GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 29. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant Ggnicral’s Offick, 
Washington, January 25, 1864. 
The following Acts of Congress are published for the information of 
all concerned: 
I..Public—No. 2. 
AN ACT to authorize the President to appoint a Second Assistant Secretary of War. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and 
he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate, for the term of one year from the passage of this act, 
an officer in the War Department, to be called the Second Assistant 
Secretary of War, whose salary shall be three thousand dollars per 
annum, payable in the same manner as that of the Secretary of War, 
who shall perform all such duties in the office of the Secretary of War, 
belonging to that department, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary 
of War, or as may be required by law. 
Approved January J9, 1864. 
II..Public—No. :5. 
AN ACT to provide for the deficiency in the appropriation for the pay of officers 
and men actually employed in the Western Department or Department of 
Missouri. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, 
appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated, the sum of seven hundred thousand six hundred and twelve 
dollars and thirteen cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 
to carry into effect the act approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen 
hundred and sixty-two, to secure to the officers and men actually 
employed in the Western Department or Department of Missouri their 
pay, bounty, and pension; Provided, however, That, in the payment of 
the money hereby appropriated, such payment shall be made directly 
to the officers or soldiers by whom the services were rendered, or to their personal representatives, or to their agents appointed by powers of 
attorney, and no assignment of any sum due to any officer or soldier 
shall be valid ; such payments to be made by paymasters of the United 
States Army: Provided further, however, That any person holding a 
power of attorney authorizing the receipt by him of the amount to be 
paid to any officer or soldier, may, upon making and filing an affidavit 
to the effect that he is acting in the premises purely as agent, without 
personal interest, and that he will pay over the amount received either 
to the soldier or (in his absence) to his wife or children, for their benefit, 
he entitled to receive such amount. 
Approved January 22, 16(54. 
III..Public—No. 4. 
AN ACT to amend the law prescribing the articles to be admitted into the mails of 
the United States. 
lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That articles of clothing 
being manufactured of wool, cotton, or linen, and comprised in a 
package not exceeding two pounds in weight, addressed to any non- 
commissioned officer or private serving in the armies of the United 
States, may be transmitted in the mails of the United States at the rate 
of eight cents, to be in all cases prepaid, for every four ounces, or 
any fraction thereof, subject to such regulations as the Postmaster 
General may prescribe. 
Approved January 22, 1864. 
order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutan General.