Pay of Chaplains.
--The
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser says:
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Various papers having announced the passage, in the Senate of the last session of the Confederate Congress, of a bill making the pay of Chaplains one hundred dollars and rations, has given rise to the impression that the same had become a law.--The following, however, is official, from
Adjutant. General Cooper, in reply to an inquiry from a clergyman on the subject:
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‘"An Act to amend the several acts in relation to the pay of Chaplains in the Army."’
‘"Section 1.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact: That hereafter the pay of Chaplains in the army shall be eighty dollars per month, with rations, as now provided by law."’
‘"Approved April 19, 1862."’