Chapter IV. *to provide for Allotment Certificates among the Volunteer Forces.* Dec. 24, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The President to appoint commissioners from each State to procure certified allotments of volunteers fr
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Chap. IV.— An Act *to provide for Allotment Certificates among the Volunteer Forces.* Dec. 24, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The President to appoint commissioners from each State to procure certified allotments of volunteers from such State. That the President of the United States shall appoint, for each State having volunteers in the United States service, not exceeding three persons, who shall be authorized by the President’s commission to visit the several departments of the army in which volunteers from their respective States may be, and there procure from said volunteers from time to time their respective allotments of their pay to their families or friends, duly certified in writing, and by them, or by some commissioned officer of such department, attested in pursuance of such orders as may be made for that purpose by the Secretary of War, and upon which certified allotment the several paymasters shall, at each regular payment to troops, give drafts payable in the city of New York,Allotments, how paid. to the order of such persons to whom said allotments were or may be made.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the persons appointed as commissionersCommissioners to receive no pay, &c. to carry into effect the preceding section of this act shall receive no pay or emoluments whatever from the Treasury of the United States. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the fifth section of the act ofSutler’s lien on soldier’s pay repealed twelfth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, giving sutlers a lien upon the soldier’s pay, be and the same is hereby repealed; and all regulations giving sutlers rights and privileges beyond the rules and articles of war1858, ch. 156, § 5, vol. xi. p. 336.*Post*, p. 371. be, and the same are hereby, abrogated.
Approved, December 24, 1861.