Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-05-18
Approved, March 3, 1865.
TPUBLIC-No, 57.l

AN ACT to amend the several acts heretofore
passed to provide for the enrolling and call
ing out the national forces, and for other
purposes.
BE u enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatires Of The United Sidtes Of America ia Con-
gress assembled. That the measure of allow
ance for pay for an officers servant is the pay
of a private soldier as fixed by law at the time;
that no non-commissioned officer shall be de-
tailed or employed to act as a servant, nor
shall any private soldier be so detailed or en-
ployed except with his own consent that for
each soldier employed as a servant by any Of
icer there shall be deducted from the month
ly pay OF such officer the full monthly pay
and allowances of the soldier 50 employed
aud that, including any soldier or soldiers SO
employed, no officer shall be allowed for any
greater number OF servants than is now pro-
vided by law, nor le allowed for any servant
not actually and in fact in his employ.
Sec. ,. And he a further enacted, That non
commissioned olicers and privates in the vol
unteer service shall receive the same amount
| OF clothing rs non-commssioned officers and
| privates OF the same arm of the regular army.
| Sec. 3. Ind be ii further euacted, That ii u
soldier, discharged for wounds received in bat
| tie, die before receiving the lounty provided
/ 10y the act of March third, eighteen hundred
and siXty-three, entitled An act to amend
an act to authorize the employment of volun-
teers, and SO forth the bounty due shall be
paid to the following persons. and in the or
der following and to no other person, to wit :
first, to the widow of such deceased soldier,
if there be one; second, il there be no widow,
then to the childrtn Of such deceased soldier,
share and share alike; third. il such soldier
left neither widow, or child or children, then
and in That case such bounty shall be paid
to the following persons. provided they be res
idents of the United States, to wit first, to
| his father or if he shall not be living, or
has abandoned the support of his family, then
| to the mother of such soldier; and il there
| be neither father or mother as aforesaid, then
such bounty shall be paid to the brothers and
sisters of the deceased soldier, resident as
aforesaid.
Sec. 4. .iad Be IL further enacted, That ev-
cry non-commissioned officer, private, or 9TH
er person, who has been or shall hereafter bc.
discharged from the army of the United States
1 by reason of wounds received in battle, on
skirmish, on picket, or in action. or in the
line of duty, shall be entitled to receive the
same bounty as il he bad served out his full
term and all acts and parts OF acts inconsist-
ent with this are hereby repealed.
Sec. 8. Aad Be a further enacted. That all
persons of color who were enlisted and mus
tered into the military service OF the United
States in South Carolina, by and under the
direction of Major General Hunter and Briga.
dier General Saxton, in pursuance of the au
thority nom the Secretary of War, dated Au
gust twenty-hfth, eighteen hundred and six
ty-two, that the persons so received into ser
vice, and their officers, to be entitled to ant
receive the same pay and rations as ere allow
ed by law to other volunteers in the service;
and III every case whore ii shall DC made Il
appear To the satisfaction OF the Secretary O
War that any regiment Of cVlored troops ha