Colored Soldiers and Sailors,

appropriations for Indian service in..... 199,

appropriations for bounties, prize money,
&c..
Colored Soldiers, Sailors, or Marines,

checks or treasury certificates issued to
pay claims of, for pay, bounty, prize-
money, &c. due to those in States
where slavery existed in 1860, to be
made payable to commissioner of freed-
men's bureau....

no money to be paid, except to, &c....
powers of attorney, tranfers and assign-
ments not to be recognized............
discovery, payment, &c. of claimants to
be facilitated..

219, 222

302

26

26

26

26

in settlements with agents or attorneys,
strict compliance with scale of fees en-
joined..

....

agents, &c. demanding repayment of
money advanced, to make oath, &c.... 27
amounts found due to claimants to be
paid in current funds......
disbursements to be made under rules
governing disbursing officers of the
army..

222

26

27

27

Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb,

appropriation for.........

17

appropriation for the support of....
superintendent to report expenditures an-

233

to report to the President of the United
States...

18

nually to Congress..

appropriation for beneficiaries of the
United States in..

contingent expenses of...

pay of umpire and secretary of..

of the United States at the Universal Ex-
hibition at Paris, provisions concern-
ing....

.19, 20
powers and duties of commissioners...19, 20
See Universal Exhibition.

relative to payments for slaves drafted or
received as volunteers to be dissolved,
and commissioners and clerks paid.... 29
to investigate accounts for feeding friendly
destitute Indians..........

of whom to consist.
duties, &c. of...

to sit at Fort Leavenworth..
clerk to, authorized, pay, &c..

to examine and report on meters for dis-
tilled spirits....

of naval officers, respecting the sale of
certain iron-clads..

176

176

176

176

176

....246, 247

.....

247

234

305

site therefor to be given to the United
States...

305

appropriation for post-office and court-
house at.

appropriations for arsenal at........317, 318

appropriations for the.....

Commanding Generals. See Rebel States,

in the military districts, duties of, in re-
gard to registration........2, 3, 14, 15, 16
certain acts of, in military districts, ap-
proved.....

Commerce,

15

492

550

.474-488

..609-611

......57, 319, 320

Commercial-Navigation Company of New York,
Postmaster-General may contract with,

for weekly, &c. conveyance of all Euro-
pean and foreign mails of the United
States, between New York and Bremen,
&c..

in relation to the erection of a bridge in
Boston Harbor..

to run and mark the boundary line be-
tween the United States and British
possessions....

310

to investigate the claims of the Senecas,
Quapaws, &c. for losses by the war.... 516
to adjudicate claims, &c. treaty provisions
between the United States and Mexico
concerning. See Mexico.........680, 684
Commissioner of Agriculture,

91

penalty upon, for contracting for goods,
&c. beyond appropriation.....
appropriations for, and for office of..106, 297
to regard the library under his control as
part of the property of the department
of agriculture...
Commissioner of Bureau for Relief of Refugees,
&c.

duty of, in respect to the discontinuance
of the bureau, in any State......
as to unexpended balances in his
hands..

may retain certain officers of veteran re-
serve corps and of volunteers..

may sell schools and other buildings..

mode of sale and proceeds..

.229, 230

vacancy, how filled...

193

who not to act as commissioner.

193

See United States Mail Steamship Line.
Commissary Department,

no new appointments and no promouons
in, until otherwise directed by law.... 318
Commissary-General,

appropriations for office of......102, 294, 295
Commission,

to treat with hostile Indian tribes.....
appointment of, and of whom to consist
their powers and duties...

transportation, subsistence, &c. of.....

17

17

.17, 18

17

certain balances certified by, not to be
modified by heads of departments.... 54
appropriations for the office of.......97. 288
Commissioner of Education,

appropriation for salary of, and of clerks

36, 106, 291

8,