ficer is detached to serve as brigade-major or aid, or major, aid, &c. 1- to retain their rank. jor generals, and gadier generals. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the major- Pay, &c. of magenerals, respectively, shall be entitled to two hundred their aids; and dollars monthly pay, with twenty dollars allowance for a fals forage, monthly, and fifteen rations per day. Their aid-de-camp shall, each, be entitled to twenty-four dollars monthly, in addition to their pay in the line, and ten dollars monthly for forage, and four rations. The brigadier-generals, respectively, shall be entitled to one hundred and four dollars monthly pay, twelve rations per day, and sixteen dollars per month for forage, when not found by the public. cadets, privares, the like pay, ra as officers, pri corps, establishment. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all other offi- Other officers, cers, cadets, non-commissioned officers, musicians, ar- &c. to receive tificers, and privates, authorized by this act, shall re- tons, forage, &c. ceive the like pay, forage, rations, clothing, and other emoluments, as the officers of the same grade and cadets, non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates, of the present military establishment. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That each ration Component parts shall consist of one pound and a quarter of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whiskey, or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles, to every hundred rations. &c. of the ration. ed officers, pri fantry, to receive, ticles of uniform SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That every non-Non commissioncommissioned officer, musician. and private, of the ar- vates, &c. of the tillery and infantry, shall receive, annually, the follow- artillery and ining articles of uniform clothing, to wit: one hat, one annually, the ar coat, one vest, two pair of woolien, and two pair of linen, clothing specified, overalls, one coarse linen frock and trowsers, for fatigue clothing, four pair of shoes, four shirts, two pair of socks, two pair of short stockings, one blanket, one stock and clasp, and one pair of half gaiters: And the secretary of war is hereby authorized to cause to be The secretary of furnished to the paymasters of the respective districts, paymasters to be such surplus of clothing as he may deem expedient, surplus clothing, which clothing shall, under his direction, be furnished. at contract prices, to the soldiers, when necessary, at the contract prices, and accounted for by them out of their arrears of monthly pay. War to cause the furnished with for the soldiers, &c. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the officers. The officers, and non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, of soldiers to be of war, &c. governed by the the said corps, shall be governed by the rules and artiFules and articles cles of war, which have been established by the United States in congress assembled, or by such rules and articles as may be hereafter, by law, established. ficers employed two dollars for able bodied man gulation respect extend to musi SEC. 11 And be it further enacted, That the commisCommissioned of sioned officers who shall be employed in the recruiting in eruitag, en- service, shall be entitled to receive, for every effective titled to receive able bodied man who shall be duly enlisted by him, for every effective the term of five years, and mustered, (and between the duly enlisted, &c. ages of eighteen and forty-five years) the sum of two Proviso; the re-dollars: Provided, nevertheless, That this regulation so mg age, not to far as respects the age of the recruit, shall not extend cians. &e to musicians, or to those soldiers who may re-enlist into Proviso; persons the service: And provided also, That no person under 21, not to be en- the age of twenty-one years shall be enlisted by any oflisted, &c. with- ficer, or held in the service of the United States, without consent of the the consent, in writing, of his parent, guardian, or master, first bad and obtained, if any he have; and if any officer shall enlist any person contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, for every such offence he shall persons contrary forfeit and pay the amount of the bounty and clothing pay the amount which the person so recruited may have received from the public, to be deducted out of the pay and emolu under the age of out the written parent, &c. Officers enlisting to this aet, to of the bounty and clothing, &c. $16 bounty to each recruit. to be deferred, until, &c. When any non officer or soldier certificate from ments of such officer SEC. 12 And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed and paid to each effective able bodied man, recruited as aforesaid, to serve for the term of five The payment of years, a bounty of sixteen dollars; but the payment of gs of the bounty eight dollars of the said bounty shall be deferred until he shall be mustered, and have joined some military corps of the United States for service. And whenever commissioned any non-commissioned officer, or soldier, shall be disis discharged, and charged from the service, who shall have obtained from bas obtained a the commanding officer of his company, battalion, or the commanding regiment, a certificate that