GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 54. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Paragraph 1, General Orders No. 9, February 8, 1871, from this Office, is hereby so modified as to include the issue of the blanket-lined overcoat, buffalo overshoes, and woolen mittens, as therein provided, at the following posts in the Department of California: No. 55. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following Acts of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned: I...AN ACT to facilitate the execution of, and to protect certain public works of improvement at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, the Secretary of War is directed to assume full control over the particular channel at the mouth of the Mississippi River in course of excavation or improvement by the Government of the United States, so far as may be necessary to the carrying on and protection of such excavation and improvement, and until the same be completed, and he may establish such regulations respecting the use of, or passage through, such channel as he shall deem needful to fully protect the channel and to facilitate the excavation, improvement, and use thereof. Such regulations shall be promulgated by publication thereof for ten days consec◄ utively in two daily papers published in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the same may in like manner be changed from time to time; and any person interfering with, or obstructing, or attempting to obstruct, the said improvements, and any person who shall willfully or negligently strand or sink any boat or craft in said channel, or who shall willfully or negligently obstruct said channel, or cause any impairment, injury, filling up, or shoaling therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court. Approved June 1, 1874. IL..AN ACT to provide for the better protection of the frontier settlements of Texas against Indian and Mexican depredations. 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 to construct and operate a line of telegraph, beginning at or near the city of Denison, in Grayson County, Texas; thence by the nearest practicable route to Fort Sill, Indian Territory; line of settlements to Forts Griffin and Concho; thence to the Pecos River at or near the mouth of Toyah Creek; thence to Fort Clarke on Las Moras Creek; thence to Fort Duncan on the Rio Grande; thence down the Rio Grande, via Fort McIntosh and Ringgold's Barracks, to Brownsville, so as to connect the military posts which are now, or may hereafter be, established on said line with the military headquarters of said district; and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. No. 56. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following Joint Resolution and Acts of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned : I...JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the President to issue army rations and clothing to the destitute people on the Tombigbee, Warrior, and Alabama Rivers. 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 in his discretion to direct the issue of Army rations, and clothing of patterns not now issued to the Army, to the starving and destitute people on the Tombigbee, Warrior, and Alabama Rivers, who have been rendered destitute by the inundation of their homes in the valleys of said rivers. Approved May 28, 1874. IL...AN ACT donating condemned cannon and cannon-balls to the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic of Philadelphia and other associations, for monumental purposes. 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 hereby is, authorized to deliver, if the same can be done without detriment to the Government, two condemned cannon and eight cannonballs to each of the following-named organizations, for the purpose of ornamenting burial-grounds of deceased soldiers: To the post numbered two, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered five, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered six, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered seven, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered eight, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered ten, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered seventy-one, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered nineteen, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-balls to each of the following organizations, namely: To the corporate authorities of the town of Winterport, State of Maine; to the Soldiers' Monument Association of Henderson County, State of Illinois; to the Northumberland County Monument Association of Pennsylvania; to Fuller Post No. seventy |