Reserve Indians. visions. Reserve Indians.-For four hundred and one thousand five hundred Rations of pro- rations of provisions-the same being daily rations to two thousand two hundred Indians, at sixteen cents per ration-furnished and to be furnished the Wichita, and other Reserve Indians, by Charles B. Johnson, contractor, from August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (under article fourth of treaty made with Reserve Indians, August twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,) sixty-four thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Orens, wagons, plows, &c. Cows, calves and For the purchase of oxen, wagons, plows, and other implements, (under article fourteen of said treaty,) ten thousand dollars. For present purchase of cows, calves, and other stock animals, to be other stock ani- distributed from time to time by agent, (under article fourteen of said treaty,) three thousand dollars. mals. assista n t s wagon maker. Hire of smith, For hire of smith, assistant and wagon-maker, for three months, and ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at seventeen hundred and ten dollars per annum, (under article sixteen of said treaty,) four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Shops, iron, steel, &c. Medicines. Compensation of physician. Pay of farmers. Hire of laborers. For shops for smith and wagon-maker, iron, steel, tools and materials, (under article sixteen of said treaty,) one thousand dollars. For purchase of medicines for the year eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, (under article sixteen of said treaty,) four hundred dollars. For compensation of physician of Reserve Indians, for three months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum, (under article sixteen of said treaty,) one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-cents. For pay of ten farmers, for three months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at five hundred dollars per annum, cach, (under article sixteen of said treaty,) one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. dollars. For hire of twenty laborers, for three months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at fifteen dollars per month, each, (under article seventeen of said treaty,) nine hundred Subsistence of For subsistence of ten farmers and twenty laborers, for three months, farmers and 1a - ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (under articles sixteen and seventeen of said treaty,) one thousand dollars. Materials, &c., For purchase of materials, &c., for the erection of houses for farmers, interpreters and Indians, (under article seventeen of said treaty,) five hundred dollars. borers. for the erection of. houses. Camanche In dians. visions. Camanche Indians. For three hundred and twenty-one thousand rations of provisions-the same being daily rations to three thousand Rations of pro- Indians, at sixteen cents per ration-furnished and to be furnished, the Camanches, by Charles B. Johnson, contractor, from November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (under article fifteen of treaty made with the Camanches, August twelfth, eighteen hundred sixty-two,) fifty-one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Oxen, wagons, carts, &c. Cows, calves and For purchase of oxen, wagons, carts, plows, and other implements to be distributed to the Camanches, (under article fifteen of said treaty,) five thousand dollars. For present purchase of cows, calves, and other stock animals, to be other stock ani- distributed from time to time by the agent, (under article fifteen of said treaty,) twenty-five hundred dollars. For hire of smith, striker, and wagon-maker, for three months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at seventeen hundred and ten dollars per annum, (under article seventeen of said treaty,) four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Shops, tools. iron, steel, &c. Medicines. For shops, tools, iron, steel, coal and materials for smith and wagonmaker, (under article seventeen of said treaty,) one thousand dollars. For purchase of medicines of Camanches for year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (under article seventeen of said treaty,) four hundred dollars. For compensation of physician for three months, ending February eigh-Compensation of teenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at seven hundred and fifty dollars physician. per annum, (under article seventeen of said treaty,) one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. horses stolen by For paying individual Seminoles for horses stolen by Camanches, (under Seminoles, for article twenty-three and schedule B, of said treaty,) three thousand four hundred and eighty-seven dollars. For purchase of materials, &c., for the erection of houses, (under article eighteen of said treaty,) five hundred dollars. Camanches. Materials, &c., for houses. Contingencies of of Indian Affairs; SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any office, &c., of the money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to provide for the Superintenden ey contingencies of office, office rent, &c., of the Superintendency of Indian and e atingeat exAffairs, and the contingent expenses, repairs, &c., of the several Indian penses, &c., of luAgencies, for nine months, ending February eighteenth, eighteen hundred dian Agencies. and sixty-two. appro the amount priated may be SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That of the aggregate amount appro- $265,927 25 of priated by this act, the sum of two hundred and sixty-five thousand, nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents, being the whole paid in coin. amount of arrearages, annual payments, and interest due the said several Indians and Tribes, and to be due by the thirtieth day of December, of the present year, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, may be paid in coin, if the President shall so direct. And the sum of eighty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purchase of coin, if so much be for the purchase of necessary. Appropriation coin. tribes. