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THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 5, 6. 1861. 261 Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury T*‘¤¤S¤"§' ¤0*°¤ ig hereby authorized, whenever he shall deem it expedient, to issue in ex- Q3gmtf,gu;",-Z'; change for coin, or in payment for public dues, treasury notes of any of coin,&c. the denominations hereinbefore specided, bearing interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and payable at any time not exceeding twelve months from date, provided that the amount of notes so issued, or paid, shall at no time exceed twenty millions of dollars. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury Secretary ot shall report to Congress, immediately after the commencement of the next T’°”“’5o*° ’°· session, the amount he has borrowed under the provisions of this act, of Pm °° °gr°°°` whom, and on what terms, with an abstract of all the proposals, designating those that have been accepted and those that have been rejected, and the amount of bonds or treasury notes that have been issued for the same. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the faith of the United States liaith of the is hereby solemnly pledged for the payment of the interest and redemp- I{;‘é*°g‘dS°“*°’ tion of the principal of the loan authorized by this act. P g ` Sec. 10. And be it fun/zer enacted, That all the provisions of the act _Qertsin proentitled "An act to authorize the issue of treasury notes," approved the ;'g§I,’”c§f tf; .twenty-third day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, so far as wweé. n i the same can or may be applied to the provisions of this act, and not in- Vo1.xi. p. 257. consistent therewith, are hereby revived or re-enacted. Src. 11. And be it further enacted, That, to defray all the expenses that APP¤>Pfi¤¢i<>¤ may attend the execution of this act, the sum of two hundred thousand gg, ff£°:ff° °°' dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 17, 1861. C!u1·.VI.—An Act maki additional A preprzahor t}ze.»S*z1 art 0 the Arm for thefincd Year ending fum Zhirlicth, hundred Ld sixty-!;; andf A ppropril thm of Arremmgesjh thehun! Year endingfune thirticth, eighteen hundred and sixty- em. 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 Amy ,pp,0_ the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not pristions. otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits from the different Bqgruiiiug, xw, rendezvous to general depots, procuring of medical attendance, and all other expenses attending the raising of twenty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-tive men, to be organized into nine regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and one regiment of artillery, as per general orders number sixteen, dated War Department, Adjutant-Genera1’s Office, Washingwn, May fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, three hundred and fifty-eigl1t thousand dollars. For purchase of books of tactics and instruction for the volunteers, Books of tactics. fifty thousand dollars. For pay of the army, three million nine hundred and sixty-nine thou- Psy and comsand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents. ¤“**¤°¤· For oommutation of ol`rlcers’ subsistence, four hundred and seventy- eight thousand thnee hundred and seventeen dollars and sixty cents. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, seventy-three thousand and fifty-six dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, fifty-seven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. For psy of the three months? volunteers, two million five hundred and seven thousand dollars. For pay of the two and three years volunteers, fifty-five million dollars. _ For subsistence in kind for regular troops, two million four hundred and S“bS‘**°”°°·