medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movements and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other department, thirteen million dollars.

For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, twenty-one million dollars.

For mileage, or the allowances made to officers of the army for the transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, seven hundred thousand dollars.

For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops when moving, either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, from the depots at Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New York to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships, and other sea-going vessels, and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, forty million dollars,

For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops; of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores; of grounds for summer cantonments; for the construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, five million dollars.

For heating and cooking-stoves, one hundred thousand dollars.

For constructing and extending the telegraph, for military purposes, and for expenses in operating the same, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For supplies, transportation, and care of prisoners of war, nine hundred thousand dollars.

For purchasing, constructing, and maintenance of steam-rams, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and for expenses of offices and arsenals, fifty-eight million dollars.

For contingencies of the army, four hundred thousand dollars.

For medicines, instruments, and dressings, two million seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

For hospital stores, bedding, and so forth, three million five hundred and eighty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For hospital furniture and field equipments, six hundred and eighteen thousand dollars.

For books, stationery, and printing, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For ice, fruits, and other comforts, three hundred thousand dollars.
For hospital clothing, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For citizen nurses, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.

For care of sick soldiers in private hospitals, thirty-one thousand two hundred dollars.

For artificial limbs for soldiers and seamen, forty-five thousand dollars.

For citizen physicians, and medicines furnished by them, four hundred and five thousand dollars.

For hire of clerks and laborers in purveying depots, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Citizen physi

cians, &c.

Purveying

depots.

Medical mu

For examining and recording meteorological observations taken at the Meteorological military posts of the United States army, seven hundred and fifty dollars. observations. For army medical museum, five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the medical department, forty-seven thou-seum. sand eight hundred and thirty-eight dollars.

For laboratory for testing and rearranging medicines and hospital supplies, five thousand dollars.

For washing and washing-machines for hospitals where matrons cannot be employed, fifteen thousand dollars.

For expenses of the commanding general's office, ten thousand dollars.
For the secret service, one hundred thousand dollars.
For armament of fortifications, two million dollars.

Contingencies.

Laboratory.

Washing and machines.

Commanding

general's office. Secret service. Armament of fortifications.

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, five hundred thousand dollars. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including the purchase Ordnance and and manufacture of arms, accoutrements, and horse equipments for volunteers and regulars, twenty million dollars.

For the manufacture of arms at the national armory, two million five hundred thousand dollars.

For repairs, improvements, and new machinery at the national armory, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the purchase of gunpowder and lead, two million dollars. For repairs and improvements at arsenals, including new and additions to present buildings, and machinery, tools, and fixtures, two million dollars.

For the signal service of the army, one hundred thousand dollars. For compensation of two clerks in the signal-office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

stores.

Manufacture

of arms.

Repairs, &c.,

at armory. Gunpowder and lead. Arsenals.

Signal service.

of color mustered

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons of color who have Pay, rations, been or may be mustered into the military service of the United States &c., of persons shall receive the same uniform, clothing, arms, equipments, camp equi- into the military page, rations, medical and hospital attendance, pay and emoluments, other service. than bounty, as other soldiers of the regular or volunteer forces of the United States of like arm of the service, from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; and that every person of color who shall hereafter be mustered into the service shall receive such sums in bounty as the President shall order in the different states and parts of the United States, not exceeding one hundred dollars.

volunteers with

Pay, bounties, &c., of colored

soldiers.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all persons enlisted and mus- Bounties to be tered into service as volunteers under the call, dated October seventeen, paid to certain eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for three hundred thousand volunteers, out regard to who were at the time of enlistment actually enrolled and subject to draft color. in the state in which they volunteered, shall receive from the United States the same amount of bounty without regard to color. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all persons of color who were free on the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and who have been enlisted and mustered into the military service of the United States, shall, from the time of their enlistment, be entitled to receive the pay, bounty, and clothing allowed to such persons by the laws existing at the time of their enlistment. And the Attorney-General of Attorney-Genthe United States is hereby authorized to determine any question of law eral to determine, arising under this provision. And if the Attorney-General aforesaid shall determine that any of such enlisted persons are entitled to receive any pay, bounty, or clothing, in addition to what they have already received, the Secretary of War shall make all necessary regulations to

&c.

Enlistments

enable the pay department to make payment in accordance with such determination.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all enlistments hereafter into the regular made in the regular army of the United States, during the continuance of the present rebellion, may be for the term of three years. APPROVED, June 15, 1864.

army may be for

three years.

