shall be subject to military law, except the commissaries. deputy- subject to mili tary law, except, &c. quartermaster sary general, &c. SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That the presi- The president dent may, and hereby is, authorized, in the recess of may appoint the the senate, to appoint the quartermaster-general, de- general, commisputy-quartermasters, commissary general, and deputy- in the recess, &c. commissaries, or any of them; which appointments shall at the next ses be submitted to the senate at their next session, for sion, &c. their advice and consent. [Approved, March 28, 1812.] CHAPTER LXV. An act in addition to the act, entitled "An act to raise an additional military force," passed January the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.* to be submitted The president term of eighteen &c. such part of SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress of the United assembled, That the president of the United States be, Sates me wo be and he hereby is, empowered to cause to be enlisted, for enlisted, for the the term of eighteen months, unless sooner discharged, months, unless, such part of the light dragoons, artillery, and infantry, the light draauthorized by the act, entitled "An act to raise an ad- goons, artillery, ditional military force," as he may deem expedient: by the act menProvided, The whole number, so to be enlisted for Proviso; the eighteen months, shall not exceed fifteen thousand, any be enlisted for thing in the said recited act to the contrary notwith- 18 months not to standing. &c. authorized tioned. whole number to exceed 15,000, &c. bounty of g16, &c. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the non-commis- The non-com. sioned officers, musicians, and privates, so to be enlisted, missionedofficers, privates, &e to shall be entitled to the bounty of sixteen dollars, and be entitled to the the same pay, clothing, and rations, the same provisions &e except the for wounds or disabilities, and to all other allowances, bounty in land, (the bounty in land excepted,) provided by the said befure recited act, for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, who may be raised under the same, and shall be held to perform the same duties, and be subject to the same rules and regulations. [Approved, April 8, 1812.] CHAPTER LXVI. An act for the organization of a corps of artificers.† tached to the SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-A corps of ar presentatives of the United States of America in Congress tificers to be at *See original act, chapter 61, with the note thereon. †Superseded by act of 3d March, 1815, chapter 95. ment, &c. Organization of tificers. quartermaster assembled, That there shall be attached to the quartergeneral's depart- master-general's department, and subject to the orders of the officers thereof, a corps of artificers, to consist of the corps of a one superintendent, to be appointed by the president of the United States, four assistants, two master-masons, two master-carpenters, two master-blacksmiths, two master-boat-builders, two master-armorers, two master saddle and harness-makers, twenty house-carpenters, five ship-carpenters, twenty blacksmiths, sixteen boatbuilders, sixteen armorers, twelve saddle and harnessmakers, and twenty-four laborers, to be selected from the privates of the army, when authorized thereto by the commanding general, or engaged from among the citizens by the superintendent. Pay, &c. of the superintendent sistants, &c. of artificers, as dent to report the quartermas SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pay of the superintendent of artificers shall be forty-five dollars per month, three rations per day, and forage for one horse; that the pay of the four assistants be, each, thirty dollars per month, and two rations per day; that the pay of the twelve master-workmen be, each, thirty dollars per month, and one ration and one half of a ration per day; that the pay of the other workmen be, each, sixteen dollars per month, and one ration and one half of a ration per day. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the The superinten- duty of the superintendent of artificers to render a coronce a month, to rect report, once each month, of the corps, to the quarter general,make termaster-general, and on oath to make out the pay roll on oath, &c. exe thereof; which pay roll shall be examined by the quargute all orders, termaster-general, or, in his absence, by one of the de out the pay roll &c. puty-quartermasters, and by him be countersigned; and SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this corps The corps to be shall be engaged for and during the term of three years, years, unless, &c. unless sooner discharged by the president of the United engaged for three de pense that may States. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, for defraying printed for the expense that may be incurred in the execution of fraying the ex- this act, the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the be incurred un- same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, April 23, 1812.] der this act, &c. CHAPTER LXVII. An act making further provision for the corps of engineers.* Officers to be corps of engi neers. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress added to the assembled, That there be added to the corps of engi neers two captains, two first lieutenants, two second lieutenants, with the usual pay and emoluments, according to their grades, respectively, and one paymaster, to be taken from the subalterns of engineers, with the pay and emoluments of a regimental paymaster; and that there be attached to the said corps, either from the troops now in service, or by new enlistments, as the president of the United States may direct, four sergeants, four corporals, one teacher of music, four musicians, nineteen artificers, and sixty-two men, which non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and men, together with the artificers and men already belonging to bombardiers sapthe corps of engineers, shall be formed into a company, to be formed, to to be styled a company of bombardiers, sappers, and mi-be officered from ners, and be officered from the corps of engineers, ac- gineers, &c. cording as the commanding officer of that corps may, with the approbation of the president of the United States, di- Non-commission. rect; and the said non-commissioned officers, musicians, ed officers, artifiartificers, and men, shall be allowed the same pay and cers, &c. allowed emoluments as are allowed to the noncommissioned as in the regi officers, musicians, artificers, and men, in the regiment ists. of artillerists. A company of pers, and miners, the corps of en the same pay &e. ment of artiller academy to con of engineers. French and fessor of with assistant Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the military The military academy shall consist of the corps of engineers, and the sist of the corps following professors, in addition to the teachers of the and, in addition