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the appropriations hereby made When the appromay, at the discretion of the President, be forthwith paid into the hands priations to be paid of the proper officers or agents of the government and transmitted, in order over to the Indian that they may be promptly paid over to the said tribes of Indians, under the said treaties, when the amendments made by this government shall have been ratified as parts of said several treaties by the respective tribes. APPROVED December 24, 1861. CHAP. XXVIII.-An Act relating to the custody of the returns and certificates of the votes of the Electors for President and Vice-President. 1861, Dec. 31. Custody of the electoral votes for The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the returns of the votes for President and Vice-President by the electors returns, &c., of the of the several States, shall be delivered, for the time being, to the Vice- President and Vice President of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States, who President. shall deliver the same to the President pro tempore of the Senate of the Confederate States on the eighteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. APPROVED December 31, 1861. CHAP. XXIX.-An Act to provide for a corps of Engineers for the Provisional Army. 1861, Dec. 31. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Appointment of ofthe President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint officers of engi- ficers of engineers. and pay. Number, rank neers in the provisional army, to a number not exceeding fifty, and of rank not higher than captain, whose pay and emoluments shall be the same as those allowed for officers of a like grade in the permanent army of the When appoint- Confederacy, and whose appointments shall expire at the end of the pendments to expire. ing war. APPROVED December 31, 1861. 1861, Dec. 31. Temporary rank on duty in the sev CHAP. XXX.-An Act to amend "An act to authorize the President to confer temporary rank and command for service with volunteer troops, on officers of the Confederate army," approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.” Be it enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, and command on That the above entitled act be so amended that, in addition to the power cers of the army therein granted, the President of the Confederate States be, and he is eral bureaus of the hereby, authorized to confer temporary rank and command upon officers Adjutant and In- of the Confederate army on duty in the several bureaus of the Adjutant spector General, and Inspector General, Chief of Engineers and Chief of Ordnance, to and Chief of Ord- cease at the end of the war; the same to be held without prejudice to the positions in said army. Chief of Engineers, nance. APPROVED December 31, 1861. 1861, Dec. 31. Payment of eer CHAP. XXXI.--An Act to provide for the payment of certain Indian troops. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That tain Indian troops. the proper quartermaster in the military department of Indian territory be authorized to pay the officers and men of the company of Creek mounted volunteers, raised in the month of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, by authority of the commissioner of the Confederate States, for local pur poses, at the North Fork village, in the Creek country; and of the Cherokee regiments of Colonels Stand Watie and John Drew, and of the Choctaw and Chickasaw regiment of Colonel Douglas H. Cooper, and of the Creek regiment of Colonel Daniel N. McIntosh, and of the companies of Seminoles raised by the Chief, by authority of the same Commissioner, and of the other troops, called into the service by Colonel Douglas H. Cooper, to aid in suppressing the insurrection of a part of the Creeks, and of any called into service by the Creek Agent for the same purpose, by direction of the Commissioner, for the times during which all of said troops were in the service, after being organized and before being mustered into the service, in the same manner as if they had been mustered in at the res pective times when they were organized and received by the Commissioner or either of said officers; which payments shall be made upon special pay Allowance in lieu rolls for that purpose: Provided, That the allowance in lieu of clothing shall be paid only to such of said officers and men as shall have since been or may be mustered into the service, and that none shall be paid who have deserted or disbanded without permission, or have taken sides with the insurrectionists among the Creeks. of clothing. ters Accounts of ac- SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounts of the acting com ting commissaries missaries and quartermasters of all said troops shall be settled and paid in and quartermasof Indian the same manuer as if the troops with or for which they acted had been troops, how settled regularly mustered into the service at the time when they were organized and received; and that the debts incurred or moneys advanced by them, moneys ad-be paid by the brigade quartermaster of the brigade commanded by Brig and paid. Debts incurred Proviso. adier General Albert Pike: Provided further, That said accounts shall be vanced by them, by also approved by the said Brigadier-General, and that the prices paid by whom to be paid. them be found by him not to have been excessive or exorbitant, and the debts to have been contracted in good faith, and the moneys actually advanced. APPROVED December 31, 1861. CAAP. XXXII.