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 812 INDEX. ecr o the Treasu, continued. Secrda o War, continued.) S fgddrgct the disbizsdments of azppropria- zcén the gouthern and southwestern tion for the prosecution and collection States ... .. . ., . . ... 28 of claims due the United States . . . 302 to furnish arms and equipments for the may sell, aftera. week’s public notice, and State of Tennessee, enough for ten convey real estate no longer needed for thousand State mllma . . 28 lighthouse purposes . 804 to dissolve commissions in regard to pay- to directexpenditure of appropriations for ment of slaves drafted or receive as life-boat station . 304 volunteers.  29 with the Postmaster-General, &e. may duty of as to restriction to grant of right exchange certain property in the park, of way to Whitehall and Plattsburgh in the city of New York  . 305 Railroad Company  60, 61 may designate any officer of the United duty of, in respect to the bureau for the States who has given bonds, &c. as a relief of freedmen and refugees ... 83 disbursing agent for public buildings. . 306 may sell Fort Gratiot military reservato direct the expenditure of the appropria- tion 123, 124 tion for collecting statistics of mines time; place, and manner of sale ..,.. 124 and mining. 306, 349 proceeds of sale, howto be applied. . 124 to transmit to Congress at every Dccem- duty of} in regard to removal of wreck of ber session, accounts of the expenditure steamsbip Scotia from New York harof the contingent expenses of the several bor. . . 174 bureaus. ... . . .. 311 appropriation for defences of suits against and of all expenditures for the pur- parties for executing orders of the govchase and repair of furniture. 811 ernment during rebellion ... .. 175 to settle accounts of certain disbursing toalppoint assistantcommissioncrs, agents, odlcers for expenditures already made. 814 c erks, &c. of frcedmcn’s bureau .. 198 to recommend to the President an ex- to issue desiccated potatoes and mixed amination into the accounts of consular vegetables to destitute persons of the officers ...i 322 South. . ... . . . . 246 to cause a transfer of an appropriation to take immediate measures to reduce for the aper for the public printing to the expenses of the army and war depublic Einding, lithographing, and en- partment at and near New York city. 247, graving   .. 343, 344 248 duty of; under resolution, to protect the to employ counsel to defend officers or fur seal in Alaska .. 348 persons intrusted with the enforce- Secretary of War, ment of the reconstruction acts, against appropriations for pay of] and for office suits in relation to their odieial sets. .. 248 of. . . .101, 103, 294 to appoint board of competent engineers to furnish suit of clothing to each invalid to examine wreck of steamer Scotland. 249 soldier, a member of anyregularly con- to order, upon, &c. gratuitous issues of stituted “Soldiers’ Home " . . 1 clothing to soldiers who have had contn direct the disbursement of the appro- tagious diseases . . ... 250 miation for the reimbursement of West authorized to grant permission to Wilirginia ... 6 liam H. Kimberly to rebuild military to take possession of part of Long Island storehouse at Fort Monroe ... 250 in Boston harbor ... 7 to furnish ordnance to national usylums to direct the expenditure of all moneys for firing salutes  251 appropriated for the Washington aime- and small arms, &c. for guard duty.. 251 duct and other public works in the is- to issue rations for certain men engaged trict of Columbia. .. . . . . 12 in the exploration of the Colorado river 253 to furnish transportation, subsistence, and to sell site of Fort Covington, Maryland, protection to commissioners to treat at public auction, to highest bidder. . .. 254 with hostile Indians. . ... 17 to place certain damaged and captured may accept services of mounted volun- ordnance at the disposal of the Lincoln teers .. 17 Monument Association .. 255 to turn over the barracks, &c. at Camp to place in charge of certain persons, Chase, Ohio, to managers of national bronze cannon for statue of Majorasylum for disabled volunteer soldiers. 21 General John Sedgwick. 256 to se_l surplus clothing and stores to such to detail an otfeer to form part of romnationnl asylum ... . 21 mission upon the erection of a bridge to cause surveys, plans, and estimates to in Boston harbor. .. . 256 be made for ship canal between Lakes to cause damaged or unserviecable arms Erie and Ontario .. 21, 22 or ordnance stores to be sold. 259 and for ship canal around the falls of to issue certain clothing to ecrtain men of the Ohio river. ...,. 25 Company F, Eighteenth Infantry. 259 estimate of expense of completing the to state to Congress certain facts, with Louisville and Portland Canal 25 reports of examinations, &c. of rivers, to build and operate two dredge boats to &c. .. · . 262 keen open the mouth of the Missis- to furnish cannon and balls to Soldiers’ sippi .. 25 Monument Association of Pequannock duty ef, as to survey, &c. of western and and Paterson, N. J ... 4. . 263 northwestern rivers. 28 may order commencement of work You to issue through freedmen’s bureau sup— bridge over the Mississippi river at plies of food to prevent starvation, Rock Island,. . 258