, 1868-10-30
IPrRLfC-No. CAL


AN Act to continue the Bureau for the Relief OF
Freedmen and Refugees, and for other purposes
n, II enacted Bv The Senate and House Of Repre-
sentqtipes of the United States Of America IN ConN
oress assembled That the act entitled " An act
to establish Bureau for the Relief OF freedmen
and Refugees" approved March three, eighteen
hundred and sixty five, and the act entitled " An
act to continue 10 force and to amend An act
to stsblish Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen
and Refugees and for other purposes, passed
on the sixteenth Of July, anuo Domini eighteen
hundred Aad sixty-six, shall continue IN force
for the term of Que year from "uu aI'er tIe SIX
teenth of July, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and sixty. EIGHT, excepting so far as the
same shall be herein modified. And the Secre-
tary of War is hereby directed to re-establish
said bureau where the same has been wholly or
in part discontinued Provided, That be shall
be satisfied that the personal safety OF freedmen
shall require it,
be the duty of the Secretary of War to discontin-
ne the operations of the bureau in any State
whenever such State shall be fully restored in
its constitutional relations with the government
of the United States, and shall be duly rePre>
sented in the Congress of the United States, un-
less, upon advising with the Commissioner OF the
bureau, and upon full consideration OF the con~
dtion of freedmen's affairs in such State, the
Secretary of War shall be Of opinion that the
further continuance of the bureau snail be nee
essary Provided, hodgeUer, That the educational
division of said bureau shall not be affected, or
in any way interfered WITH until such State shall
have made suitable provision for the education
of the children OF freedmen within said State.
SEC 3. ARd be ii further enacted, That unex-
peuded balances in the hands of the Commits
sioner, not required otherwise for the due exc
cution of the law, may be, n the discretion of
the Commissioner, applied for the education of
freedmen and refugees, subject to the provisions
of laws applicable thereto.
Sec A. and be it further enacted That offs
GERS of the Veteran Reserve Corps or of the vol
uuteer service, now on duty in the Freeedmens
Bureau as assistant commissioners, agents, med
ical officers, or in other capacities, who have
been or may be mustered out of service, may be
retained by the Commissioner, when the same
shall be required for the proper execution Of the
laws as officers OF the bureau, upon such duty
and with the same pay, compensation, and all
allowances, from the date OF their appointment
as now provided by law for their respective
grades and duties at the dates of their muster
out and discharge and such officers retained
shall have, respectively, the same authority and
jurisdiction as now conferred upon " officers OF
the bureau " by act of Congress passed the
sixteenth of July, in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty.six.
Sec. 3. ARd be it further enacted That the
Commissioner is hereby empowered to sell fol
cash, or by instalments with ample security
school buildings and all other buildings con
structed for refugees and freedmen by the bu'
reau, to the associations, corporate bodies, o.
trustees who now use them for purposes of edu
cation or relief OF want, under suitable guaran
tees that the purposes for which such building!
were constructed shall be observed: ProUided
That all funds derived therefrom shall be re
turned to the bureau appropriation aud account
ed for to the treasury of the United States.
SCHUYLER COLFAX.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
B. f. WADE.
President of the Senate pro tempore,
Endorsed by the President: "Received Jun
Gath, 1865"
NoTE THE DEPARTaEST OF STATE.-Th
foregoing act having been presented to the Presi
dent of the United States for his approval, an
not having been returned by him to the hous
of Congress in which it originated within tn
time prescribed by the Constitution of the Unite
States, has become law without his approval.