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Passed at the First Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of March, A. D. 1867; was adjourned on Saturday, the thirtieth day of March, A. D. 1867, to meet on Wednesday, the third day of July, A. D. 1867; met on the said third day of July, and continued in session until Saturday, the twentieth day of said July, on which day it adjourned to meet on Thursday, the twenty-first day of November, A. D. 1867; met on the said twenty-first day of November, and ended the second day of December, A. D. 1867.

Andrew Johnson, President. Benjamin F. Wade, President of the Senate. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHAP. I. — An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to incorporate a National Military and Naval Asylum for the Relief of the totally disabled Officers and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the United States,'" approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Members of Congress may be elected managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. That section third of the act to incorporate a national asylum for disabled officers and men of the volunteer forces of the United States, approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be amended by striking out the words "not members of Congress."

Approved, March 12, 1867.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation for commissioners to the Indian country. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the expenses of commissioners sent by the President to the Indian country.

Approved, March 14, 1867.

CHAP. III. — An Act to repeal a Joint Resolution entitled "A Resolution to provide for the Removal of the Wreck of the Steamship Scotland," approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

See post, p. 249.
Resolution for the removal of the wreck of the steamship Scotland from the entrance to New York harbor repealed. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint resolution entitled "A resolution to provide for the removal of the wreck of the steamship Scotland," approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Approved, March 16, 1867.

Secretary of War to furnish one complete suit of clothing to each invalid soldier, an inmate of any regularly constituted "Soldiers' Home." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized and required to furnish one complete suit of clothing to each invalid soldier who is an inmate of any regularly constituted "Soldiers' Home" in the United States, out of the stock on hand in the quartermaster's department.

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