THlRTY—-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 4, 5, 6. 1861. 331 That when the division or brigade commander shall be the accuser or P'°$°?“*°' '*°* prosecutor, the court shall be appointed by the next higher commander. t° app°m °°m` Approved, December 24, 1861. CHAP. IV.-An Act to provide for Allotment Certificates among the Volunteer Forces. Dec. 24, 1801. Be it emwled by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the Unit- The l"resident ed States shall appoint, for each State having volunteers in the United ;°fis:‘§lf,‘;Q';tf,§f’,,m` States service, not exceeding three persons, who shall be authorized by each Statetopr0· the Presidenfs commission to visit the several departments of the army f“'° °*‘="i“gd_**}· in which volunteers from their respective States may be, and there pro- 1E3E2Q2r0i;, Q2;] cure from said volunteers From time to time their respective allotments of State. their pay to their families or friends, duly eertified in writing, and by them, or by some commissioned officer of such department, attested in pursuance of such orders as may be made for that purpose by the Secretary of War, and upon which certified allotment the several peymasters shall, at each regular payment to troops, give drafts payable in the city of New York, Allotinents, to She order of such persons to whom said allotments were or may be h"' P”“d· ma e. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That the persons appointed as com- Cornmissioners missioners to carry into effect the preceding section of this act shall re- *;"°f;:’° “° réeive no pay or emoluments whatever from the Treasury of the United P y' ` tates. · Sec. 3. And be €t_f·ixrther enacted, That the fifth section of the act of Sutlefslien on twelfth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, giving sutlers o. lien upon :;’g;;;S_P"‘Y the s0ldier’s pay, be and the same is hereby repealed; and all regulations giving sutlers rights and privileges beyond the rules and articles of war 5185*;·°l*·1z€;6 be, and the same are hereby, abrogated. § };j,°;_`§§]f ` Approved, December 24, 1861. CHAP. V.-An Act an Appropriation for Gzmboats on the Western Rivers. B224v 186]; Be it enacted by the Senate cmd House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in éhngress assembled, That the sum of one million of fofgfgggglgtlgy dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Western] rivers. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for gunboats on the Western rivers. Approved, Deeember 24, 1861. Cm?. VL —·An Act making Apprgzriationsfor the Pqyment g Invalid and other Pen- January 8, 1862 {umm United States for the ear ending the thirtieth of une, eighteen hundred and "“"'_"‘""`“ andy . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Oongr-ess assembled, That the following sums be, and APl”°P"“"°“· the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and sixty-three : For invalid pensions under various acts, six hundred and forty thousand Invalid pensions dollars. For pensions under acts of eighteenth March, eighteen hundred and 1818,¢h-19- eighteen, fifteenth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and seventh 182*% **1-53- June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, twenty-five thousand dollars. 1832»_°h· 126· For pensions to widows of those who served in the Revolutionary war, wigg;‘;°“’ *° under the third section of the act of fourth July, eighteen hundred and 1836 `ch 362 thirty-six, the acts of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, 183B;chQ189f third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, seventeenth June, eighteen 134,3, ch, wg, hundred and forty-our, second February and twenty-ninth July, eighteen 1844, eh_ H4_ hundred and forty-eight, and second section act of third February, elgll- 1848, ons & 120 teen hundred and fifty-three, two hundred thousand dollars. 1856, oh. 41.
