Chapter CXLIV. *making Appropriations for the Payment of the Bounty authorized by the Sixth Section of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Employment of Volunteers to aid in enforcing the Laws and protecting Public Property,” approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and for other Purposes.
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Chap. CXLIV.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Payment of the Bounty authorized by the Sixth Section of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Employment of Volunteers to aid in enforcing the Laws and protecting Public Property,” approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and for other Purposes.* July 11, 1862. 1861. ch. 9, § 6.*Ante*, p. 270. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Appropriation.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, viz.: For payment of the bounty to widows, children, fathers, mothers,Bounty to widows, &c., of volunteers. brothers, and sisters of such volunteers as may have died or been killed, or may die or be killed, in service, authorized by the sixth section of an act entitled “An act to authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property,” approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, five millions of dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary: *Provided,* That saidTo whom bounty shall be paid. bounty shall be paid to the following persons, and in the order following, and to no other person, to wit: first, to the widow of such deceasedWidow. soldier, if there be one; second, if there be no widow, then to the childrenChildren. of such deceased soldier, share and share alike; third, if such soldier left neither a widow, or child, or children, then, and in that case, such bounty shall be paid to the following persons, provided they be residents of the United States, to wit: first, to his father; or if he shall not beFather. living, or has abandoned the support of his family, then to the mother ofMother. such soldier; and if there be neither father nor mother as aforesaid, then such bounty shall be paid to the brothers and sisters of the deceasedBrothers, &c. soldier, resident as aforesaid.
For compensation of twenty additional clerks, hereby authorized to beTwenty additional clerks in pension-office. employed in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, to wit: For fifteen clerks of the first class, eighteen thousand dollars; for five clerks of the second class, seven thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the sum of three thousandExpenses of committee on disloyal employees. dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the expenses of the committee on disloyal employees of the government, appointed by resolution of the House of Representatives, July eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That that part of the sixth sectionBounty under act of 1861, ch. 9, § 6, to apply to those enlisting in the regular service during 1862, &c. of the act “to authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property,” approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, which secured to the widow, if there be one, and if not, the legal heirs of such volunteers as die or may be killed in service, in addition to all arrears of pay and alIowances, a bounty of one hundred dollars, shall be held to apply to those persons who have enlisted in the regular forces since the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shall enlist in the regular forces during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and be paid to the heirs named in this act; and that the bounties herein provided for shall be paid out of any money appropriated for bounty to volunteers.
Approved, July 11, 1862.