No. 40. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following Joint Resolutions of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned: I..JOINT RESOLUTION explanatory of an act entitled "An Act fixing the number of Paymasters in the Army of the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the intent and meaning of an act entitled “An Act fixing the number of paymasters in the Army of the United States," approved March two, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, was to authorize the appointment of such additional number of paymasters with the rank of major as will make the total number of paymasters with the rank of major fifty, and no more. And so much of section eleven hundred and ninety-four of the Revised Statutes as applies to the paymasters of the rank of major be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved March 3, 1875. II..JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of Lowell A. Chamberlain. Whereas, it appears that Lowell A. Chamberlain was induced to tender the resignation of his commission of first lieutenant in the First Regiment of Artillery, United States Army, under the apprehension of being dismissed therefrom by sentence of a general court martial, which resignation was accepted by the President of the United States, to date November seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; and Whereas the vacancy created by the acceptance of the said resignation has been filled by promotion in regular course: now, therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to restore the said Lowell A. Chamberlain to his position in the Third Regiment of Artillery, United States Army, with the same rank and date of commission, and without forfeiture of pay, as if he had not tendered his resignation: Provided, That the President shall be convinced, upon an examination of the evidence the general court martial, before which he was tried, would have been unjust and not warranted by the facts: And provided, further, That no vacancy which may hereafter occur in the grade of first lieutenant in the First Regiment of Artillery, United States Army, shall be filled until the number of officers in that grade in the said regiment shall be reduced to the number now allowed by law. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 41. Washington, March 24, 1875. The following Acts of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned: I...AN ACT to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, in the State of Wisconsin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever, in the prosecution and maintenance of the improvement of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers in the State of Wisconsin, it becomes necessary or proper in the udgment of the Secretary of War to take posses sion of any lands, or the right of way over any lands, for canals and cut-offs, or to use any earthquarries or other material lying adjacent or near to the line of said improvement, and needful for its prosecution or maintenance, the officers in charge of said works may, in the name of the United States, take possession of and use the same, after first having paid or secured to be paid the value thereof, which may have been ascertained in the mode provided by the laws of the State wherein such property lies. In case any lands or other property is now or shall be flowed or injured by means of any part of the works of said improvement heretofore or hereafter constructed for which compensation is now or shall become legally owing, and in the opinion of the officer in charge it is not prudent that the dam or dams be lowered, the amount of such compensation may be ascertained in like The Department of Justice shall represent the interests of the United States in legal proceedings under this act, and for flowage-damages hereinbefore occasioned. manner. SEC. 2. That a portion of the appropriation now made for the further prosecution of the improvement aforesaid, not exceeding in amount twenty-five thousand dollars, may be applied in payment for the property and rights taken and used as aforesaid. Approved March 3, 1875. II...AN ACT for the further security of navigation on the Mississippi River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to inquire into the expediency of causing sheer booms to be placed on the upper end of all or any bridge the navigation of said river for rafts of logs and timber, with speciflc report in each case. Approved March 3, 1875. III...AN ACT to donate a certain portion of the military reservation of Fort Brady to school district number one, in township of Sault Sainte Marie and State of Michigan, for school purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a certain portion of the military reservation of Fort Brady, situate in the county of Chippewa and State of Michigan, containing one and twenty-six hundredths acres, and bounded on the north by Portage street, on the east by Church street, on the south by Ridge street, and on the west by the west line of said military reservation, be, and the same is hereby, donated to school-district numbered one, in the township of Sault Sainte Marie, in the county and State aforesaid, for school purposes, and for no other purpose. SEC. 2. That so much of Portage street, Church street, and Ridge street, in the village of Sault Sainte Marie, as is so represented upon a map of said village, filed in the General Land Office, as shall embrace the portion of ground aforesaid, be established as such streets. |