The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-13
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SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the fol-
lowing sums be, and the same arc hereby appro-
priatcd, out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, for the support of the
Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands, for the fiscal year commencing July first,
eighteen hundred and siXty-siX, namely:
The salaries of assistant and sub-assistant COM
missioners, one hundred and forty y-seven thousand
five hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks, eighty-two thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For stationery and printing, sixty three thou
sand dollars.
For quarters and fuel fifteen thousand nine
hundred dollars.
For clothing for distribution, one million one
hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For commissary stores, three million one hun
dred and six thousand two hundred and fifty dol
lars.
For medical department, five hundred thousand
dollars.
For transportation, one million three hundred
thousand dollars.
For school superintendents, twenty-one thou
sand dollars
For repairs and rent of school-houses and asy-
lums, five hundred thousand dollars.
For telegraphing eighteen thousand dollars.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the
Qurtermaster's department shall in all cases in
obtaining supplies for the military service, state
in advertisements for bids for contracts, that
preference shall be given to articles of domestic
production and manufacture, conditions of price
and quality being equal, and that such preference
shall be given to articles of American production
and manufacture, produced on the Pacific coast,
to the extent of the consumption required by the
public service there; ana III advertising 1Or army
supplies the Quartermasters department shall re-
quire all articles which to be used in the
States and Territories of the Pacific coast to be
delivered and inspected at points designated in
lhose States and Territories; and the advertise
ments for such supplies shall be published in
newspapers of the cities of San Francisco, in
California, and Portland, in Oregon.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That section
seventeen of an act entitled IAN act to define the
pay and emoluments of certain officers of the
army" approved July seventeenth, Eighteen hun
dred and sixty-two, and resolution entitled "a
resolution to authorize the President to the
ment, to officers of the same grade without re-
gard to seniority" approved, April fourth, eigh-
teen hundred and siXty-two, be and the same are
hereby repealed. And no officer in the military
or naval service shall in time of peace, be dis
missed from service except upon and in pursu-
ance of the sentence of a court-martial to that
effect, or in commutation thereof.
Sec. 6. And be 1t further enacted, That the
superiutendent of the United States Military
Academy may hereafter be selected, and the Off
GERS duty at that institution detailed from any
arm of the service; and the supervision and
charge of the Academy shall be in the War De-
partInent under such officer or officers, as the
Secretary of War may assign to that duty.
SEC. z. And be it further enacted, That when 1t
is necessary to employ soldiers as artiicers or la
borers in the construction of permanent military
works, public roads, or other constant labor of
not less than ten days duration in any case they
shall receive in addition to their regulsr pay, the
listed men, working as artiticers, and non-com-
missioned officers employed as overseers OF such
work, not exceeding one overseer for every twen-
ty men, thirty five cents per day, and enlisted
men employed as labOrerS twenty cents per DAY !;
but such working parties shall only be author
| ized on the written order of a commanding Off
Ger. This allowance of extra pay is not to apply
| to the troops of the engineer and ordnance de-
partments.
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