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at all times provided with attendants, drivers, horses, mules, and whatever may be necessary for their efficiency; and it shall be his duty also to see that the ambulances are not used for any other purpose than that for which they are designed and ordered. It shall be the duty of the medical director, or chief medical officer of the army corps, previous to a march, and previous to and in time of action, or whenever it may be ne- issued previous to cessary to use the ambulances, to issue the proper orders to the captain for a march or in actho distribution and management of the same, for collecting the sick and wounded, and conveying them to their destination. And it shall be the duty of the captain faithfully and diligently to execute such orders; and the officers of the ambulance corps, including the medical director, shall make such reports, from time to time, as may be required by the Secre- Reports. tary of War, the surgeon-general, the medical director of the army, or the commanding officer of the army corps in which they may be serving; and all reports to higher authority than the commanding officer of the army corps shall be transmitted through the medical director of the army to which such army corps belongs.

First lieuten

and duties of.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the first lieutenant assigned to the ambulance corps for a division shall have complete control, under the ant, authority captain of his corps and the medical director of the army corps, of all the ambulances, medicine, and other wagons, horses, mules, and men in that portion of the ambulance corps. He shall be the acting assistant-quartermaster for that portion of the ambulance corps, and will receipt for and be responsible for all the property belonging to it, and be held responsible for any deficiency in anything appertaining thereto. He shall have a travelling cavalry forge, a blacksmith, and a saddler, who shall be under his orders, to enable him to keep his train in order. He shall have authority to draw supplies from the depot quartermaster, upon requisitions approved by the captain of his corps, the medical director, and the commander of the army corps to which he is attached. It shall be his duty to exercise a constant supervision over his train in every particular, and keep it at all times ready for service.

Second lieuten

and duties of.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the second lieutenant shall have command of the portion of the ambulance corps for a brigade, and ant, authority shall be under the immediate orders of the first lieutenant, and he shall exercise a careful supervision over the sergeants and privates assigned to the portion of the ambulance corps for his brigade; and it shall be the duty of the sergeants to conduct the drills and inspections of the ambulances under his orders, of their respective regiments. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the ambulances in the armies Ambulances to be used only for, of the United States shall be used only for the transportation of the sick &c. and wounded, and, in urgent cases only, for medical supplies; and all persons shall be prohibited from using them, or requiring them to be used, for any other purpose. It shall be the duty of the officers of the ambulance corps to report to the commander of the army corps any violation of the provisions of this section, or any attempt to violate the same. And any officer who shall use an ambulance, or require it to be used, for any other purpose than as provided in this section, shall, for the first offence, Penalty. be publicly reprimanded by the commander of the army corps in which he may be serving, and for the second offence shall be dismissed from the service.

What officers

take the wound

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That no person except the proper medical officers, or the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of and men only to the ambulance corps, or such persons as may be specially assigned, by ed, &c. to the competent military authority, to duty with the ambulance corps for the rear. occasion, shall be permitted to take, or accompany sick or wounded men to the rear, either on the march or upon the field of battle.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the ambulance corps shall be designated by such

Designation;

uniform of the corps.

Officers and men, how detailed, &c.

Names of officers and men

to be sent to of

general.

uniform, or in such manner as the Secretary of War shall deem proper: Provided, That officers and men may be relieved from service in said corps, and others detailed to the same, subject to the examination provided in the second section of this act, in the discretion of the commanders of the armies in which they may be serving.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commander of the army corps to transmit to the adjutant-general the names fice of adjutant- and rank of all officers and enlisted men detailed for service in the ambulance corps of such army corps, stating the organizations from which they may have been so detailed; and if such officers and men belong to volunteer organizations, the adjutant-general shall thereupon notify the governors of the several states in which such organizations were raised, of their detail for such service; and it shall be the duty of the commander of the Report of con- army corps to report to the adjutant-general, from time to time, the conduct, &c. duct and behavior of the officers and enlisted men of the ambulance corps, and the adjutant-general shall forward copies of such reports, so far as they relate to officers and enlisted men of volunteer organizations, to the governors of the states in which such organizations were raised.

Authority of commanders not impaired by this

act.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be construed to diminish or impair the rightful authority of the commanders of armies, army corps, or separate detachments, over the medical and other officers, and the non-commissioned officers and privates of their respective commands.

