The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
examinations for Military APP.
pOintrnent in the Army. r
Decisd0ss of 2dyCOssl,trolleg,
SALE OF PROPERTY NY THE
-r&, GOVERNMENT. sa~ y ,

,,,e5i-.. ~ e WASHINGTON, Oct. 16
The War Department to-day issRed the fol-
lowing regulations for the examination of APP
p1cahts for appointments in the regular army:
ISL: Boards OF Examination Of applicants for
appointment in the army will not pass any cam
9luates who have not the physical ability to en-
uure the exposures of the service, who have
any deformity of body, or whose moral habits
ere pad. This restriction in the case of officers
Ior the veteran reserve corps is modified by the
.erllls OF the act admitting such as have been
wounded in line Of their duty while serving in
the army Of the United States in the late war,
ana I VINO may yet be competent for, garrison or
been assigned
"a. candidates must, under the law, have
served two years during the war, and have
5een alstInggshed for capacity and good con-
will be confined to a fair knowledge iof arith-
metlc, reading, writing and spelling, and such
general lnteiiigence and eapaeity as will insure
reasonable efficiency asa Commissioned officer.
4tn; ANY candidates Vho mp to this date may
have been rejected by The board, are hereby
examination accordingp these regulations
In case where the addifional bounty provided
by the act Of July 28thg B66, giss claimed by the
widow Of a deceased 2tldier, she having re-
Comptroller Of the TtInsnry that ii the re-
marriage took place befxs the passage of the
act, she is entitled to rs6sfye it, III married af-
Ter the passage of tn act, then the widow
would not be entitled u the bounty. islrl glF
The President has appojnted the following
Postmasters: George E9oodrich at Fstchburg.
sf Basingssn ss Tsrs W, yIes msSy' at
Mr. Adams, our M5nister to Londbu. states
in dispatch of the 206h ult: that there was mo
case before that legatifn of an Ameridaos brow
ed to be such, being a custody in Ireland on
suspicion of being cdfcerned I'm FeniafII Inlots
or movements there$ all ID situateS lhaying
been released. fgxa ess..srsr sFf9f3 =
The United States win sen the following
property situated on he Islands of Port Row.
al, Sadia, st. Helena Booea and Harry tie
sales commencing asl.fbllows: No. 1st FORTY
four lots and houses Ii the town of Reanforrt
and nearly 800 lots id Che newly laid ont city,
of Port Royal, at th6 southwest end of AZ
Helena Island;, Deq60b&r 3D. thirty-three
school farms, all imp<6red and containing IN
the aggregate 6000 alJes i These sales are, to
be made under the az OF July 18th, 1865 which
provides that the scl<0l farms in the l,3risb Of
st. Helena, 3. c., shd be sold subject to any
leases of the same& ON or before January
ISL 1851, at not Iess&han ten d0llar3 per acre;
and lots in the city q Port Royal, and lots and
houses IN the town|pf Beaufort, which have
been bid in by the u&ited -States al tax sales.
shall be sold at publ @ipfion and the proceeds
of the sale, after PAY Y the expenses Of survey
and sales, shall be X6V66ked il United States
bonds, the interest q whlch shall 70 appropri-
ated to the support n soIlo0ls Without distfnc-
tion OF race and Ger on the Islankls in the
parishes of st. Hele&& and St. Luke.
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