Chapter CLVIII. for the Relief of certain Companies of Scouts and Guides organized in Alabama
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CHAP. CLVIII.— An Act for the Relief of certain Companies of Scouts and Guides organized in Alabama. March 3, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That Captain H. J. Springfield’sPayment to Captain H. J. Springfield’s and Captain John B. Kennamer’s companies of scouts and guides. company of scouts and guides, numbering forty-two officers and men, and Captain John B. Kennamer’s company of scouts and guides, numbering thirty-three officers and men, organized in northern Alabama, under orders of Brigadier-General R.
S. Granger, commanding the district of northern Alabama, approved by Major-General George H. Thomas, commanding the department of the Cumberland, shall be entitled to receive pay for their services from the date when they respectively joined such companies to the date when they were relieved from duty, respectively, at the price fixed by order of General Thomas, to wit: captains, three dollars ; lieutenants, two dollars ; sergeants, one dollar and fifty cents; and privates, one dollar per day ; the value of the clothing receivedClothing received to be deducted.Heirs, &c. if any dead, to receive the amount due deceased.Accounts how to be audited and paid. by each of said scouts and guides to be deducted from the amount due them respectively.
And if either of said scouts or guides is dead, or shall die before receiving the amount due him, his heirs or other legal representatives shall be entitled to receive the same. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That, in auditing and paying the foregoing accounts, the rolls of said companies now on file in the office of the adjutant-general of the army shall be the data to guide the accounting officers ; and said claims shall, when audited, be paid by the paymaster-general out of any money heretofore appropriated, or that may hereafter be appropriated, for the pay of the army.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That all other companies or parts ofOther scouts and guides to have like payment upon satisfactory proof. companies of scouts and guides organized or employed by General R. S. Granger under authority of or by the approval of Major-General George H. Thomas, commanding department of the Cumberland, be entitled to the same relief as provided for the companies named in the first section of this act: *Provided, however,* That before such payment satisfactory evidence of service shall be furnished by claimants and approved by the Secretary of War.
Approved, March 3, 1869.