French language and drawing already provided, viz: to the teachers of one professor of natural and experimental philosophy, drawing of a prowith the pay and emoluments of lieutenant-colonel, if and experimental philosophy, a pronot an officer of the corps, and, if taken from the corps, fessor of mathematics, a profesthen so much in addition to his pay and emoluments as sor of the art of shall equal those of a lieutenant-colonel; one professor engineering of mathematics, with the pay and emoluments of a professors, &c, major, if not an officer of the corps, and, if taken from the corps, then so much in addition to his pay and emoluments as shall equal those of a major; one professor of the art of engineering in all its branches, with the pay and emoluments of a major, if not an officer of the corps, and, if taken from the corps, then so much in addition to his pay and emoluments as shall equal those of a major; each of the foregoing professors to have an as *See act of 16th of March, 1802, chapter 46, section 26, &c, herein to entitle The cadets not to exceed 250. sistant professor, which assistant professor shall be taken from the most prominent characters of the officers or cadets, and receive the pay and emoluments of Proviso; nothing captains, and no other pay or emoluments, while perthe academical forming these duties: Provided, That nothing herein staff to any command in the ar- contained shall entitle the academical staff, as such, to my, separate, &c. any command in the army separate from the academy. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the cadets, heretofore appointed in the service of the United States, whether of artillery, cavalry, riflemen, or infantry, or that may in future be appointed as hereinafter provided, shall at no time exceed two hundred and fifty: that they may be attached, at the discretion of the president of the United States, as students to the military academy, and be subject to the established regulations thereof; that they shall be arranged into companies of non-commisRegulations, con- sioned officers and privates, according to the directions ganization, dis of the commandant of engineers, and be officered from the said corps, for the purposes of military instruction; and term of ser- that there shall be added to each company of cadets four musicians; and the said corps shall be trained and taught all the duties of a private, non-commissioned officer and officer; be encamped at least three months of each year, and taught all the duties incident to a regular camp; that the candidates for cadets be not under the age of fourteen, nor above the age of twenty-one years; that each cadet, previously to his appointment by the president of the United States, shall be well versed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and that he shall sign articles, with the consent of his parent or guardian, by which he shall engage to serve five years, unless sooner discharged; and all such cadets shall be entitled to and receive the pay and emoluments now allowed by law to cadets in the corps of engineers. cerning the or cipline, age, qualifications, vice, of cadets. When a cadet lar degree, &c. dered as among for a commission, there is no vacan SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That when any receives a regu- cadet shall receive a regular degree from the academi-, he is to be consi-cal staff, after going through all the classes, he shall be the candidates considered as among the candidates for a commission in &a. and when any corps, according to the duties he may be judged ey in a corps, he competent to perform; and in case there shall not, at the may be attached time, be a vacancy in such corps, he may be attached mevary officer, to it at the discretion of the president of the United States, by brevet of the lowest grade, as a supernume rary officer, with the usual pay and emoluments of such grade, until a vacancy shall happen: Provided, That than one super there shall not be more than one supernumerary officerto any one company at the same time. to it as a supernu &c. Proviso; not more numerary officer to one company. ated for erecting Library, &c. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of g25.000 appropri twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, building provid appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the trea-ing apparatus, a sury, not otherwise appropriated, for erecting buildings, and for providing an apparatus, a library, and all necessary implements, and for such contingent expenses as may be necessary and proper, in the judgment of the president of the United States, for such an institution. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of so much of the the twenty-sixth section of the act, entitled "An act the act fixing the fixing the military peace establishment," passed the six-military peace teenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and confines two, as confines the selection of the commander of the commander, &c. to the corps of corps of engineers to the said corps, be, and the same is engineers, rew hereby repealed, [Approved, April 29, 1812.] CHAPTER LXVIII. An act to provide for designating, surveying, and granting, the military bounty lands. 26th section of establishin it as he se lection of the pealed, cause to be sur acres of public 2,000,000 in each of Michigan, Lilis ana. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- The president to presentatives of the United States of America in Congress veyed not exceed. assembled. That the president of the United States be, ing 6,000,000 of and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be surveyed a land, &c. quantity of the public lands of the United States, fit for cultivation, not otherwise appropriated, and to which the Indian title is extinguished, not exceeding, in the whole, six millions of acres; two millions to be surveyed in the territory of Michigan,* two millions in the Illinois of the territories territory, north of the Illinois river, and two millions in nois, and Louis the territory of Louisiana, between the river St. Francis and the river Arkansas; the said lands to be divided into townships, and subdivided into sections and quarter sections, (each quarter section to contain, as near as possible, one hundred and sixty acres,) in the manner prescribed by law for surveying and subdividing the other public lands of the United States, the same price to be allowed for surveying as is fixed for surveying the The lands surother public lands in the same territory. And the lands veyed, with the thus surveyed, with the exception of the salt springs mentioned, and lead mines therein, and of the quantities of land ad- for satisfying the jacent thereto, as may be reserved for the use of the bounties of 160 same by the president of the United States, and the sec- non-commissiontion number sixteen in every township, to be granted to soldiers the inhabitants of such township for the use of public *See chapter 102, exceptions to be set apart acres promised to ed officers, and |