tionment. of the several counties and districts of the territory, to be taken by such Basis of apporpersons and in such mode as the governor shall designate and appoint, and the persons so appointed shall receive a reasonable compensation therefor, to be paid out of the territorial treasury: Provided, further, That this act shall not be construed to divest any member of the council elected at the first election in said territory, of any rights he may have acquired by virtue of said election, who was elected from any county or district within the present limits of the Territory of Idaho. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the annual election in said territory for the election of all officers provided for by the laws of said territory, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall be held at such places as is now provided by law, and such other places as the governor may direct on the second Monday of October. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. CHAP. CXLII. - An Act to confirm certain Entries of Land in the State of Missouri. Rights of members elect not impaired. Time of annual election in 1864. June 20, 1864. Certain entries 1854, ch. 244. Vol. x. p. 574. Provisos. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all entries heretofore made under the graduation act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and of land in Misfifty-four, in township forty-five north, of range nine west, south of Missouri confirmed. souri River, in the district of land subject to sale at St. Louis, Missouri, shall be, and are hereby, confirmed: Provided, however, That this act shall not extend to any entry of land aforesaid upon which there was an actual settler other than the purchaser at the date of such entry, and that it shall first be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that the entry has been made in good faith, and is founded upon actual settlement and cultivation, or is for the use of an adjoining farm: Provided, further, That the lands shall be paid for in money, or in land warrants, to the amount of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. CHAP. CXLIII. - An Act to detach the Counties of Calhoun and Branch from the June 20, 1864. de Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the counties of Calhoun and Branch, in the State of Michigan, be, and the same are hereby, tached from the western judicial district and annexed to and made a part of the eastern judicial district of said state. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not in any manner affect any suit or proceeding now pending in the courts in the western judicial district of the State of Michigan, but the same shall be proceeded in and determined in said courts in the same manner as if this act had not been passed. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. Counties of Calhoun and Branch made part of eastern judicial district of Michigan. Pending pro cess not affected. June 20, 1864. The land in Santa Barbara CHAP. CXLIV. — - An Act concerning Lands in the State of California. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, under the patent of the United States, issued on the 28th day of February, 1861, to Joseph S. Alemany, as the bishop of Monterey, and his successors, for the tract of land or rancho known as Canada de los Pinos, or College Rancho, situate in the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, as described in such &c., may be sold, and proceeds appatent, to have and to hold the same to him and them "in trust for the plied in what religious purposes and uses "therein mentioned, it shall be lawful for the manner. said Joseph S. Alemany and his successors, as the grantees of said patent, to sell the said tract or rancho, or any part thereof, and all proper convey Breaches of conditions, &c., waived by the United States. ances in that behalf to make and deliver, and the proceeds thereof to apply, under the direction of the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, in the State of California, and his successors in office, or other proper authority of the Roman Catholic church in said state, for the purposes of education anywhere within said state, not inconsistent with the laws thereof; anything in such patent, or in the original grant or concession of said tract or rancho, or other title whereby the same was acquired from and under the authorities of Spain or Mexico, to the contrary notwithstanding; and all trusts, conditions, provisions, or covenants, precedent or subsequent, expressed or implied, in said patent, grant, concession, or title, to the contrary hereof, and all breaches of the same, are hereby wholly waived, abrogated, discharged, dispensed with, and released on the part of the United States, for the purposes of this act; and any conveyance or disposition made in pursuance thereof shall operate to pass all the right and interest of the United States in said lands to the grantee. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. June 20, 1864. CHAP. CXLV. —An Act to increase the Pay of Soldiers in the United States Army, and for other Purposes. Pay of noncommissioned officers and pri Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and during the continuance of the present rebellion, the pay per month of non-commissioned officers and privates in the military service of the United States shall be as follows, vates in the mili- viz: Sergeant-majors, twenty-six dollars; quartermasters and commistary service of sary-sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty-two dollars; the United States. first sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty-four dollars; sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty dollars; sergeants of ordnance, sappers and miners, and pontoniers, thirty-four dollars; corporals of ordnance, sappers and miners, and pontoniers, twenty dollars; privates of engineers and ordnance of the first class, eighteen dollars, and of the second class, sixteen dollars; corporals of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, eighteen dollars; chief buglers of cavalry, twenty-three dollars; buglers, sixteen dollars; farriers and blacksmiths of cavalry, and artificers of artillery, eighteen dollars; privates of cavalry, artillery, and in["Musicians," to fantry, sixteen dollars; principal musicians of artillery and infantry, Pub. Res. No. 68. twenty-two dollars; leaders of brigade and regimental bands, seventy-five Post, p. 416.] dollars; musicians, sixteen dollars; hospital stewards of the first class, thirty-three dollars; hospital stewards of the second class, twenty-five dollars; hospital stewards of the third class, twenty-three dollars. include what. per. Army ration to SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the army ration shall hereremain the same. after be the same as provided by law and regulations on the first day of Ration of pep- July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one: Provided, That the ration of pepper prescribed in the eleventh section of the "Act to promote the efficiency of the corps of engineers and of the ordnance department, and for other 1863, ch. 78, purposes," approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall continue to be furnished as heretofore. But nothing contained in this act shall be construed to alter the commutation value of rations as regulated by existing laws. 11. Vol. xii. P. 744. Non-commis sioned officers SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all non-commissioned officers and privates in the regular army, serving under enlistments made prior and privates in regular army, en- to July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall have the listed before July privilege of reënlisting for the term of three years in their respective 22, 1861, may reenlist and have organizations until the first day of August next; and all such non-comcertain bounties. missioned officers and privates so reenlisting shall be entitled to the Pub. Res. No. 5. bounties mentioned in the joint resolution of congress approved January thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Post, p. 400. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there be added to the battalion of engineers one sergeant-major, who shall be paid thirty-six dollars per Sergeant-major month, and one quartermaster-sergeant, who shall also be commissary- and quartermas sergeant, who shall be paid twenty-two dollars per month. ter-sergeant to battalion of en SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That there shall be attached to, gineers; pay. and made a part of, the War Department, during the continuance of the present rebellion, a bureau, to be known as the Bureau of Military Jus- Bureau of militice, to which shall be returned for revision the records and proceedings tary justice estab of all the courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions of the armies of the United States, and in which a record shall be kept of all proceedings had thereupon. lished. be head of Their duties. