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FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II, Ch. 30, 31. 1868. 43 For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, five thousand dollars. "g;“*'“°Y For horses for artillery and cavalry practical four thousand dollars. P,i,_;:£ amm- For repairs of oH;1cers’ quarters, five thousand dollars. For targets and batteries for artillery practice, one hundred dollars. For furniture for cadets’ hospital, two hundred dollars. For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, six hundred dollars. For purchase of fuel for cadets’ mess-hall, three thousand dollars. For furniture for soldiers' hospital, one hundred dollars. For breast-high walls of water battery, five thousand dollars: Provided, That the same shall complete the work. For reflooring academic building and barracks, fifteen hundred dollars. For addition to soldiers’ hospital, two thousand dollars. _ _ For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, five hundred Llm"“*‘°';._ dollars: Provided, That no part of the sums appropriated by the provis- iii):,°°$i:§,i;,i:-0;,rg. ions of this act shall be expended in violation of the provisions of an act ations- ` entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," v$S%g_°;‘ ggé: approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two: And providedi further, That no part of the moneys appropriated by this act shall be upplied to the pay or subsistence of any cadet from any State declared to be in rebellion against the government of the United States, appointed after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, until such State shall have been returned to its original relations to the Union. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate pro tempore. Indorscd by the President: “Received March 4, 1868." [Norm BY Tm: DEPARTMENT or STATE.-The foregoin act having been presented to the President of the United States for his appfovi and not uving een returned by him to the House of Congress in wlnc it orignated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. XXXL-An Act to facilitate the Payment of Soldier? Bounties under Act of March 19, 1868. eighteen hundred and sixtymh:. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the l;°·g"·i°i°;‘:’ Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ, for $185 ioiigcigzm not more than one year, fifty additional clerks in the division of the sec- pqyugcnt of s<>l- ond auditor’s onice of the Treasury Department, to expedite furnishing d";’;66b‘;‘L“t;‘: information to the paymaster-general in regard to soldiers claiming boun- Q; 1;;, is,' ty under the provisions of sections twelve and thirteen of the act entitled ¤l· xiv- P· 82* “ An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirticth, eighteen hundred and sixty- S°°P"“’·P·°*· seven, and for other purposes," approved July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, giving in all cases preference in said employment P*?f°*°¤$° '>° to soldiers and sailors honombly discharged from the service of the ;;Q°°;$1::,_l°" United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury Convenient be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to procure and to provide *'°°mS ***5**** adequate and convenient rooms for all clerks employed in the exa.mina· pr°°°r° ` tion of the muster—rolls in said office. Sec. 3. And be itfurtlwr enacted, That the assistant treusurers of the Assiswnttreu- United States in the cities of New York and San Francisco be, and they $*;:1;S;QdN§; _ are hereby. directed to pay duplicate checks, for bounties granted under Francisco to pay the said act, upon notice and proof of the loss of the original check d“P“°¤*§°h°§;* Or checks, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may upon u° °°’ ` direct.