Home for the

less women and children incor

porated.

June 15, 1864. CHAP. CXXV.- An Act to incorporate the Home for Friendless Women and Children. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Mary T. Hay, Eliza M. relief of friend- Morris, Jane F. James, Eliza Wade Fitzgerald, Georgiana F. Speaks, Emily B. Ruggles, Indiana Plant, Mary Grayham, Maria Virginia Brown, and their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic, with a common seal, the right of succession, with ability to sue and liability to be sued as a natural person, and the said corporation shall be known by the name of "The Home for the Relief of Friendless Women and Children." The business of said corporation shall be the establishment, in the city of Washington, or at a convenient and eligible point not exceeding in distance seven miles from the city, of an institution where provision can be made by public charity for the care and relief of friendless and deserving females, and for the care and maintenance of young orphan or destitute children, male or female, who may be or are likely to become a charge upon public charity. And said corporation shall possess and enjoy all the powers essential and proper for the carrying out of the purposes of its creation.

Objects and powers of corpo

ration.

Real and personal estate.

First board of managers.

ciation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said corporation may receive, take, and hold, by purchase, gift, or devise, any real or personal estate, for the purposes contemplated in this act: Provided, however, That the nett annual income of their real estate shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Mary T. Hay, Eliza M. Morris, Eliza Wade Fitzgerald, Georgiana Speaks, Emily B. Ruggles, Indiana Plant, Jane F. James, Mary Grayham, Maria Virginia Brown, shall constitute the board of managers until the first Monday of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and until their successors shall be chosen or elected as herein provided. A meeting of the members of the associaMeeting of tion shall be held on the first Monday of May, eighteen hundred and sixtymembers of asso- five, at some convenient hour and place, in the city of Washington, of which two weeks' public notice shall be given by the board of managers, in two daily newspapers published in the city of Washington; and at such meeting the members of the association who shall be present shall proceed to elect a board of managers in the places of those hereby designated or authorized; and any manager may be reëlected from time to time. Each member, at such meeting, shall be entitled to one vote. An annual meetAnnual meeting of the associates or corporators shall, in like manner and upon like ing. notice, be held on the first Monday of May, in each year after eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the election of managers for the ensuing year; but if, in any case, the said meeting shall, for any reason, fail to be held on the day herein designated, the same may, upon the notice above proTerm of office vided, be held on any other day within three months thereafter; and the managers then elected shall hold their offices until the first Monday of May next ensuing, and until their successors shall be chosen, as aforesaid. The said board of managers shall have power to fill any vacancies occurring therein between the regular elections above provided in this act, and a majority of said board shall form a quorum for the transaction of busi

of managers.

Vacancies.

Management of the Home.

ness.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the board of managers shall have power to appoint such agents, matrons, assistants, and teachers, and to employ such domestics and servants, as shall be deemed necessary, and

association may

to make all needful and proper regulations for their respective, general, or specific duties, as well as for the government, direction, and control of all persons who may at any time become inmates of the "Home" authorized by this act, and may prescribe for the children and youth committed to their care such rules of discipline as shall be deemed by them necessary. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever any child who, from Children in the the neglect or inability of its parents or guardian to support it, shall charge of this become a charge upon public charity, and shall be surrendered to the be bound out, charge of the association, pursuant to the provisions of this act, by such parent or by its guardian, or by the overseer or superintendent of the poor of said city of Washington, or other officer having the charge of the poor, or whenever any destitute and dependant orphan shall be surrendered to such institution, in the manner herein provided, by an instrument in writing, duly signed by such parent, guardian, or public officer, the said board of managers may, in their discretion, place such child to service with some proper person under articles of indenture, to be executed in due form of law, with such provisions for maintenance and education as shall be approved by one of the judges of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; and the said board of managers are hereby authorized to permit the adoption of any such child by any respectable and proper person who, under provisions to be approved as aforesaid, shall undertake the maintenance, care, and proper education of such destitute or orphan child.

or adopted.