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the President shall appoint, Judge advo-by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as the head of said cate-general to bureau, a judge advocate-general, with the rank, pay, and allowances bureau. of a brigadier-general, and an assistant judge advocate-general, with the Assistant judge advocate-general. rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel of cavalry. And the said judge advocate-general and his assistant shall receive, revise, and have recorded the proceedings of the courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions of the armies of the United States, and perform such other duties as have heretofore been performed by the judge advocate-general of the armies of the United States. Clerks in said SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shall have power to appoint for said bureau one fourth-class, one third-class, bureau. one second-class, and two first-class clerks. When govern SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where the government shall furnish transportation and subsistence to discharged officers ment furnishes transportation, and soldiers from the place of their discharge to the place of their enrol- &c., to discharged ment or original muster into the service, they shall not be entitled to soldiers, they not entitled to travel, travel, pay, or commutation of subsistence. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That so much of the fifth section of the act entitled "An act to authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting the public property," approved July twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, as provides that each company officer, non-commissioned officer, private, musician, and artificer of cavalry, shall furnish his own horse and horse equipments, and shall receive forty cents per day for their use and risk, is hereby repealed, except only so far as the same may hereafter be made to apply and relate to mounted troops called into the service of the United States for a term not exceeding six months. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act the pay of clerks of paymasters in the army of the United States shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum, without rations. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the thirty-first section of an act entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as that an officer may have, when allowed by order of his proper commander, leave of absence for other cause than sickness or wounds, without deduction from his pay or allowances: Provided, That the aggregate of such absence shall not exceed thirty days in any one year. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. &c. Repeal of law allowing pay to vates of cavalry furnishing horses 1861, ch. ix. 5. and equipments. Vol. xii. p. 269. officers and pri Pay of clerks of army pay masters. Pay, &c., may be continued during leave of absence, under certain circum stances. 31. 1863, ch. 75, § Vol. xii. p. 736. Proviso. CHAP. CXLVII. - An Act making Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and June 25, 1864. Judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, 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 be, and VOL. XIII. PUB. 13 Legislative, ex- the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not ecutive. &c., ex- otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal penses appropriyear ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, namely: Legislative. For compensation and mileage of senators, two hundred and forty-seven thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. ation. Legislative. Pay, &c., of senators; of officers of Senate. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, viz: secretary of the Senate, three thousand six hundred dollars; officer charged with disbursements of the Senate, four hundred and eighty dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal clerk and principal executive clerk in the office of the secretary of the Senate, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each; eight clerks in office of the secretary of the Senate, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars each; keeper of the stationery, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; two messengers, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; one page, at five hundred dollars; sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, one thousand seven hundred dollars; postmaster to the Senate, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail-carrier, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; two mail-boys, at nine hundred dollars each; superintendent of the document room, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of the folding-room, one thousand five hundred dollars; two messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; seventeen messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk or secretary to the president of the Senate, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; clerk to the committee on finance, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to the committee on claims, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; clerk of printing records, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent in charge of the furnaces, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant in charge of furnaces, six hundred dollars; laborer in charge of private passages, six hundred dollars; two laborers at six hundred dollars each; chaplain to the Senate, seven hundred and fifty dollars; captain of the capitol police, eight hundred and seventy dollars; capitol police, eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; one policeman four hundred and eighty dollars, making ninety-two thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars. For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz: For newspapers, three thousand dollars. For Congressional Globe, twenty thousand dollars. For reporting proceedings in the Daily Globe for the second session of the thirty-eighth congress, twelve thousand dollars. For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the Senate for the second regular session of the thirty-eight congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars. For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, eighteen thousand dollars. For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus, sixteen thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, thirty-five thousand dollars. For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives and delegates from territories, nine hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the House of Representatives, viz clerk of the House of Representatives, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk and one assistant clerk, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each; eleven clerks, at one thousand eight hundred For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz:— For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each member and delegate of the second regular session of the thirtyeighth congress, and one hundred copies of the same for the House Libriry, twenty thousand dollars. For the compensation of clerks to committees, and temporary clerks in the office of the clerk of the House of Representatives, fifteen thousand and seventy-two dollars. For folding documents, including materials, thirty thousand dollars. For fuel and lights, pay of engineers, firemen, and laborers, repairs, and materials, twelve thousand dollars. For furniture, repairs, and packing-boxes for members, twelve thousand dollars. For horses, carriages, and saddle-horses, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For laborers, seven thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, forty thousand dollars. For newspapers, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For pages and temporary mail-boys, five thousand dollars. For reporting and publishing proceedings in the Daily Globe, at seven dollars and fifty cents per column, eight thousand dollars. For stationery, fifteen thousand dollars. For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House Stationery. for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the House to reporters. for the second regular session of the thirty-eighth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars. Public Printing. For compensation of the superintendent of public Public printing. printing, and the clerks and messengers in his office, nine thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty cents. For contingent expenses of his office, viz: For stationery, postage, advertising, furniture, travelling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars. |