The fifteen bands authorized by section 7 of the Act approved July 28, 1866, the stations of which are designated in General Orders, No. 87, of October 22, 1866, from this office, will be uniformed as follows: Those at West Point; Fort Columbus, New York Harbor; Richmond, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina; Louisville, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Harbor of San Francisco, California, in the prescribed dress for Infantry. Those at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; San Antonio, Texas; Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, in the prescribed dress for Cavalry. Those at Fort Adams, Rhode Island; Fort Monroe, Virginia, in the prescribed dress for Artillery. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. OFFICIAL: Assistant Adjutant General. I..Section 25 of the act approved July 28, 1866, entitled "An act to increase and fix the military peace establishment of the United States," enacts: "That the office of sutler in the Army and at military posts is hereby abolished, and the Subsistence Department is hereby authorized and required to furnish such articles as may from time to time be designated by the Inspectors General of the Army, and the same to be sold to officers and enlisted men at cost prices; and if not paid for when purchased, a true account thereof shall be kept, and the amount due the Government shall be deducted by the Paymaster at the payment next following such purchase: Provided, That this section shall not go into effect until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven." II.. In accordance with the provisions of this act, the warrants of all sutlers to the Army will terminate July 1, 1867; and after that date no sutler will be allowed, under any circumstances, to keep or sell goods of any description within the limits of any military post, camp, or station, or on any military reserve. Commanding officers are made responsible for the strict execution of this order. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. OFFICIAL: Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 7. Washington January 31, 1867. The following Joint Resolution and Act of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned: I..[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 1.] JOINT RESOLUTION to appoint two managers for the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, to fill certain vacancies. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Erastus B. Wolcott, of the State of Wisconsin, be, and he hereby is, appointed a manager of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of George H. Walker, of the third class of said managers, for the term which expires on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; and that John S. Cavender, of the State of Missouri, be, and he is hereby, appointed a manager of said corporation, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of P. Joseph Osterhaus, of the second class of said managers, for the term which expires on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy. Approved December 7, 1866. II.. [PUBLIC-No. 4.] AN ACT suspending the payment of moneys from the Treasury as compensation to persons claiming the service or labor of colored volunteers or drafted men, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the final report of the commissioners provided for in the second section of the act of Congress, entitled "An act making appropriation for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other purposes," approved July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be made, through the Secretary of War, to Congress; and no money shall be paid from the Treasury, or from any |