1864,  June  20— The  monthly  pay  of  pri
vates  and  non-commissioned  officers  was
fixed  as  follows,  on  and  after  May  1 :

Sergeant  majors,  twenty-six  dollars ;
quartermaster  and  commissary  sergeants  of
Cavalry,  artillery,  and  infantry,  twenty-
two  dollars ;  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,  sap
pers  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 ;  far
riers  and  blacksmiths,  of  cavalry,  and  arti
ficers  of  artillery,  eighteen  dollars ;  privates
of  cavalry,  artillery  and  infantry,  sixteen
dollars;  principal  musicians  of  artillery
and  infantry,  twenty-two  dollars;  leaders
of  brigade  and  regimental  bands,  seventy-
five  dollars;  musicians,  sixteen  dollars;
hospital  stewards  of  the  first  class,  thirty-
three  dollars ;  hospital  stewards  of  the
second  class,  twenty- five  dollars  ;  hospital
stewnrds  of  the  third  class,  twenty-three
dollars."

July  4 — This  bill  became  a  Inw :
Be,  it  enacted,  &c.  That  the  President  of


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