Adjutant General's Office, 1874.
ACADEMY. (See MILITARY ACADEMY.)
Secretary of War to cause frequent examination of, of disbursing officers....33
Of disbursing officers to be made bi-monthly
Division and Department Commanders to provide for examination of, of
disbursing officers.
Respecting, for transportation over land-grant railroads.
Republishes laws respecting prompt settlement of, of disbursing officers 118, 127
ACTS OF CONGRESS. (See RESOLUTIONS.)
An act authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver to the State authorities
of Rhode Island a certain gun-approved February, 19, 1874......
An act to authorize the Secretary of War to ascertain the amount of
expense incurred by the Territorial authorities of Dakota for arms,
equipments. military stores, supplies, and all other expenses of the
volunteer forces of the Indian war of eighteen hundred and sixty-two-
approved February 20, 1874..
An act to dredge and protect the navigable channel at the mouth of Buffalo
River against the sand-bar formed by the gale of December, eighteen
hundred and seventy three-approved February 25, 1874....
An act authorizing the Chief Clerk of the War Department to sign requisi-
tions on the Treasury during the temporary absence of the Secretary of
War-approved March 4, 1874...
An act for the relief of Matthew Woodruff, late first Sergeant of Company
G, Twenty-first Missouri Volunteers-approved March 11, 1874..
An act making appropriations for the construction, preservation, and repair
of certain fortifications and other works of defense, for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy five--approved
April 3, 1874...
An act to improve the mouth of the Mississippi River-approved April
3, 1874...
An act for the relief of L S. Campbell-approved March 26, 1874..
An act for the relief of Lieutenant Alonzo V. Richards-approved April
9, 1874.
An act to donate the military reservation at Fort Steilacoom to the Terri-
tory of Washington for the use of the insane asylum-approved April
15, 1874..
An act to establish a reservation for certain Indians in the Territory of
Montana-approved April 15, 1874.
An act for the relief of Henry C. Smith, of Indianapolis, Indiana-passed
April 20, 1874..
An act for the relief of Oliver Parsons-passed April 20, 1874.
An act to provide for the inspection of the disbursements of appropriations
made by officers of the Army-approved April 20, 1874.
An act for the relief of Frank M. Kelly-approved April 17, 1874.
An act to authorize and direct the Secretary of War to change the name
of John Rziha, Captain in the Fourth Regiment of Infantry of the Army
of the United States, on the register, rolls, and records of the Army, to
John Laube de Laubenfels-approved April 22, 1874.
An act authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver certain condemned
ordnance to the municipal authorities of Concord, Massachusetts, for
ACTS OF CONGRESS-Continued.
An act to provide for the relief of the persons suffering from the overflow
of the lower Mississippi River-approved April 23, 1874..
An act for the relief of William Rood, late private of the Thirty-sixth
Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers-approved April 24, 1874.
An act for the relief of John B. Weber, late Colonel of the Eighteenth
Regiment Corps d'Afrique-approved April 30, 1874.
An act to render available an unexpended balance of appropriation for
collection and payment of bounty, &c., for colored soldiers and sailors→
approved May 1, 1874.
An act for the relief of William J. Scott, late Aide-de-camp on the Staff
of General Spear-approved May 5, 1874..
An act for the relief of William N. Williams, late a Second Lieutenant of
Volunteers-aj proved May 8, 1874..
An act to amend the thirty-first section of an act entitled "An act for en-
rolling and calling out the national militia, and for other purposes,
approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three-approved
May 8, 1874...
An act to enable the Secretary of War to carry out the act of April twenty-
third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An act to provide
for the relief of the persons suffering from the overflow of the Mississippi
River," and for other purposes-approved May 13, 1874.
An act providing for the payment of the bonds of the Louisville and Port-
land Canal Company-approved May 11, 1874.
An act to settle the accounts of Captain A. B. Dyer-approved May 12,
1874..
An act to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish copies of certain
papers called for by resolution of the House-approved May 11, 1874.. (I) 44
An act for the relief of Nathan Cole, late Captain Twenty-third Regiment
Veteran Reserve Corps-approved May 11, 1874...
An act for the relief of Lucius A. Roundtree-approved May 14, 1874... (I) 46
An act for the relief of James Long-approved May 14, 1874...
An act granting a portion of the United States military reservation at Salt
Lake City for cemetery purposes-approved May 16, 1874
An act for the relief of certain settlers on the Fort Randall military
reservation-approved May 18, 1874...
An act for the relief of James C. Livingston, late a private in Company E.
Third Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry-approved May 18. 1874...(III) 47
An act to relieve certain persons therein named late members of Company
K, Fifty-eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from the charge
of mutiny-passed May 25, 1874..
