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 144 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 144, 145. 1864. ances in that behalf to make and deliver, and the proceeds thereof to apply, under the direction of the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, in the State of California, and his successors in office, or other proper authority of the Roman Catholic church in said state, for the purposes of education anywhere within said state, not inconsistent with the laws thereof; anything in such patent, or in the original grant or concession of said tract or rancho, or other title whereby the same was acquired from and under the authorities of Spain or Mexico, to the contrary notwithstanding; and all trusts, conditions, provisions, or covenants, precedent or subsequent, expressed or implied, in said patent, grant, concession, Bi-caches of or title, to the contrary hereof, and all breaches of the same, are hereby °°*1d“i°¤¤· &°·» wholly`waived, abro ted, discharged, dispensed with, and released on the xm gg,,?: part of the United Sfates, for the purposes of this act; and any convey. ance or disposition made in pursuance thereof shall operate to pass all the right and interest of the United States in said lands to the grantee. Approved, June 20, 1864. Jun, 20, 1g64_ Cnr. CXLV.—An Act to increase the Payjzf Soldiers in the United States Amy, ——-—-——~——·*’* and for other UTPOS8S. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the drst day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and during the continuance of 1>ay_ ofnon- the present rebellion, the pay per month of non-commissioned officers and . f,‘;‘;‘r’:‘£§’“;{ °*" privates in the military service of the United States shall be as follows, v,,;.,,,;,,;;,!,; mm- viz: Sergeant-majors, twenty-six dollars; quartermasters and commis- ¤¤'.7 ¤¤}‘vi<>¤ of sary-sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty-two dollars; th°Um°°d s°°°°°‘ first sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty-four dollars; sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty dollars; sergeants of ordnance, sappers and miners, and pontoniers, thirty-four dollars; corporals of ordnance, sappers and miners, and pontoniers, twenty dollars; privates of engineers and ordnance of the first class, eighteen dollars, and of the second class, sixteen dollars; corporals of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, eighteen dollars; chief buglers of cavalry, twenty-three dollars; buglers, sixteen dollars; farriers and blacksmiths of cavalry, and artificers of artillery, eighteen dollars; privates of cavalry, artillery, and in- ["Mu¤ici¤¤S." tv fantry, sixteen dollars; principal musicians of artillery and infantry, pm; P. 416.] dollars; musicians, sixteen dollars; hospital stewards of the first class, thirty-three dollars; hospital stewards of the second class, twenty-five dollars; hospital stewards of the third class, twenty-three dollars. Arrnyntion to Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the army ration shall here- Num um “”“°· after be the same as provided by law and regulations on the first day of Radon of pep- July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one: Provided, That the ration of pep- P°"• per prescribed in the eleventh section of the “Act to promote the efficiency of the corps of engineers and of the ordnance department, and for other 1863, ch. 78,9 purposes," approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall 1%,0, xi, continue to be furnished as heretofore. But nothing contained in this act . p. 744. _ _ shall be construed to alter the commutation value of rations as regulated by existing laws. _Non-commis- Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all non-commissioned omcers mgufat m-mam- to July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall have the 2;%% l¤f+f¤¤> July privilege of reenlisting for the term of three years in their respective enmttgduizfy organizations until the first day of August next; and all such non—com— certain bounties. missioned officers and privates so rednlisting shall be entitled to the Pg}’o}tR°¤·41g8·5· bounties mentioned in the joint resolution of congress approved January ’p'thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Sec. 4. And be itherthsr enacted. That there be added to the battalion
 * L‘EL“d§€';hI‘If6_ G8_ twenty-two dollars ; leaders of brigade and regimental bands, seventy-five
 * l:3°i,$f£‘;;'€u and privates in the regular army, serving under enlistments made prior