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V..[PUBLIC-No. 23.]
AN ACT to fix the pay of the Quartermaster Sergeant of the battalion of Engineers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, the pay and allowances of the Quartermaster Sergeant of the battalion of Engineers of the Army of the United States shall be the same as those allowed by the law to the Sergeant-major of that battalion.
Approved, February 12, 1867. 

VI..[PUBLIC-No. 28.]
AN ACT to authorize the purchase of certain lots of ground adjoining the Allegheny Arsenal, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to accept the offer of the St. Franciscus Hospital Society to sell the United States certain lots of ground situate in the boro[ugh] of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, numbered one, two, three, and four, containing about nine thousand six hundred square feet, and upon which is a spring supplying said arsenal with water; and that the sum of three thousand eight hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay for said lots upon their conveyance to the United States by good and sufficient title in fee simple.
Approved, February 18, 1867. 

VII..[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No.13.]
JOINT RESOLUTION for the purchase of David's Island, New York Harbor.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase, for the government of the United States, David's Island, in Long Island Sound, at the sum of thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the lease of Simeon Leland, dated April