APPROVED, March 11, 1864.

March 11, 1864. CHAP. XXVIII. An Act to constitute Parkersburg, in the State of West Virginia, a Port of Delivery.

Parkersburg, in West Virginia, made a port of delivery.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Parkersburg, in the State of West Virginia, shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, within the collection district of New Orleans; and there shall be appointed a surveyor of customs to reside at said port, who shall, in addition to his own duties, perform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments prescribed by the act of congress approved on the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, for importing merchandise into Pittsburg, Wheeling, and other places. APPROVED, March 11, 1864.

March 14, 1864. CHAP. XXX.

Deficiency appropriation

for 1864.

Southeast

An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen. hundred and sixty-four, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:

For contingent expenses of the Southeast executive building, including Executive build- the extension, viz: For fuel, labor, light, and miscellaneous items, thirteen ing. thousand three hundred and five dollars.

Branch mint

at Denver.

Interior Department.

For supplying a deficiency in the current expenses of the branch mint at Denver, for the current fiscal year, eighteen thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents.

Interior Department.

For compensation of returns clerk, from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, six hundred

Returns clerk. dollars.
Surveyor-gen-

eral.

For compensation of the surveyor-general of Illinois and Missouri, to the thirty-first of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, when the

office was closed, one thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents.

For compensation of the surveyor-general of Arizona, and the clerks in his office, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

To supply deficiencies in the Department of Agriculture for the current year, as follows:—

For the purchase of sorghum seed, two thousand dollars.

For rebuilding shop in the propagating garden, eight hundred dollars.
For postage, thirteen hundred and twenty dollars.

For carpets, furniture, and cans for fruit, three hundred and fifty dol

lars.

For fuel, three hundred dollars.

War Department. For supplying a deficiency in the appropriations for the payment of the clerks, messengers, copyists, and laborers in the office of the quartermaster-general, one hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-six cents.

For salary of an additional assistant secretary of war, fifteen hundred dollars.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the purchase and manufacture of arms for volunteers and regulars, ordnance and ordnance stores, seven millions seven hundred thousand dollars.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the manufacture of arms at the national armory, seven hundred thousand dollars.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the surgeon-general's department, to wit:

For medical instruments and dressings, one million three hundred thousand dollars.

Department of Agriculture.

War Depart

ment.

Clerks, &c.

Additional assistant secretary.

Arms, ordnance, and ord

nance stores.

Surgeon-gen

eral's depart

ment.

Instruments and dressings.

For hospital stores, bedding, etc., one million two hundred thousand Hospital stores, dollars.

For hospital furniture and field equipments, three hundred thousand dollars.

For books, stationery, and printing, thirty-six thousand dollars.
For ice, fruits, and other comforts, one hundred thousand dollars.
For hospital clothing, forty thousand dollars.

&c.

Books, &c.
Ice, fruits, &c.

For citizen-nurses, thirty-eight thousand dollars.

For sick soldiers in private hospitals, seventeen thousand dollars.
For artificial limbs for soldiers and seamen, sixteen thousand dollars.
For citizen-physicians and medicines furnished by them, one hundred
and eighty-five thousand dollars.

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

For contingent expenses of the medical department, five thousand dol

lars.

For medicines and medical attendance for negro refugees, commonly called "contrabands," thirty-three thousand dollars.

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

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the subsistence of the army, to wit:

For volunteers and drafted men, five millions eight hundred and twentyfour thousand dollars.

For employees, six hundred [and] forty thousand six hundred and forty dollars.

For women, two hundred [and] eighteen thousand and four hundred dollars.

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To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the engineer depart- Engineer de

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For contingencies of fortifications, including field-works, five hundred thousand dollars.

partment.

Fortifications.

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Miscellaneous.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the quartermaster's department, to wit:

For purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, seventeen millions five hundred thousand dollars.

For regular supplies of the quartermaster's department, eighteen millions five hundred thousand dollars.

For barracks, quarters, etc., three millions five hundred thousand dol

lars.

For transportation of the army, thirty millions of dollars.

For incidental expenses of the quartermaster's department, two millions of dollars.

For transportation of officers' baggage, one hundred thousand dollars. For clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, seven millions of dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the adjutant-general's department:

For purchase of books of tactics, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Navy Department. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for fuel, and equipment and recruiting, in the bureau of equipment and recruiting, two million dollars.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for clothing for the navy, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses of the naval academy, thirty-eight thousand dollars.

