New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-12

rank who nave Dccn IN Inc HaVa service SIX
wears longer than such officers of said staff
corps have been in said service: And pro-
vided further, That in estimating such
lenohth of service, officers who have been
advanced or lost numbers on the Navy
REGISTER shall be considered as having
Gained or lost length of service accord
ingly And provided further. That chiefs of
bureau may be appointed from oflcers hav-
ing the relative rank of captain In the staff
corps of the navy on the active nst;
And provided further, That no staff
officer shall, in virtue of his relative
rank or precedence, have any additional
right to quarters And provided further,
That any staff officer of the navy who has
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. H. That officers of the medical, pay,
and engineer corps, chaplains, and profess
ors of mathematics, and also constructors,
who shall have served faithfully forforty five
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 sixty-two years, before
having served for forty five years, but 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. H. 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
service), and shall have, respectively, the
title of Surgeon General, Paymaster Gen
eral, Engineer in Chief, and Chief Con-
structor; provided, that when the office OF
chief of bureau is filed by line officer
below the rank of commodore, said officer
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
handing officers of vessels of wal. 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 line officer
to act as the aid or executive of the COM
manding officer of a vessel of war, or
naval station, which officer shall, when not
impracticable. be next in rank to said COM
handing officer, and who, as such aid or ex-
ecutive, shall, while executing the orders of
no linz ntfi hna rd et1nI x-ps
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-
ecutive shall have no Independent authority
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, liue and staff officers
shall take preceeence according to rank.
SEC. Is. That all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed. s+
Approved March 8, 1871
GENERAL NATURE-No. AZ.
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 for
former years, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
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
by the Senate, at the rate of one
four hundred and forty dollars
per annum, commencing on the first day of
December, eighteen hundred and seventy.
fer 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. -l4
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
one thousand two hundred
and twenty dollars
For the miscellaneous item of the contiu-
gent fund of the House, ten thousand dol
airs.
FOR the following sums, due under resOlu-
ions of the House passed during the first
session OF the Thirty ninth Congress name
Y: To the late first assistant doorkeeper.
Eight hundred and forty dollars; to- the super.
ntendent of the document room, eight hun
ired and forty dollars; and to E. Spicer,
ate superintendent of the folding-room,
even hundred and twenty dollars; to John
). McElhone, William Hincks, w. Blair
1ord, ID. Wolfe Brown, Theodore F. An
or the Congressional Globe during the first
essiOn of the Thirty-ninth Congress. seven
lundred dollars each; in all, six thousand
our hundred dollars, additional compensa-
ION Tor the Thirty ninth Congress.
FOR compensation of the tally-clerk of the
louise OF Representatives from the first day
u February, eighteen hundred and seventy,
o the first day of July, eighteen hundred
ND seventy-one, six hundred and twelve
loiiars, the same making his compensation
qual to that of his predecessor (R. U. Sher-
nan and as fixed in the legislative bill for
himself.
To pay Rives and Bailey for the reporting
no pnoiicatlon OF the debates and proceed
ngs of the Forty first Congress, under the
pint resolution approved March three,
Eighteen hundred and sixty nine, and con,
fact OF April fourteen, eighteen hundred
nd slxty-nine so far as NAV have been