1106 INDEX. Secretary of War, (continued.) Secretary of War, (continued.) to deliver condemned ordnance to cer- to direct the expenditure of the approtain soldiers’ monumental associa- priation for the support of certain pautions . 54, 341, 395 pers 361 appropriationtoenableto have the rebel duty of, in regard to the payment of archives examined, &c. . 79 bounties, or other moneys, due to colto place the name of Samuel Ross on ored soldiers, sailors, or marines . . 366 the retired list of army officers . . . 96 to employ such clerical force as may powers and duties of, under act author- be necessary 366 izing the construction of abridge across to have the direction and control of the the Missouri River ... 100 _Freedmen’s Hospital in the District of across Lake Saint Croix 118 Columbia . . .' ... 366 across the Mississsipi river at Quin- to provide for such stations, reports, and cy, Ill. .. . . . 121 signals by the signal office as may be across the Mississippi river near necessary for the benefit of agricul- Fort Madison, Iowa . `. . . . 161 ture and commercial interests . . . 866 across the Arkansas river near to pay expenses of arbitration between Little Rock, Arkansas . . 193, 194 the United States and the Green Bay across the Mississippi river at Rock and Mississippi Canal Company, 367, 370 Island .. 220 to continue military, &»c., surveys west at or near the city of Red Wing, of 100° west longitude .. 867 Minnesota 379 to direct the expenditure of the appropriacross the Missouri river near Ne- ation for repairs, &c., of public works braska City 223 on rivers and harbors . 370 at Brownville, Nebraska . . . 224 for surveys, &c., for improvement to establish regulations for system of of . ‘ .. 375 deposits of savings by the rank and to ascertain the amount of tonnage of file of the army 117 commercial business at each point of to select superintendents of national survey ... 876 cemeteries from, &c ... 135 to report to Congress the condition of to pay certain certificates sold for forti- the canal at the falls of the Ohio . . 372 iication purposes in Lawrence, Kan- to sell at auction the lands and tenesas 135 ments of the United States at certain to place rifle muskets and cartridges at arsenals ... 380 the disposal of the governor of Mon- to cause an investigation to be made by tana Territory, for distribution among medical officers of the regular army settlers for defence against the In- with reference to the establishment of dians . · . .. 138 a more effective system of quarantine to reduce the limits of the military res- on the Southern and Gulf coasts . . 396 ervation at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, 189 duties of, under the act authorizing the to relinquish possession of a wharf, &c., construction of bridges across the in New Orleans, to that city 139 Ohio river .. 399 may accept the peninsula in Lake Erie, across the Mobile river, and navigafrom the Marine Hospital of Pennsyl- ble streams tributary to Mobile vsnia, if, &c .. . . . . 162 bay ... 400 in locating bridges across the Mississippi across the Saint Louis river . . . 477 river, to have due regard to, &c. . . 215 to expend appropriation for removal of to employ at once Benn Pitman to sunken wreck from the channel-way make a full transcript of his phono- oil' Sandy Hook 406 graphic notes of the proceedings of the to contract for the construction of a lightcourt of inquiry in the case of General draught snag-boat to ply on the Missis- Don Carlos Buell, and place the same sippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers, 418 on file in the records of the War De- to expend appropriations to pay for proppartment . . . ... 280 erty taken to, extend the military resto designate a board of officers to test at ervation of Camp Mohave 467 least three models of heavy ordnance, 261 to sell portion of military reservation of to adopt a breech-loading system for Fort Ripley at public auction . 481, 482 muskets and carbines 261 to select certain commissary sergeants, to establish restrictions under which cer- &c. ..,. 485 tain military reservations may be to have the rebel archives examined and crossed by certain railroads 280 copies made for the use of the governto transfer to the Secretary of the In- ment . . . 500 terior the control of the Fort \Valla- toestablish signal-stations atlight-houses Walla military reservation 335 and life-saving stations, and connect to cause the medical and surgical history them with, &c . 511 of the war to be completed 338 to pay for expenses of suppressing Inmay sink an artesian well on the Fort diau hostilities in Montana 639 D. A. Russell military reservation . 344 to sell at public auction clothing of the to release certain lands in Plattsburgh, old style, when the new uniform is New York, to the New York and distributed · . 545 Canada Railroad Company S45 to award contract for furnishing beadto cause the graves of soldiers in the stones for national cemeteries . . . 545 national cemeteries to be marked with to determine size, model, &c., of headstones, &c. . . . . . . . . 845 such headstones . . 545
