. superintendent Of public printing, each,
$1,000
sAll clerks, whether civil, detailed or retired, in
the several executive dep tments in any of their
branches; officers Of the Government in the city
Of Xxi, hmoTd and at Camp Lee. $i,00H
Gan messengers in the several executive DEPART
cnts or in any Of their branches, and i'll the Pre-
s,den,'s Office, each, s3,@0.
'.The postmaster in the city post-ofIicc, s. 900
the assistant postmaster, $4,000; the chiet clerk,
s6oco: all other clerks in the city post-otilce, civil
or detailed, 81, 600.
"The chief collector Of the Confederate tax in
Virginia, one-tenth Of one per cent. on the amount
collected in each State: Pr0rided That in no case
shall tho salary be less than two thousand, nor
more than seven thousand dollars.''
"a BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE LIGHTING AND WARM
IN,i TUE ExEcUTIyE MANSION, AND FOR TUE
SUPPLY OF FoNAcE AND CoMNIssARy STORES FOR
the USE or TIVE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF THE
ARMY AND NAVY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.
"Thc Congress ofthc Confederate States If Amc-
rio" do enact, That it shalt be the duty of the
Qutrtermaster General to furnish to the Com-
mander- n-Chief of the Army ard Navy Of the
Confederate States the commissary supplies,
and upon the same terms, as now allowed by
law to commissioned officers i'll the field and the
quantity Of coWInissary supplies allowed to be drawn
and purchased BY the COMMANDMENT Chief shall BE-
doIlAe the quantity allowed to a general IN the
field: Tforidea, That in case hereafter the annual
salary of the said CeiEinsnder-in-Chief shall be
paid in par funds, the value OF the ioiagc ana sub
si,tence given him by this net, and which may be
furnished during the period in which payment Of
sale, salary in par funds is made. shall be deducted
from said salary in the settlement OF his accounts
"SntrroN >. This act shall continue in force only
durin. the existence of the waT"
The House also took up and passed Il
bll increasing the pay Of female ems
ployccs Of the Government. The bill
provides as follows:
81. Females employed as clerks in the cIothing
branch Of the QutrteTnitsters Department, or i'll
any hospital, shall be allowed and paid the same
salary clerks in other departments i,orided.
That such may be employed as clerk Sln hospitals
may accept in lieu thereof the ray and ALLOWANCES
hereinafter granted to chief mdtrons OF hospitals.
-. Chief matrons, assistant NATIONS, ward mas
tiers and nurses shall be- allowet hundred per
cent. additional pay, aud when quarters and fuel
are not furnished them, they shall be allowed COM
mutation FOR the same at the rate of tol
each matron and nurse, and one and half cords
of wood per month in winter and three-quuters Of
Il cord per month i'll summer.
"3. All females employed IN the clothing bran,
Of the Quarte1master's Department as cutters shall
be allowed eyentyre per cent. additional pay, and
all such employees engaged III maxim. clothing, etc
shall be allowed hundred per cent. additional
pay.
d. All females employed in making cartridge.
shall be allowed one hundred per cent. additional
pay. and shall be allowed, 1t practicable, to pur-
chase one ration each, and cord Of wood pc,
month during winter, and half cord during sum
as. The Secretary OF War IL required, if it can
he done without prciudicc to the public service &c
allow the persons embraced in the second, third and
fourth paragraphs Of this act to purchase at cos,
price such domestic cloth or cotton goods as may bt
necessary for clothing tor themselves"
Mr.. McMullin, Of Virginia, requested
the reporters to take note that he voted
against the bill.
The House then went into secret ses
sion. The doors being re-cpened, the
House adjourned.