Chapter XXXI. *making Appropriations for the Signal Service of the United States Army.* February 22, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Pay of officers temporarily serving as signal officers
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Chap. XXXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Signal Service of the United States Army.* February 22, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Pay of officers temporarily serving as signal officers. That officers temporarily serving as signal officers shall receive, for the time they are so serving, the pay and emoluments of cavalry officers of their respective grades. Sec. 2. Appropriation for signal equipments, &c.*And be it further enacted*, That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz:
For the manufacture or purchase of signal equipments and signal stores, to equip and supply the forces now in the field, twenty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the signal department, one thousand dollars. For the manufacture or purchase of signal equipments and signal stores, for countersign signals, to prevent the collision of friendly regiments, thirty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Approved, February 22, 1862.