&c.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death or legal Mother may be incapacity of the father of any dependent child, or of the imprisonment guardian, when, of such father for crime, or of his abandoning or neglecting to provide for his family, the mother, if residing in the District of Columbia, shall be deemed the legal guardian of her children for the purposes of this act, and shall have power to make the surrender aforesaid. But in case the mother also be dead, or a non-resident of said district, or legally incapable of acting in the premises, or be imprisoned for crime, or neglect to provide for such child, and in case there be no guardian or other person legally bound to support such child, or qualified to make the surrender aforesaid, then, and in any such case, the superintendent of the poor, or the mayor of Washington, or other public officer having charge of the be guardian. poor, shall, for the purposes of this act, be required, as ex-officio guardian of such child, and may make, as such, the surrender of such child to the said corporation by the instrument in writing aforesaid, which surrender shall, in all respects, be as valid and effectual as if made by the father or Binding out of parent of such child: Provided, That no surrender of any such child shall child to be apbe made under the provisions of this section, unless such surrender shall, proved by a on examination, be approved by one of the judges of the supreme court judge.

of said district.

Who else may

Officers of the association.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the board of managers may elect from their own number a president, vice-president, and secretary; and they may further elect a treasurer. They may, in their discretion, appoint an executive committee, consisting of five members of their board, who may, under the general direction of the board, take charge of the affairs of the corporation during any recess of the board. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer of said corpora- Report to contion shall at any time upon the call of congress report a full and perfect statement of the affairs of such corporation, the location, value, and income of all real estate owned by it, the amount of its receipts, expenditures, investments, and personal estate, and all other information which congress may require.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That congress may at any time alter, amend, or repeal this act.

gress.

Act may be

repealed.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect When act takes immediately.

APPROVED, June 15, 1864.

effect.

June 15, 1864. CHAP. CXXVI. — An Act concerning certain School Lands in Township forty-five North, Range seven East, in the State of Missouri.

Certain school lands granted to

Missouri.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all of the lots, tracts, pieces, and parcels of land within the Grand Prairie common field, in township fortyfive north of the base line, in range seven east of the fifth principal meridian line in the State of Missouri, which have not heretofore been disposed of by the United States, shall be, and the same are hereby, granted, relinquished, and conveyed by the United States, in fee simple and in full property, to the State of Missouri, for the support of schools in said township: Provided, That nothing in this act shall in any manner abridge, divest, impair, injure, or prejudice any adverse right, title, or interest of Adverse rights any person or persons in or to any portion or part of the aforesaid lots, tracts, pieces, or parcels of land which are granted, relinquished, or conveyed by this act.

not affected.

June 17, 1864.

Certain contracts for the

purchase, &c., of gold coin and bullion and foreign exchange made unlawful.

ch. 209. Post, p. 344.1

APPROVED, June 15, 1864.

CHAP. CXXVII. - An Act to prohibit certain Sales of Gold and Foreign Exchange. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful to make any contract for the purchase or sale and delivery of any gold coin or bullion to be delivered on any day subsequent to the day of making such contract, or for the payment of any sum, either fixed or contingent, in default of the delivery of any gold coin or bullion, or to make [Repealed, 1864, such contract upon any other terms than the actual delivery of such gold coin or bullion, and the payment in full of the agreed price thereof, on the day on which such contract is made, in United States notes or national currency, and not otherwise; or to make any contract for the purchase or sale and delivery of any foreign exchange to be delivered at any time beyond ten days subsequent to the making of such contract; or for the payment of any sum, either fixed or contingent, in default of the delivery of any foreign exchange, or upon any other terms than the actual delivery of such foreign exchange within ten days from the making of such contract, and the immediate payment in full of the agreed price thereof on the day of delivery in United States notes or national currency; or to make any contract whatever for the sale and delivery of any gold coin or bullion of which the person making such contract shall not, at the time of Certain loans making the same, be in actual possession. And it shall be unlawful to make any loan of money or currency not being in coin to be repaid in coin or bullion, or to make any loan of coin or bullion to be repaid in money or currency other than coin.

made unlawful.

Contracts for purchase of gold, &c., to be made only at the ordinary place of business, &c.

Void contracts.

Penalty for violations of this

act to be fine or imprisonment.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be further unlawful for any banker, broker, or other person, to make any purchase or sale of any gold coin or bullion, or of any foreign exchange, or any contract for any such purchase or sale, at any other place than the ordinary place of business of either the seller or purchaser, owned or hired, and occupied by him individually, or by a partnership of which he is a member.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all contracts made in violation of this act shall be absolutely void.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall violate any provisions of this act shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than one thousand dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not less than three months, nor longer than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court, and shall likewise be subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars for each offence.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the penalties imposed by the