The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-25
CHAP. XLVII.


An Act to provide for the Appointment of SUIT
lers in the volunteer Service, andt define their
Duties.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
personalities of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the inspector generals
OF the army shall constitute board of officers,
whose duty it shall be to prepare, Immediately
after the passage of this act, list schedule of
the following articles which may be sold by suit
lers to the officers and soldiers of the volunteer
service, to wit Apples, dried apples, oranges
figs, lemons, butter, cheese, milk, syrup, molas-
ses, raisns, candles, crackers, wallets, brooms
c9mf as boots pocket looking,glasses, pins,
norm and brass buttons, newspapers, books, to-
bacco, cigars, pipes, matches, backing, backing
brushes, clothes brushes, tooth brushes, hair
brushes, coarse and fine combs, emery crocus
pocket handk erchiefs. stationery, armor oil sweet
OIL, rotten stone, razor strops, raZors, shaving
soap, soap, s1spenders, scissors, shoestrings,
needles, thread, knives, pencils, and Bristol
brick Said list or schedule shall be subject from
time to time, to such revision and change as, in
the Judgment of the said board, the good of the
service may equire Provided, always, That no
intoxicating liquors shall at any time be contain
ed therein, or the sale of such liquors be in any
way authorized by said board. A copy of said
list or schedule, and of any subsequent change
therein, together with copy of this act shall be
without delay, furnished by said board to the
commanding officer of each brigade and of each
regiment not attached to any brigade in the vol
unteer service, and also to the Acknowledgement of
the army.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted That i'm
mediately upon the receipt from said board of
said list or schedule and copy of this act by the
commanding officer of any such brigadier-Sener-
al, surgeon, quartermaster, and commissary of
saLo nrlgaae shall constitute board of officers
whose duty it shall be to affX to each article in
said List or schedules price, said brigade which
shall be by them forthwith reported to the com
sa;d oIncer OF the division. if any, to which
SAID brigade is attached, for his approval with
or without modification, and who SHALL after such
approval report the same to the inspector-gener-
ans ahs,, ana me same, fnot disapproved by Them
s ! De the price not exceeding which said ar
ncles may be sold to the officers and soldiers in
SAD brigade Whenever any brigade shall not
oe attacned TO division said prices shall then be
reported directly to the nspeetor-generals and if
approved by them, shall be the price fixed for
sucn brigade as aforesaid and whenever any regi-
ne me snali be unattached to any brigade the act
ng coionel, llentenant-colonel, major, and cap
Jams Inereof shall constitute the board of officers
Dy whom the price of said article shall he fixed
LOT saia regiment in the same manner as is herein
PROVIDED Tor an unattached brigade. The prices
SO nxeo may DE changed by said boards respect
Mely from time to time, not oftener than once in
Inrty Gays, but all changes there in shall be re-
ported IN IKE manner and for the same purpose
as when originally fixed
SEC: .. And be it further enacted, That it
s snai DE Inc duty OF the eommading officer of
Sacn Drlgaoe, immediately upon receipt of copy
OF aid list or schedule and copy of this act, as
PROVIDED, TO cause ne sutler for each regi-
E IN ms brigade to be Sc leeted by the commits
stoned OH GERS of such regiment which selection
s. 81 ~ De by him reported to the Acknowledgement
or Sne army the person selected shall be sole
S ofsnar OF said regiment And the commanding
rnaH VI each unatta ched regiment SHALL in like
fr aO, cause selection Of sutler to he made
regi Sa regiment, who shall be sole sutler of said
aSy na,1 ANY vacancy in the office of sutler from
- Sause snail be filled in the same Way as an or
iginal appointment -ie p" ~ as Oh Vi
s5 aec: 81 And be it further enacted, That the
ed;,9 sosen In the manner provided in the pre-
Inc pay OF the officers, non-commissioned oficers.
ana and prlvates OF the regiment for which he has
which he has been appointed, and for no Greater e
sum SUI than one sixth of the monthly pay Of each
o1ncer, non-commissioned officer, or priyated for
artleles sold during each month and the amonnt
OF one sixth or less than one sixth of the nav nf
s so ofneer commissioned officer or private
SO sold to him by the suffer- shall be CHARGED ~
Inc payrolls of such officer, non-commission cd
omcer, or private, and deducted from his nav
'lud PAID over by the paymaster to the sutler ~