New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-11

advanced or lost numbers on the Navy
Register shall be considered as having
gained or lost length OF service accord.
ingly: And provided further. mat chle1s OF
bureau may be appointed from officers hav-
ing the relative rank OF captain In the stan
corps of the navy on the active nst:
And provided further, That no stan
officer shall, in virtue OF his relatlVe
rank or precedence, have any addltnnaI
right to quarters And provided TURNER,
That any staff officer of the navy who mas
performed the duty of chief of "a bureau OF
the Navy Department for full term shall
thereafter be exempt from sea duty. except
in time of war.
SEC. II. That officers of the medical, pay,
and engineer corps chaplains, and profess
ors of mathematics, and also constructors,
who shall have served faithfully forforty-hve
years, shall, when retired, have the relative
rank of commodore and officers OF these
several corps who have been or shall be re-
tired at the age of sixtytwo years, before
having served for fOrty-tive years. out who
shall have served faithfully until retired,
on the completion of forty years from their
entry into the service, shall also, from that
time, have the relative rank OF commodore
| and staff officers who have been or shall be
retired for causes incident to the service,
| before arriving at sixty-twO years OF age,
| shall have the same rank on the retired list
| as pertained to their position on the active
list; provided, however, that nothing con-
| tanned in this section shall be construed TO
increase the pay now provided for said sew
eral staff officers
SEC. ~. That the chiefs of the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery, Provisions and
| Clothing Steam Engineering, and Con-
struction and Repair, shall have the relative
rank of commodore while holding said posi-
ton Tor if heretofore or hereafter retired
therefrom by reason of age or length OF
Il.
title of Surgeon General, Paymaster Cen
eral. Engineer-in- Chief and Chief Con-
structor; provided, that when the office OF
chief of bureau is filled by line ofheer
below the rank of commodore, said ot11eer
shall have the relative rank of commodore
during the time he holds said office; and
provided further, that the pay OF chiefs
of bureau in the Navy Department shall be
the highest pay of the grade to which they
belong. but not below that of commodore;
and officers of the staff now on the retired
list shall have the rank thereon to which
they would have been entitled had they re-
manned in the active list, unless they shall
be entitled to higher rank. That com
manding officers of vessels of war and
of naval stations shall take precedence
over all officers placed under their COM
mand. and the Secretary OF the Navy
may, in his discretion, detail a line officer
to act as the aid or executive OF the com
manding officer of vessel OF war, or
naval station, which officer shall, when not
impracticable, be next in rank to said COM
manding officer, and who, as such aid or ex-
ecutive shall, while executing the orders OF
the commanding officer, on board such ves-
sci, or at such station, take precedence over
all officers attached to such vessel or
station; and all orders of such aid or execu-
tive shall be regarded as proceeding from
the commanding officer: and such aid or eX-
cI, bay 1anauHpDt an lOrI-V
in consequence of such detail: and staff
officers, senior to the officer so detailed,
shall have the right to communicate directly
with the commanding officer, and in process
sions on shore, on courts martial, summary
courts, courts of inquiry. boards OF survey,
and all other boards, line and staff officers
shall take preceeence according to rank.
SEC. 10. That all acts and parts OF acts
inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
Approved March 3, 1871.
GENERAL NATUEE-No. AL
AN ACT making appropriations to supply
deficiencies in the appropriations for the
service of the government for the fiscal
years ending June thirty, eighteen hun
dred and seventy and June thirty. eight
cen hundred and seventy-One, and Tor
former years. and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums or so much thereof as may
be necessary, be, and the same are hereby,
appropriated for the objects hereinafter ex-
pressed, namely:
SENATE.
To pay an additional assistant engineer
authorized by the Senate, at the rate OF one
thousand four hundred and forty dollars
per annum, commencing on the first day of
December, eighteen hundred and seventy,
for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day
of June. eighteen hundred and seventy-one,
eight hundred and forty dollars.
For steam-pump for the heating and ven
tilating apparatus of the Senate, under the
direction of the Sergeant-at-arms, one
thousand dollars.
For expenses of heating and ventilating
apparatus of the Senate, one Thousand. dol
lars
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
For carriage, three thousand dollars.
For laborers, one thousand six hundred
dollars.
For furniture, and repairs thereof, two
thousand dollars.
For fuel, two thousand dollars.
For paying teller in the office of the Ser
geant-at-arms, one thousand two hundred
and twenty dollars.
For the miscellaneous item of the contin-
gent fund of the House, ten thousand dol
lars.
For the following sums, due under resolu-
lions of the House passed during the first
session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, name
": To the late first assistant doorkeeper,
eight hundred and forty dollars: to the super
intendent of the document room, eight hun
dred and forty dollars; and to f. Spicer,
late superintendent of the folding room,
seven hundred and twenty dollars: to John
j. McElhone, William Hincks, w Blair
Lord ID. Wolfe Brown, Theodore F. An
drews, and William Henry Burr, reporters
for the Congressional Globe during the first
session of the Thirty ninth Congress, seven
hundred dollars each; in all, six thousand
four hundred dollars, additional compensa-
ton for the Thirty-ninth Congress
For compensation of the tally of the
House OF Representatives, from the first day
OF February, eighteen hundred and seventy,
to the first day of july eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, six hundred and twelve
dollars, the same making his compensation
equal to that of his predecessor tR L. Sher-
man ana as fixed III the legislative bill for
himself
To pay Rives and Bailey for the reporting
and publication of the debates and proceed
ings of the Forty first Congress, under the
JOINT resolution approved March three,
eighteen hundred and sixty nine, and con-
tract OF April fourteen, eighteen hundred
ana slXty-nlne, so far as may have been
provided for by law, one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary
PUBLIC BUILDINGS UNDER THE
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.