repeal of former provisions...
twenty-four dollars per month allowed to
those who have lost arm above elbow or
leg above knee, but no artificial limbs
modified as to artificial limbs......
to persons who have lost one hand and one
PENSIONS-Continued.
allowed to soldiers, &c., in certain cases, al-
though they had engaged in rebellion 298, 310
to engineers in Navy to be according to
relative rank..
given to widows and orphans of those who
were stricken from rolls and died be-
fore restoration
on account of death, wounds, &c., during
late rebellion, when to commence...
rate of arrears of...
rules to be adopted by Commissioner...
requirement that claims for, shall not be
prosecuted after five years from date
of filing, except, &c., repealed......
agents and others not to receive pay for
services in applying for arrears of...
rate of arrearages of invalid, to be graded
from time to time
on account of disabilities, &c., occurring
after cessation of hostilities and be-
fore mustering out
commencement of, in consequence of death,
injuries, &c., since March 4, 1861.
not to receive pay while under suspen-
sion...
and policy shops in District of Columbia
prohibited....
permitting house to be used for, prohib-
ited....
not to be issued by national banks.
POST-OFFICE
Postal Service; Postmaster-General),
weighing of mails to be paid for out of ap-
-propriation for inland transportation.
mail lettings in Maryland, Virginia, and
District of Columbia, how advertised.95, 154
in each State and Territory to be post-
ed
154, 224, 323, 453, 549, 598
temporary mail service, how advertised...
accounts of, how to be kept
limitation of contracts by departments to
supplies for one year not to apply to
mail bags, locks, postal cards, &c...
commissions, postmasters appointed by Pres-
ident to be made and recorded in, &c.
clerks of classes not to be paid from appro-
priations made for other purposes...
to be appointed, one at each military post,
on recommendation of council of
administration, &c......
POTASSA,
chromate and bichromate of, duty on......
PRE-EMPTION,
settlers changing entries from, to home-
not to be accepted for themselves or others
by diplomatic or consular officers, sec-
retaries of legations, &c.....
PRESIDENT,
may detail officers of Navy as superintend-
ents, instructors, &c., at nautical
schools at certain ports...
may appoint commissioner to make inves-
tigation in regard to certain Indian
contracts
may assign assistant medical purveyors of
Army to act as surgeons..
may allow extraordinary expenses of min-
isterial officers in executing laws...
may fill vacancies in Military Academy
may make regulations for government of
Army..
149, 255, 494
steads; when may perfect title.. 299, 325, 348
notices on contests under laws of; how pub-
to appoint justices of the peace, notaries
public, and commissioners of deeds
for District of Columbia....
...336, 337
clerks and employés at Executive Man-
sion...
378
to appoint a Mississippi River commission
to direct and complete surveys of the
river, &c
duties of, in relation to centennial inter-
national exhibition.......
registers and receivers of money for land
districts (see Registers; Receivers)....
PRICES-CURRENT,
496
518-522, 617
to appoint a Judge-Advocate-General of
Navy
in case of cancellation of entry claimant to
to be notified..
entries for, on lands granted to railroad
companies may be perfected and
other lands selected by companies..
entries in limits of land grants prior to no-
tice of withdrawal, &c., confirmed..
claims abandoned on account of decision
of land officers may be renewed
entered after expiration of land grant
deemed valid..
settlers on lands injured by grasshoppers in
certain years may be absent, &c. (see
Grasshoppers)
to be furnished by consular officers to Sec-
retary of Treasury...
at Government Printing Office, pay of
to have pay for certain holidays....
only skilled workmen to be employed....
PRISONERS (See Convicts; Penitentiaries),
convicts to have deduction from sentence
for good behavior
on discharge to be furnished with clothes
and money...
designation of penitentiaries for, by Attor-
in District of Columbia, where to be con-
lands of Fort Kearney in Nebraska subject
time of payment for lands in Bitterroot Val-
ley, Montana, extended..
jurisdiction of district courts in, cases.
insurrectionary property not condemned as.
special counsel in cases of.....
settlers on public lands in Minnesota al-
lowed further time to make proof
and payment.....
26, 491
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