-An Act to make additional appropriations to defray the expense of the 1861, Dec. 31. Public Printing. War Depart The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That, Appropriation to in addition to the appropriations heretofore made by law, the following pay for Public Printing up to 18 sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to pay the expense of the Feb., 1861. Public Printing up to the eighteenth day of February, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to-wit: For the War Department, twenty thousand dollars; for the Post-Office Department, sixteen thousand dollars; Post-office Defor the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars; for the Department of partment. State, five hundred dollars; making, in all, the sum of thirty-seven thousand Treasury Dedollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- Partment. priated. APPROVED December 31, 1861. ment. Department of State. CHAP. XXXIII.—An Act to establish a mail route from Hicks' Ford to Lawrenceville, in Virginia. 1862, Jan. 2. Post route esfrom Hicks' Ford to The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the following additional post route be, and the same is hereby, established, tablished namely: From Hicks' Ford, in the county of Greensville, to Lawrence- Lawrenceville. ville, in the county of Brunswick, in the State of Virginia. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster-General be First contract for hereby authorized to make the first contract for carrying the mail over carrying mail over said route may be said route, without the necessity of advertising for bids for said contract, made without adas required by existing law. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act making appropriations for certain floating defences. Be it enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the sum of one million of dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for floating defences for the Western rivers, to be expended, at the discretion of the President, by the Secretary of War, or Secretary of the Navy, as he shall direct. APPROVED January 9, 1862. vertising for bids. Commencement of act. 1862, Jan. 9. Appropriation fences for the Wesfor floating de tern rivers. 1862, Jan. 10. CHAP. XXXV.-An Act making certain provisions in regard to Indian trust funds. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all sums of money, bonds or securities of any kind, belonging to any Indian &c., belonging to Moneys, bonds, government of the C. S. is the custo certain Indian tribe or tribes, with whom treaties have been, or may be, made by the tribes, of which the Confederate States, and of which said sums of money, bonds, and other securities, the Government of the Confederate States is, or may hereafter become, dian, to be depos- the custodian, as the trustee of such tribe or tribes, shall be deposited in the ited in the treasu- treasury of the Confederate States. ry. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and Secretary of War he is hereby, authorized to draw his requisition for each and all sums of may draw his requisition for any money deposited in the treasury, as aforesaid, in favor of said Indians, or moneys deposited. any of them, to whom such money may belong, or who may be authorized to receive it. APPROVED January 10, 1862. 1862, Jan. 11. vice. Appropriations Officers of the navy. CHAP. XXXVI.-An Act appropriating two hundred and twenty-three thousand, six hundred and seven dollars for the naval service. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That for the naval ser- the sum of one hundred and fifteen thousand, six hundred and seven dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for the pay of officers of the navy, on and off duty, to the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; Warrant and and that the further sum of one hundred and eight thousand dollars be, petty officers, sea- and is hereby, appropriated for the pay of warrant and petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, soldiers and boys, and engineers department, to the same time, as per estimates of the Secretary of the Navy of the twenty-sixth December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. APPROVED January 11, 1862. men, &c. 1862, Jan. 11. CHAP. XXXVII.-An Act appropriating fourteen millions eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the military service. Appropriations. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That For pay of boun- the sum of fourteen millions four hundred thousand dollars be, and is ty and transporta hereby, appropriated for the pay of bounty and transportation, or commure-enlistment of tation thereof, for one hundred and fifty thousand men under the act protwelve months viding for re-enlistment of twelve months' men. tion, under act for men. For expenses un-;. SEC. 2. That the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and der act for recruit is hereby, appropriated for expenses under the act for recruiting recently ing, passed 19 Dec., passed. 1861. For salary of as SEC. 3. That the sum of eight hundred dollars be, and is hereby, approeistant Secretary priated for the salary of the Assistant Secretary of War, to the first day of War to 1st of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, as per estimates of the Secretary April, 1862. of War, of the twenty-seventh December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. APPROVED January 11, 1862. 1962, Jan. 14. Secretary of the CHAP. XXXVIII.—An Act to authorize the appointment of two additional clerks and a draftsman in the Navy Department. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That Navy may appoint the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint one clerks and one additional clerk, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, one two additional |