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incident to the collection of said claims except the expense of the necessary affidavits and notarial or other acknowledgements, which shall be defrayed by the claimant; and any agent or attorney who shall charge, directly or indirectly, in any case, a greater sum for his services in preparing and prosecuting said claims and collecting and remitting the amount due, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding three thousand nor less than one thousand dollars, and shall be forever excluded from prosecuting military or naval claims against the government.

SEC. 3. And be it further resolved, That in case the payments shall be made in the form of a check, order, or draft upon any paymaster, national bank, or government depository, it shall be necessary for the claimant to establish, by the affidavits of two credible witnesses, that he is the identical person named therein; but in no case shall such checks, orders, or drafts be made negotiable until after such identification.

SEC. 4. And be it further resolved, That it shall not be lawful for any soldier to transfer, assign, barter, or sell his discharge, for the purpose of transferring, assigning, bartering, or selling any interest in any bounty under the provisions of said Resolutions and all such transfers, assignments, barters, or sales heretofore made are hereby declared null and void as to any rights intended so to be conveyed by any such soldier.

Approved, July 26, 1866.
     
IV... {PUBLIC-No. 129.]

AN ACT to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, 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 following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

To enable the Secretary of War to make the pay of the persons employed at any time during the last fiscal year as temporary clerks

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