An act for the relief of George Yount-passed May 25, 1874.
An act for the relief of William A. Snodgrass, late Lieutenant Company
H, Thirty-ninth Regiment Ohio Veterau Volunteer Infantry-passed
May 25, 1874.
An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the establishment
of a military prison and for its government," approved March third,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three-approved May 21, 1874.
An act to facilitate the execution of, and to protect certain public works
of improvement at the mouth of the Mississippi River-approved June
An act to provide for the better protection of the frontier settlements of
Texas against Indian and Mexican depredations-approved June 3,
An act donating condemned cannon and cannon-balls to the pests of the
Grand Army of the Republic of Philadelphia and other associations,
for monumental purposes-approved June 3, 1874..
An act granting a pension to Louisa H. Canby, widow of the late General
E. R. S. Canby-approved June 4, 1874.
An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for
other purposes-approved June 16, 1874....
An act for the relief of Dewight De Silva, of Deposit, New York-ap-
proved June 8, 1874..
An act for the relief of Pat. O. Hawes-approved June 8, 1874.
ACTS OF CONGRESS-Cor tinned,
An act to legalize and establish a pontoon railway-bridge across the Mis-
sissippi River at Prairie-du-Chien, and to authorize the construction of a
similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa-approved June 6, 1874.
An act to reduce the area of the military reservation of Fort Saunders,
and providing for the survey of said reservation as reduced-approved
June 9, 1874..
An act granting one condemned cannon to Prescott Post No. 1. Grand
Army of the Republic, for the erection of a monument at Providence-
approved June 10, 1874.
An act for the benefit of the Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike Com-
pany-approved June 12, 1674..
An act to authorize the Secretary of War to ascertain the amount of ex-
penses incurred by the States of Oregon and California in the suppression
of Indian hostilities in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-two and
eighteen hundred and seventy-three-approved June 18, 1874..
An act for the relief of Jonathan L. Mann, late a Chaplain in the Volun-
teer Service of the Army-passed June 16, 1874..
An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy
for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-
five-approved June 6, 1874.
An act to authorize an appointment in the Inspector General's Depart-
ment-approved June 16, 1874.
An act to create an additional Major of Artillery, and to promote Captain
James M. Robertson-approved June 17, 1874..
An act to correct the date of commission of certain officers of the Army-
approved June 20, 1874.
An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial
expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes-approved June 20,
An act authorizing the Secretary of War to grant a right of way across a
corner of the Fort Gratiot military reservation to the City Railroad
Company, Port Huron, Michigan-approved June 18, 1874..
An act for the relief of A. H. Von Luettwitz, late Lieutenant, Third United
States Cavalry-approved June 23, 1874..
An act to protect lines of telegraph constructed or used by the United
States from malicious injury and obstruction-approved June 23, 1874 .....72
An act to provide for the appointment of a commission of engineers to
investigate and report a permanent plan for the reclamation of the allu-
vial basin of the Mississippi River subject to inundation-approved
June 22, 1874..
An act reorganizing the several staff corps of the Army-approved June
23. 1874
An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations
for the service of the Government for the fiscal years ending June thir
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, and for other purposes-approved June 22, 1874....
An act making appropriatious for sundry civil expenses of the Government
for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-
five, and for other purposes-approved June 23, 1874
An act making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion
of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes-
approved June 23, 1874.
An act authorizing the Secretary of War to sell unserviceable ordnance
stores, and for other purposes-approved June 22, 1874.
An act extending the right of way heretofore granted to the Allegheny
Valley Railroad Company through the arsenal grounds at Pittsburgh,
An act authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver certain condemned
ordnance to the municipal authorities of Lexington, Massachusetts, for
monumental purposes-approved June 22, 1874..
An act for the transfer of twenty condemned bronze cannon for the erec-
tion of a statue to the late Major General George Gordon Meade-ap-
proved June 22, 1874...
ACTS OF CONGRESS- Continued.
An act to confirm the purchase of a portion of the site of Fort Houston,
at Nashville, Tennessee, and to provide for the donation of the same to
the Fisk University for educational purposes; also to confirm in the
purchase of certain land at Fort Hamilton, New York-approved June
23. 1874
An act to authorize and provide for the construction of a substantial iron
and masonry bridge and of a causeway across the Anacostia, or Eastern
Branch of the Potomac River, at or near the site of the present Navy-
Yard bridge-approved June 22, 1874..
An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi
River at or near the city of La Crosse, in the State of Wisconsin-
approved June 22, 1874.