For salary of commissioner to codify the naval laws, under joint resolution of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, three thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents.

For additional repairs at the Norfolk navy yard, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For wharf, machine-shop, bridge, buildings for naval stores, and other works at Port Royal, South Carolina, one hundred and forty-four thousand and six hundred dollars.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for filling in the grounds for the new foundry at the Brooklyn navy yard, forty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For temporary storehouse for provisions at the Brooklyn navy yard, two thousand dollars.

For temporary storehouse for provisions at the Boston navy yard, two thousand dollars.

State Department. - For salary of the minister at Salvador, from April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum, nine thousand sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.

Miscellaneous.

For salaries of clerks, messengers, watchmen, and Assistant treas- porter, in the office of the assistant treasurer at New York, twelve thousand dollars.

urer.

Electric telegraph.

Treasury extension.

For additional allowance to clerks in the office of the assistant treasurer at Boston, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to designated depositaries, two thousand dollars. For salaries of designated depositary at Santa Fé, New Mexico, and the clerk, watchman, and porter in his office, four thousand eight hundred dollars.

For supplying deficiency in the appropriation for facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States by electrical telegraph, twenty thousand dollars.

For refunding to the appropriation for the treasury extension the amount of payments made out of that fund for furniture, night-watch, and other miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the continuation of the north wing of the treasury extension, fencing, grading, and miscellaneous items, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous items for the treasury build

ing, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the payment of claims due various parties for furniture and for the New York alterations in the offices of the assistant treasurer and collector of customs Custom-house, at New York, and for constructing burglar-proof vaults, eighty thousand dollars.

For completing the repairs of the government warehouse on Staten Island, ten thousand dollars.

&c.

For alterations of the custom-house at Cincinnati, Ohio, twenty-five Custom-houses, thousand dollars.

For alterations of the custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky, fifteen thousand dollars.

For completion of the custom-house at Dubuque, Iowa, thirty thousand dollars.

For repairs and preservation of custom-houses, marine hospitals, and other public buildings, under the supervision of the treasury department, ten thousand dollars.

For furniture and repairs of furniture of the various public buildings, under the supervision of the treasury department, five thousand dollars.

&c.

Ephraim

For the payment of Ephraim Swett, for services as superintendent of the custom-house at Belfast, Maine, nine hundred and ninety-two dollars. Swett. For erecting new furnaces in the basement of the east wing of the pat- Patent-office ent-office building, fifteen thousand dollars.

For repairs of rooms in sub-basement of the west wing of the patent

office building, five thousand dollars.

For the capitol extension, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

building.

Capitol exten

For the construction of water-closets in the basement of the south front sion.

of the patent-office building, two thousand dollars.

For deficiency in the appropriation for keeping in repair and partially Post-office finishing and furnishing the post-office building, nine thousand one hun- building; dred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-nine cents.

For the completion of the post-office building in Philadelphia, twenty-in Philadelfive thousand dollars.

phia.

Damages from ch. 37, § 5. Vol.

the Sioux. 1863,

For deficiency in the appropriation for salaries and expenses of the commissioners appointed under the fifth section, act of sixteenth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, three thousand five hundred dollars. xii. p. 653. For deficiency to pay salary of one Indian agent, each, in Utah and Nevada Territory, from third March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in Utah and Neto the first July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at five hundred dollars vada. per annum, as increase pay, one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.

Indian agents

To supply deficiency in the appropriation for the public printing, one Public printhundred and eleven thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter no print- ing, paper, &c. ing or binding shall be done, or blank books be procured for any of the Printing, binding. &c. to be executive departments of the government without a written requisition on done only on the superintendent of public printing from the head of such department, written order, or for either house of congress, except on the written order of the secretary of the Senate or clerk of the House of Representatives, for which said printing, binding, or blank books may be required. And the said superintendent, in his annual report, shall hereafter be required to report Report of Suthe amount of work ordered and done, with a general classification there- perintendent. of, for each department.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for paper for the public print

ing, three hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the public binding, one hundred thousand dollars.

&c.
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Binding.

For lithographing and engraving for the House of Representatives, ten Lithographing, thousand dollars.

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