1861, August 6. Chap. 58. An act to authorize an increase in the corps of engineers and topographical engineers........ "August 6. Chap. 63. An act to increase the pay of the privates in the regular army, and in the volunteers in the service of the United States, and for other purposes....
THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, Second Session.—2 Dec. 1861–17 Aug. 1862 1861, December 24. Chap. 3. An act relative to court-martials in the army..... 490 December 24. Chap. 4. An act to provide for allotment certificates among the volunteer forces...............
1862, January 8. Chap. 6. An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States.......... "January 22. Chap. 10. An act to authorize the appointment of two assistant secretaries of war..............
"January 31. Chap. 15. An act to authorize the President of the United States in certain cases to take possession of railroads and telegraph lines, and for other purposes............................
"February 4. Chap. 18. An act to authorize the secretary of the interior to strike from the pension rolls the names of such persons as have taken up arms against the government, or who may have in any manner encouraged the rebels...........
66 February 12. Chap. 21. An act authorizing the temporary detail of naval officers......
"February 13. Chap. 24. An act to amend an act entitled An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," approved June 30, 1834..................................................... "February 13. Chap. 25. An act making appropriation for completing the defences of Washington, and for other purposes.........................
64 March 13. Chap. 40. An act to make an additional article of war.......... 496 March 19. Chap. 47. An act to provide for the appointment of sutlers
in the volunteer service, and to define their duties............................. 497 March 25. Chap. 49. An act to secure to the officers and men actually employed in the western department, or department of Missouri, their pay, bounty, and pension.......................
............ 501 April 2. Chap. 51. An act in addition to an act to refund and remit duties on arms imported by states, approved July 10, 1862 501 "April 2. Chap. 53. An act to prohibit the allowance or payment of pensions to the children of officers and soldiers of the revolution........... 502 46 April 16. Chap. 55. An act to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the medical department of the army.......... ..........502
46 May 14. Chap. 70. An act to facilitate the discharge of enlisted men for physical disability.....................................................................
May 20. Chap. 80. An act to authorize the appointment of medical storekeepers, and chaplains of hospitals............
June 2. Chap. 93. An act to prevent and punish fraud on the part of officers intrusted with making of contracts for the government............ 504
" June 18. Chap. 109. An act providing that the officers of volunteers shall be paid on the pay rolls of the regiments or companies to which they belong.........