he had faithfully performed had performed his duty whilst in service, he shall, moreover, be alhis duty, he is to lowed and paid, in addition to the said bounty, three addition, three month's pay, and one hundred and sixty acres of land;* 160 acres of land; and the heirs and representatives of those non-commishis being killed sioned officers or soldiers who may be killed in action, or dying, &c. the heirs and repreor die in the service of the United States, shall likewise sentatives are to be paid and allowed the said additional bounty of three ditional bounty; months' pay, and one hundred and sixty acres of land; nated, surveyed, to be designated, surveyed, and laid off, at the public &e. at the pub expense, in such manner, and upon such terms and conditions, as may be provided by law. officer, that he be allowed, in months' pay and and, in case of receive the ad to be lic expense. *The land bounty increased to 320 acres, to all subsequent enlistments, by act of 10th December, 1814, chapter 92, section 4 not to exceed two SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the said Arrears of pay corps shall be paid in such manner, that the arrears months, unless, shall, at no time, exceed two months, unless the circumstances of the case shall render it unavoidable. &c. diers disabled by vice, to be placed valid pensioners, &c. wounds, &c. a cossioned officer, not to ex mothy pay, &c. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That if any officer, Officers and solnon-commissioned officer, musician, or private, shall be wounds, in ser disabled by wounds, or otherwise, while in the line of on the list of inhis duty in public service, he shall be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of p‹usion. Proviso; the comand under such regulations, as are or may be directed by law: Provided always, That the compensation to be allowed for such wounds or disabilities, to a commis ered half his sioned officer, shall not exceed, for the highest rate of and no officer to disability, half the monthly pay of such officer, at the hair the pay of a time of his being disabled or wounded; and that no offi- heutenant colon. cer shall receive more than the half pay of a lieutenant- The rate of pencolonel; and that the rate of compensation to non-com- missionedofficers, missioned officers, musicians, and privates, shall not privates, &c. not exceed five dollars per month: And provided also, That month. all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so aisa- disabilities to enbled to receive an allowance proportionate to the hhest the person disability. receive more than el. sions to non-com to exceed 85 per Proviso; inferior to a proportional allowance. missioned officers received in actual half the monthly pay to which the deceased was enned, &c. for SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That if any com- Widows and missioned officer in the military establishment of the hom United States shall, while in the service of the United dyng of wounds States, die by reason of any wound received in actual service, to receive service of the United States, and leave a widow, or if no widow, a child or children, under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, five years, shall be entitled to and receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years. But in case of, the death or intermarriage of such widow before the ex-dow marnes be piration of the said term of five years, the half pay for tion of five years, the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer: Provided always, That dren. such half pay shall cease on the decease of such child or children. In case the wifore the expira• the hait pay is to go to the chil vates, &c. de vice, inable, in alues, &c. to SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That if any non-com- Non-commissionmissioned officer, musician, or private, shall desert the ed officers, priservice of the United States, he shall, in addition to the serting the ser penalties mentioned in the rules and articies of war, be addition to penliable to serve for and during such a period as shall, serve the full with the time he may have served previous to his deser- term; and may be tried by a court tion, amount to the tuli term of his enlistment; and such martial and punished, although, soldier shall and may be tried by a court-martial, and e punished, although the term of his enlistment may have clapsed previous to his being apprehended or tried. desert, chasing their arms, uniform Commanders of on board soldiers, SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That every perPersons, &c. en-Son not subject to the rules and articles of war, who door purs shall procure or entice a soldier in the service of the United States to desert; or who shall purchase from any clothing, &c. and soldier his arms, uniform clothing, or any part thereof; Vessels receiving and every captain or commanding officer of any ship or Knowing them to vessel, who shall enter on board such ship or vessel, as he deserters, &c. one of his crew, knowing him to have deserted, or otherwise carry away, any such soldier, or shall refuse to deliver him up, to the orders of his commanding offcer, shall, upon legal conviction, be fined at the discretion of any court having cognizance of the same, in any sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, and