An act to authorize the sale of the military reservation of Fort Reynolds,
in Colorado Territory, and the Government buildings thereon-approved
June 19, 1874
An act authorizing the Secretary of War to relinquish and turn over
to the Interior Department parts of certain reservations in the Territory
of Arizona as may be no longer required for military purposes-ap-
proved June 22, 1874.
An act to authorize and direct the Secretary of War to reserve from sale
ten thousand suits of old and disused Army uniform clothing, now in the
Quartermaster's Department of the Army, and to transfer the same to
the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers-approved June
18, 1874
An act for the relief of J. Scott Payne, Secord Lieutenant, Sixth United
States Cavalry, late First Lieutenant, Filth United States Cavalry-ap-
proved June 23, 1874
An act for the relief of Charles W. Berry, late private of the Thirty-sixth
Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers-approved June 20, 1×74.
An act for the relief of Sheridan O. Bremmer, late a private of Company
E. Eighteenth Regiment Wisconsin Infantry-approved June 20, 1874 (II) 98
An act for the relief of Peter J. Knapp-approved June 22, 1874. (III) 98
Matthias Whitehead-approved June 22, 1874 ..(IV) 98
Susan D. Galloway-approved March 21, 1874....(I) 99
the heirs of Seth Lamb-passed April 24, 1874...(II) 99
Selden Connor-approved June 19, 1874.......
Oliver P. Mason-approved June 23, 1874
John J. Hayden-approved June 23, 1874
Victor Mylius, of Macoupin County, Illinois-passed
April 24, 1874
C. C. Spaids-passed June 16, 174
William J. McIntyre-approved June 20, 1874 (III) 100
Kerry Sullivan, of Company G, Fourteenth Regi-
ment New Hampshire Volunteers-approved
June 20, 1874..
Robert Sutherland-approved June 20, 1874.... .(V) 100
Alfred Fry-approved June 20, 1874
Samuel E. Rankin-approved June 20, 1874..(VII) 100
James M. True, late Colonel of the Sixty-second
Illinois Volunteer Infantry-approved June 20,
Thomas Simms, late a Lieutenant in the Seventy-
sixth Regiment New York Volunteers-ap-
proved June 20, 1874.....
Joseph C. Breckenridge, for services in the Army
of the United States-approved June 20, 1874 (X) 100
John W. Divine, late Assistant Surgeon of the
Eleventh Regiment of Tennessee Cavalry-ap-
proved June 22, 1874...
Henry P. Ingram and John H. Askins-approved
June 22, 1874.
(XII) 100
George A. Bacon-approved June 22, 1874..(XIII) 100
ACTS OF CONGRESS-Continued.
An act for the relief of Isaac Riseden, late a First Lieutenant of the
Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry-approved June
22. 1874..
John N. Newman, late an acting First Lieutenant
of Company B. Ninth Tennessee Volunteer Cav-
alry-approved June 22, 1874....
William H. Pilkenton, late a Second Lieutenant
in Company G. Fifth Regiment Indiana Cavalry
Volunteers-approved June 22, 1874.......(XVI) 100
An act to legalize the muster of Reuben M. Pratt as Second Lieutenant-
approved June 23, 1874.
An act for the relief of Captain James B. Thompson-approved June 23,
1874...
An act for the relief of Lieutenant John Shelton-approved June 23,
1874
An act making additions to the fifteenth section of the act approved July
2, 1864, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to aid in the
construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to
the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same
for postal, military, and other purposes,' approved July 1, 1862"-ap-
proved June 20, 1874.
An act respecting quarantines and health laws, (Extract)-approved Feb-
ruary 25, 1799..
An act to provide for the more prompt settlements of the accounts of dis-
bursing officers-approved July 17, 1862..
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE.
General service clerks in the, may be retained for one year, but new en-
listments forbidden
Publishes revised regulations respecting, and job printing.
Authority for, in newspapers to be construed as referring to the daily edi
tion of such papers.
Publishes act rendering available an unexpended balance of appropria.
tions for collection and payment of bounty to, who served in the Army
or Navy...
Secretary of War to deliver four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-
balls to the Soldiers' Monument Fund of,...
Publishes acts for the relief of the sufferers by the inundation of the valley
of the,....
Laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, &c., extended
to, selling of liquor in, punishable in manner prescribed by laws regu-
lating intercourse with Indian tribes
ALLEGHENY VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY.
Publishes act granting the, right of way through the arsenal grounds at
Pittsburgh, Pa
Secretary of War to deliver four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon.
balls to the Soldiers' Monument Associ: tion of,.
Instructions respecting issue and expenditure of, for small arms
Announces promotions and, in the Army..
Publishes an act authorizing an, in the Inspector General's Department ..(I) 67
Publishes act authorizing the, of an additional major in the Second Regi-
ment of Artillery.
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