[ Striate BILL NO. 155.]
SENATE, Jail —Read "first and second times, and or-
dered to be placed uporHJie Calendar add. printed.
[By Mr. Simms, Select Committee.]
A BILL
To regulate the Pay and Allowances of certain Female Employees of
the Government.
1 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact,
2 That the salary, pay and allowances of the persons herein after
3 named shall be as follows:
4 1st. Females employed as clerks in the clothing branch of
5 the Quartermaster's Department, or in any hospital established
6 for the benefit of the sick and wounded of the army, shall here-
7 after be allowed and paid the same amount of salary allowed
8 and paid to clerks in other departments of the government:
9 Provided, That such persons, when employed' as clerks in hos-
10 pitals, may accept, in lieu of the above compensation, the pay
11 and allowances herein after granted to chief matrons of hos-
12 pitals.
IS 2d. All females employed as chief matrons, or assistant ma-
14 trons, or ward matrons, or nurses in hospitals, shall hereafter be
15 allowed and paid one hundred per cent, in addition to the com-
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16 pensation now allowed by law for their services; and in all
17 cases where suitable quarters and fuel are not furnished by the
18 surgeon in charge of the hospital, they shall be allowed and
19 paid commutation for the same, at the rate of one room for
20 each matron or nurse, and one and one-half cords of wood per
21 month during winter, and three-fourths of a cord per month
22 during summer.
23 3d. All females engaged or employed in the clothing branch
24 of the Quartermaster's Department, in cutting or making cloth-
25 ing or other articles for the use of the army, shall be allowed
26 and paid one hundred and twenty-five per cent, in addition to
27 the compensation now allowed for such labor or service.
28 4th. All females engaged or employed in making or preparing
29 cartridges or other munitions of war in the Ordnance Depart-
30 merit, shall hereafter be allowed and paid seventy-five per cent.
31 in addition to the compensation now allowed for such labor or
32 service, and shall have the privilege of purchasing from the
33 supply store of the Ordnance Department, at cost price to the
34 government, one rat ion each for their own use: And provided
35 such female shall be the mother or head of a family of one or
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36 more persons dependent upon her for support, she shall also
37 have the right to purchase, upon the terms above stated, one
38 additional ration for each member of her family of the charac-
39 ter above named, and one cord of wood per month during win-
40 ter, and one-half cord per month during summer, as fuel for
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41 each family: Provided further, That it shall be the duty of the
42 General Superintendent of the Laboratory to see that the bene-
43 fits of this act, as contained in the proviso last above named, are
44 extended only to such persons as are specially embraced within
45 its provisions.
46 5th. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required,
47 under such regulations as he may prescribe, in the event the
48 same can be furnished without prejudice to the public service,
49 to allow the persons embraced within the second, third and
50 fourth paragraphs of this act, to purchase, at cost price to the
51 government, such quantity of domestic cloth or cotton goods as
52 may be necessary for clothing for themselves, and those of their
53 family who may be dependent upon them for support; and in
54 the event the same can be furnished, shall also allow'the per-
55 sons named in the third paragraph of this act, to purchase for
56 the use of themselves one cord of wood per month during
57 winter, and one-half cord per month during summer, for each
58 family.