be imprisoned any term not exceeding one year. liable to a fine not exeeding prisonment not 300 and to im exceeding one year. diers to take and SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That every offiOfficers, and sol- cer, non-commissioned officer, musician, and private, subscribe an oath. shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation, to wit: "I, A B, do solemnly swear, or affirm, (as the case may be) that I will bear true faith and allegiance Form of the oath to the United States of America, and that I will serve them, honestly and faithfully, against their enemies or opposers whomsoever; and that I will observe and obey the orders of the president of the United States, and the orders of the oj officers appointeu over me, according to the rules and articles of war." SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That there shall A judge advocate be appointed to each division a judge advocate, who to each division, shall be entitled to the same pay and emoluments as a of a major in the major in the infantry; or, if taken from the line of the with the pay and emolients infantry, &c. Commissioned officers obliged expense in travel. army, shall be entitled to thirty dollars per month in SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That where any commissioned officer shall be obliged to incur any extra to meur extra expense in travelling and sitting on general courts-marfing and sitting tial, he shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for on general courts such extra expense, actually incurred, not exceeding one lowed a reasona- dollar and twenty-five cents per day to officers who are not exceeding, not entitled to forage, and not exceeding one dollar per day to such as shall be entitled to forage. martial, to be al blecompensation; &c. soldiers, &c. dur service, to be ar No non-commis- SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, I hat no non-comsioned officer, or missioned officer, musician, or private, during the term ing his term of of his service, shall be arrested on mesne process, or rested, &c. for taken or charged in execution for any debt or debts con820 contracted tracted before enlistment, which were, severally, under beforeenlistment, twenty dollars at the time of contracting the same, nor contracted after- for any debt whatever contracted aiter enlistment. any debt under nor for any debt wards. or soldier is dis be allowed his SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That whenever When an officer any officer or sollier shall be discharged from the ser- charged, &c. exvice, excent by way of punishment for any offence, he cept, &c. he is to shall be allowed his pay and rations, or an equivalent pay and rations, in money, for such term of time as shall be sufficient of residence, at for him to travel from the place of discharge to the miles a day. place of his residence, computing at the rate of twenty miles to a day. &c. to his place the rate of 20 the officers of the SEC. 23. And be it further enacted, That the subsis- Subsistence of tence of the officers of the army, when not received in army, &c. esti. kind, shall be estimated at twenty cents per ration. mated at 20 cents per ration. One chaplain to with the pay, &e SEC. 24. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed to each brigade one chaplain, who shall be each brigade, entitled to the same pay and emoluments as a major in of a major, &c. the infantry. or staff officer, this act, to be en. SEC. 25. And be it further enacted, That no general. No general, field, field, or staff officer, who may be appointed by virtue of appointed under this act, shall be entitled to receive any pay or emolu- titled to pay, &c. ments until he shall be called into actual service, nor actual service, for any longer time than he shall continue therein. &c. [Approved, January 11, 1812.] until called into CHAPTER LXII. When, in the president, it is mount the light accoutre ments. are to be When the non An act supplementary to "An act to raise, for a limited time, an addi. tional military force," passed on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- opinion of the presentatives of the United States of America in Congress expedient to assembled, That whenever, in the opinion of the presi- artillery, horses dent of the United States, it is expedient to mount the light artillery, or any part thereof, horses and accoutre- provided, &c. ments shall be provided to equip the whole, or such part commissioned as he may direct; and when the non-commissioned offi- officers, privates, cers, musicians, artificers, and privates, are so equipped, ed, the officers to the officers shall be entitled to the same forage as is the same forage now provided for the officers of the same grade in the cas in the reregiment of light dragoons: Provided, The officers fur- dragoons. nish their own horses and accoutrements, and actually keep in service the same number of horses, to entitle them to the aforesaid allowance for forage, or its equi- them in service. valent in money. &c. are equipp be entitled to giment of light Proviso; the officers to furnish their own horses, &c and keep When the light SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever the said light artillery are ordered to be mounted, there artillery are or *See original act, chapter 54. |