For repairs of officers' quarters, five thousand dollars.

For targets and batteries for artillery practice, five hundred dollars.
For furniture for cadets' hospital, two hundred dollars.

For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, six hundred dollars.

For materials for quarters for subaltern officers, five thousand dollars. For ventilating and heating the barracks and other academic buildings; mproving the apparatus for cooking for the cadets; repairing the hospital buildings, including the introduction of baths for the sick, the construction of water-closets in the library building, and new furniture for the recitation rooms, forty thousand dollars.

For purchase of fuel for cadets' mess-hall, three thousand dollars. For the removal and enlargement of the gas works, twenty thousand dollars.

For additional appropriations, for which estimates were not made last year:

For enlarging cadet laundry, five thousand dollars.

For furniture for soldiers' hospital, one hundred dollars.

For increasing the supply of water, replacing mains, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars.

For ice-house and additional store and servants' rooms, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For fire-proof building for public offices, fifteen thousand dollars.
For breast-high wall of water battery, five thousand dollars.

For permanent derrick on the wharf, two thousand five hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the cadets of the Military Academy be entitled to the ration now received by the acting midshipmen at the Naval Academy, commencing at the date of the approval of the law authorizing the same.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the assistant professor of Spanish shall receive the same pay and emoluments allowed to other assistant professors of the academy.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That no part of the moneys appropriated by this or any other act shall be applied 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-seven, until such State shall have been restored to its original relations to the Union.

Approved, February 28, 1867.

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II..[PUBLIC-No. 85.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, 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 the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight:

For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, and compensation to citizen surgeons for medical attendance, three hundred thousand dollars.

For pay of the army, fourteen million seven hundred and fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, two million two hundred and twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For commutation of forage for officers' horses, one hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' servants, two hundred and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars.

For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, two hundred thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars.
For artificial limbs for soldiers and seamen, seventy thousand dollars.
For army medical museum, ten thousand dollars.

For medical works for library of Surgeon General's Office, ten thousand dollars.

For expenses of Commanding General's Office, ten thousand dollars. FOR REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS OF ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

For arsenal and armory at Rock Island, Illinois, six hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred dollars.

For the erection of a bridge at Rock Island, Illinois, as recommended by the Chief of Ordnance, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the ownership of said bridge shall be and remain in the United States, and the Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company shall have the right of way over said bridge for all purposes of transit across the island and river, upon the condition that the said company shall, before

any money is expended by the government, agree to pay, and shall secure, to the United States, first, half the cost of said bridge; and, second, half the expenses of keeping said bridge in repair; and upon guaranteeing said conditions to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, by contract or otherwise, the said company shall have the free use of said bridge for purposes of transit, but without any claim to ownership thereof.

For Watervliet arsenal, West Troy, New York, thirty-eight thousand two hundred dollars.

For current expenses of the ordnance service, three hundred thousand dollars.

For Allegheny arsenal, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, thirty-four thousand dollars.

For Champlain arsenal, at Vergennes, Vermont, eight hundred dollars. For Columbus arsenal, Columbus, Ohio, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For Fort Monroe arsenal, Old Point Ccmfort, Virginia, six thousand dollars.

For Fort Union arsenal, Fort Union, New Mexico, ten thousand dollars.

For Frankford arsenal, Bridesburg, Pennsylvania, thirty thousand dollars.

For Kennebec arsenal, Augusta, Maine, one thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For Indianapolis arsenal, Indianapolis, Indiana, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For Leavenworth arsenal, Leavenworth, Kansas, fifteen thousand dollars.

For New York arsenal, Governor's Island, New York, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For Pikesville arsenal, Pikesville, Maryland, eight hundred dollars. For Saint Louis arsenal, Saint Louis, Missouri, sixty-five thousand dollars.

For Washington arsenal, Washington, District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars.

For Watertown arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts, twenty-one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars.

For the purchase of the Willard Sears estate, adjoining the Watertown arsenal grounds, forty-nine thousand and seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Secretary of War is hereby

authorized to sell at public auction a lot of land belonging to the United States situated in South Boston, if in his opinion the same is not needed for the public service, and pay the proceeds thereof into the treasury.

BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS.

For salaries of assistant commissioners, sub-assistant commissioners, and agents, one hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of clerks, eighty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For stationery and printing, sixty-three thousand dollars.

For quarters and fuel, two hundred thousand dollars.

For commissary stores, one million five hundred thousand dollars. For medical department, five hundred thousand dollars.

For transportation, eight hundred thousand dollars.

For school superintendents, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For buildings for schools and asylums, including construction, rental, and repairs, five hundred thousand dollars.

For telegraphing and postage, eighteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the Commissioner be hereby authorized to apply any balance on hand, at this date, of the Refugees and Freedmen's Fund, accounted for in his last annual report, to aid educational institutions actually incorporated for loyal refugees and freedmen: And provided further, That no agent or clerk not heretofore authorized by law shall receive a monthly allowance exceeding the sum of two hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the headquarters of the General of the army of the United States shall be at the city of Washington, and all orders and instructions relating to military operations issued by the President or Secretary of War shall be issued through the General of the army, and, in case of his inability, through the next in rank. The General of the army shall not be removed, suspended, or relieved from com. mand, or assigned to duty elsewhere than at said headquarters, except at his own request, without the previous approval of the Senate; and any orders or instructions relating to military operations issued contrary to the requirements of this section shall be null and void; and any officer who shali issue orders or instructions contrary to the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office; and any officer of the army who shall transmit, convey, or obey any orders or instructions so issued contrary to the provisions of this section, knowing that

such orders were so issued, shall be liable to imprisonment for not less than two nor more than twenty years, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction.

SEC. 3 And be it further enacted, That section three of the joint resolution relative to appointments to the Military Academy, approved June sixteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, in the erection of fire-proof buildings at or near the city of Jeffersonville, in the State of Indiana, to be used as storehouses for government property.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the officers of the army and navy and of the Freedmen's Bureau to prohibit and prevent whipping or maiming of the person as a punishment for any crime, misdemeanor, or offence, by any pretended civil or military authority in any State lately in rebellion, until the civil government of such State shall have been restored, and shall have been recognized by the Congress of the United States.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all militia forces now organized or in service in either of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, be forthwith disbanded, and that the further organization, arming, or calling into service of the said militia forces, or any part thereof, is hereby prohibited, under any circumstances whatever, until the same shall be authorized by Congress.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Paymaster General be authorized to pay, under such regulations as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, in addition to the amount received by them, for the travel[1]ing expenses of such California and Nevada volunteers as were discharged in New Mexico, Arizona, or Utah, and at points distant from the place or places of enlistment, such proportionate sum according to the distance travel[1]ed as have been paid to the troops of other States similarly situated; and such amount as shall be necessary to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 2, 1867.