Chapter XXXI. *to facilitate the Payment of Soldiers’ Bounties under Act of eighteen hundred and sixty-six.*March 19, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Additional clerks authorized to facilitate payment
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CHAP. XXXI.— An Act *to facilitate the Payment of Soldiers’ Bounties under Act of eighteen hundred and sixty-six.*March 19, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Additional clerks authorized to facilitate payment of soldiers’ bounties.Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ, for not more than one year, fifty additional clerks in the division of the second auditor’s office of the Treasury Department, to expedite furnishing1866, ch. 296, §§ 12, 13. information to the paymaster-general in regard to soldiers claiming bounty under the provisions of sections twelve and thirteen of the act entitled Vol. xiv. p. 322.“An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.See *post.* p. 64. and for other purposes,” approved July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, giving in all cases preference in said employmentPreference to certain soldiers and sailors. to soldiers and sailors honorably discharged from the service of the United States.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the TreasuryConvenient rooms to be procured. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to procure and to provide adequate and convenient rooms for all clerks employed in the examination of the muster-rolls in said office. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the assistant treasurers of theAssistant treasurers in New York and San Francisco to pay duplicate checks upon notice, &c. United States in the cities of New York and San Francisco be, and they are hereby, directed to pay duplicate checks, for bounties granted under the said act, upon notice and proof of the loss of the original check or checks, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.
FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 31, 34. 1868.44 Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,*Second comptroller and auditor each to detail a clerk to sign certain papers. That the second comptroller and second auditor are each hereby authorized to detail one clerk in his bureau, who may sign all certificates and papers issued under any of the several bounty acts for such comptroller and auditor, and such signature shall be as valid in all respects as if signed by the said comptroller and auditor, who shall be responsible respectively for the official acts of said clerks.
Approved, March 19, 1868.