The tri-weekly standard., 1866-11-03

PUBLIC ACTS.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President HANNIBAL HAM
LIN, Vice President and President of the Sen
ate. SOLOMON FooTE was elected President
of the Senate, pro tenspore, on the eighteenth,
day of July, and continued so to act until the
close of the session. GALUsHA A. GROW,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHAP. CXXXIH.-(Conclud
For repairs and improvements and new
machinery at the national armory at Spring
field, Massachusetts,, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For the purchase of gunpowder and lead,
one million one hundred thousand dollars.
For additions to and extension of shop
room, machinery, TOOLS and fixtures at arse
nails, five hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase and manufacture of arms
for volunteers and regulars, and ordnance
and ordnance stores, thirteen million dol
lars.
For surveys of military defences. one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of instruments,
ten thousand dollars.
For printing charts of lake surveys, ten
thousand dollars
For continuing the survey of the northern
and northwestern lakes, including Lake Su-
pcrior one hundred and five thousand dol
lars.
For completion of Fort Clinch, Amelia
Island, Florida, one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars.
For secret service fund and to reimburse
the contingent fund of the army five hun
dred thousand dollars.
For payment of bounty to volunteers and
to the widow and legal heirs of such as may
die or be killed in the service of the United
States, authorized by the fifth and sixth
sections of an act entitled IAN act to au-
thorize the employment of volunteers to aid
in enforcing the laws and protecting public
property" approved July twenty second,
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, twenty mil
lions of dollars, or so much thereof as may
be found necessary.
For collecting, organizing, and drilling
volunteers, in addition to any sums hereto
fore appropriated for that purpose, five mil
lions of dollars.
For providing for the comfort of dis
charged soldiers who may arrive in the prin-
cipal cities of the United States so disabled
by disease or by wounds received in the ser
vice as to be unable to proceed to their
homes, two millions of dollars, to be applied
and expended under the direction of the
President of the United States
For enlarging, repairing, and furnishing
the Northwest Executive Building, twenty
Thousand dollars
For grading and improving that part of
Judiciary Square in the city of Washington,
upon which the general hospital of the Uni
ted States is located, four thousand dollars,
to be expended under the direction of the
Surgeon General.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so
much of the seventh section of the act ap-
proved third March, eighteen hundred and
fifty-one, entitled " An act to found a mill
tary asylum for the relief and support of in
valid and disabled soldiers of the army of
sAo1 ~
moneys, not exceeding two-thirds of the
balance on hand, of the hospital fund and
of the post fund of each military station, af-
ter deducting the necessary expenses" shall
be set apart for the support of the military
asylum, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec g. And be it further enacted, That the
enlisted men of the Ordnance Department
now designated as master workmen shall
hereafter be designated and mustered as
geants; those now designated as armorers,
crrriage-makers and blacksmiths, shall be
designated and mustered as corporals; those
now designated as artifcers shall be desi g
mated and mustered as privates of the first
class and those now designated as laborers
shall be designated and mustered as pri-
Yates of the second class Provided, That
the pay. ratiOns, and clothing now author
lied by law to the respective grades of en-
listed ordnance men shall not he changed.
in all cases where recruiting officers have in
good faith paid the two dallars for bringing
accepted recruits to the rendezvous, before
receiving notice of the repeal of the regula
ton allowing the same. the accounts of such
officers shall be allowed in settlement by the
Treasury Department.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
there shall be added to- the clerical force of
the Surgeon-General'so Office one clerk of class
one and one, clerk of class two; and there
shall be added to the clerical force of the
PaymasterG Generals office twenty clerks of
class two and twenty clerks of class one;
and there shall be added to the clerical and
other force of the Adjutant-Generarso Office
four clerks of class two, six clerks of class
one and ten other clerks, at a monthly
compensation of sixty dollars each; and the
Adiutant-G General may detail ten more non
commissioned officers of the army as clerks
in his office; and the sum of fifty-one thou
sand two hundred dollars is hereby appro-
priated, out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated to pay the sala-
ries of the clerks hereby authorized.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
section five of the act ''to authorize the en-
ployment of volunteers to aid in enforcing
the laws and protecting public property"
approved July twenty-second, eighteen hun
dred and sixty -One, and section fiXe of the
act ito increase the present military estab-
lshment of the United States" approved
July twenty nine, eighteen hundred and six
ty-one, shall be so construed as to allow
twenty-five dollars of the bounty ofone hun
dred dollars therein provided to be paid i'm
mediately after enlistment to every soldier of
the regular and volunteer forces hereafter en-
listed during the continuance of the existing
war; and the sum of seven millions five hun
dred thousand dollars is hereby appropriat-
ed for such payment.
Sec. Z. And be it further enacted, That
all the aides-de-camp appointed by autho-
rity of the act approved fifth August, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-one, entitled can
act supplementary to an act entitled an act
to increase the present military establish
ment of, the United States" approved July
twenty nine, eighteen hundred and sixty
one. shall be nominated to the Senate for its
advice and consent.