Chapter CCCLXI. for the Relief of the State of Connecticut and other States
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CHAP. CCCLXI.— An Act for the Relief of the State of Connecticut and other States.June 8, 1872.1861, ch. 21.Vol. xii. p. 276. Whereas the Treasury Department has decided that vouchers presentedPreamble. by the State of Connecticut for reimbursement, under the act of342FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 361–363. 1872. July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, of amounts paid1862, ch. 127.Vol. xii. p. 502. to second assistant and other surgeons, for services rendered in connection with raising and organizing volunteers within the State during the rebellion, are not admissible under the law, for the reason that the employment of the said medical officers was not authorized prior to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and whereas it appears that said officers actually rendered said services, and were paid in good faith by the said State, and were subsequently mustered or employed in the service of the United States:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment to Connecticut for amounts advanced to pay extra surgeons, &c.; be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any money appropriated to continue the settlement of accounts presented under the act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to pay to the governor of Connecticut, or to his duly authorized agents, any amounts advanced by the said State, in payment of extra surgeons or assistant surgeons for services rendered prior to their muster into the service of the United States; the said claims to be settled upon proper vouchers to be filed and passed upon by the proper accounting officers of the treasury.
Sec. 2. That where the vouchers of other States, for payments madevouchers:to other States for like claims upon proper vouchers. to extra surgeons or assistant surgeons of militia or volunteers accepted into the service of the United States, are situated similarly with those of Connecticut, the Treasury Department adjust and settle them according to the provisions of the foregoing section. Approved, June 8, 1872.