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338 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 350-353. 1872. United Suites at- attorney and United States marshall for the district of Nebraska shall, in wmer ¤¤<i mv- addition to their stated fees, be paid annually by the United States tw.,

EgQES§§§T“°k8’ hundred dollars each, in full compensation for all Mitra services, said

payment to be made quarterly, at the treasury of the United States. Aprnovmn, June 8, 1872. June 8, 1872. CHA]?. CCCLI.-An Act to authorize up Appaintmenl in the Inspector-General’s De- """;'"" pd? MCT! . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United N9l¤¢¤ H- States of America in Uongress assembled, That the President be, and D”{;};({°t;";{;Y;; hereby is, authorized to nominate, and, by and with the advice and coniilinspecmr-gen— sent of the Senate, to appoint, Nelson H. Davis, of the inspector-gem °ml’¤d°Pm¤*°¤* eral’s department, to the rank and place therein to which he is entitled, and which he would have held had the law of promotions by seniority J35b °h· gs under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and the ' lx`p'army regulations of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, been carried out; b N<>d°i*ii;*Lf¢ Provided, That no officer in said department shall, by this act, be reduced b;f;0$°;ay,°'°' from his present grade, nor shall any pay or allowance be made to any src., géven, ex- officer under it, except from the date of his confirmation: And provided "°lI§;) fémmon further, That no promotion to the grade of inspector-general shall hereto, ugh &,,_ after be made until the number of inspectors-general is reduced to four. APPROVED, June 8, 1872] J¤¤¤ 8, 1872- CHAP. CCCLlI.·-An Ad for the Completion and Publication of the Jlledieal and '"`l"`-"" Surgical History of the Rebellion. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Su1;[__fi‘;;”;{‘;3‘;r States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, of 5,,, wa.}, bg and he is hereby, directed to have completed the Medical and Surgical completed in two History of the War, by the preparation in the office of the surgeon-gem

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v°l' eral of two volumes of eighteen hundred pages, in addition to the first

Appropriation. volume already compiled and printed under authority of Congress, and he is hereby authorized to have executed as he may deem advisable, the necessary engraving and lithographing therefor, at an expense not to exceed sixty thousand dollars, which shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. _ Number of Sec. 2. That five thousand copies each of the second and third volumes ggggpugg h"' be printed and bound by the congressional printer, to be distributed with ' the first volume already printed, as may be hereafter directed by Congress. Approved, June 8, 1872. June 8, 1872. CHAP. QCCLIII. T rin Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act . to ];1g:;;dpl2;oé·’{(1;r;;$;y;er:;/iqnceal Limbs to disabled Soldiers," approved June thirtieth, Vol. xvi. p. 153. *9*. ·

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

Amneiai limbs, States of America in Congress assembled, That the acts approved June §‘;H€g't*;°a';‘f‘;m_ seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy, and June thirty, eighteen cm.! and enlisted hundred and seventy, for- supplying artificial limbs, or oommutation for

>;eb{;+;g1 of the same, todoflgeers, soldiersé and peamlen, shag tgply tp allloflicepsp non-

’, _ S coinnnssione 0 icers, en iste an nre men 0 the an an nava orces li:;:Il;;l(liii»::° of the United States, who, in the line of their duty as such, shall have gégipsgc lost limbs or sustained bodily injuries depriving them of the use of any of ’their limbs, to be determined by the surgeon-general of the army. Transportation. Sno, 2. That the transportation allowed for having artificial limbs fitted shall be furnished by the Quartermaster-General of the army, the cost of which shall be refunded from the appropriations for invalid pensions. §v'£hec;e:m 0;; Sec. 3. That the term of five years specified in the first section of the Suchlumpplgm *20 act approved June seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An be mppnud mm act to provide for furnishing artificial limbs to disabled soldiers," shall be