General Orders
No. 18 |
War Department,
Adjutant General's
Office
Washington,
July 9, 1860. |
The following acts of Congress, being of general interest to
the military service, are published officially to the Army:
AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the army for
the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one.
Be in enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated,
for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth
on June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one:
. . . . . . .
[5]
For the manufacture or purchase of apparatus
and equipments for field signals, two thousand dollars. And
that there be added to the staff of the army one signal officer,
with the rank, pay, and allowances of a major of cavalry who
shall have charge, under the direction of the Secretary of
War, of all signal duty, and of all books, papers, and apparatus
connected therewith.
. . . . . . .
[9]
Approved, June 21, 1860.
