Assistants adju Adjutants ge the line or not, &c. have the brevet rank, and the pay and emoluments, of a major of cavalry; and the assistant topographical engineers, and assistant deputy quartermasters-general, shall have the brevet rank, and the pay and emoluments, of a captain of infantry. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the assistant tants general,&c. adjutants-general, the assistant inspectors-general, and to be taken from the assistant topographical engineers, shall be taken the line. from the line. The adjutants-general, inspectors-general, quartermasters-general, deputy quartermastersnerals, &c. from general, topographical engineers, and assistant deputy quartermasters-general, may be taken from the line or not, as the president may deem expedient. And offired from the line cers taken from the line, and transferred to the staff, receive only the shall receive only the pay and emoluments attached to pay, &c. attach- the rank in the staff; but their transfer shall be without the start their prejudice to their rank and promotion in the line acwithout prejudice cording to their said rank and seniority; which promotion shall take place according to usage, in the same manner as if they had not been thus transferred. Officers transfer to the staff, to ed to the rank in transfer to be &c. The secretary of war to prepare gener. of the staff. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be authorized the duty of the secretary of the war department, and he al regulations, is hereby authorized, to prepare general regulations, prescribing the duties and powbetter defining and prescribing the respective duties ers of the officers and powers of the several officers in the adjutant-general, inspector-general, quartermaster-general, and commissary of ordnance, departments, of the topographical engineers, of the aids of generals, and generally of the general and regimental staff; which regulations, when The regulations, approved by the president of the United States, shall be c. to be respect respected and obeyed, until altered or revoked by the &c. and to be same authority. And the said general regulations, thus laid before con- prepared and approved, shall be laid before congress at when approved, ed and obeyed, gress. Assistant deputy their next session. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the number of commissaries of assistant deputy commissaries of ordnance shall not exordnance not to ceed sixteen, and that they shall, respectively, be entitled to the brevet rank, and to the pay and emoluments, of a first lieutenant of infantry. A physician and al salary of SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That, for the betsurgeon general, ter superintendence and management of the hospital and with an annu- medical establishment of the army of the United States, $2,500, and an there shall be a physician and surgeon-general, with an apothecary general, with the sa- annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, and lary of $1,800, &c. an apothecary-general, with an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars; whose respective duties and powers shall be prescribed by the president of the United States, master general, under direction, SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the forage, Each quarters and barrack, masters, shall be appointed as here- attached to any wagon, tofore: but each quartermaster-general, attached to any sparate army separate army, command, or district, shall be autho- &c. authorized rized, with the approbation, and under the direction, of ny foragemasters, the secretary of the war department, to appoint as many requires such officers, and to employ as many artificers, mechanics, and laborers, as the public service may require. to appoint as ma &c. as the service quartermasters SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the assistant Assistant deputy deputy quartermasters general may be appointed, and general, &c. may officers taken from the line and transferred to the staff be appointed by the president may be thus transferred, by the president of the United alone; but, &c. States alone. But all other new appointments authorized by this act shall be made by the president of the Proviso; during United States, with the advice and consent of the se-pointments inay nate: Provided, That, during the recess of the senate, be made by the such appointments may be made by the president alone; &c. in which case the same shall be laid before the senate at their next session, for their advice and consent. the recess, ap president alone, Acts, and parts SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That every act, of acts within the and every part of any act, of congress, now in force, perview of this act, repealed. within the purview and meaning of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. kets to and from inspector general, SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That all letters Letters and pac and packets to and from the adjutant and inspector-ge- the adjutant and neral, adjutants-general, inspectors-general, quarter-free of postmasters-general, commissary-general of ordnance, phy- age. sician and surgeon-general, and apothecary-general which relate to their official duties, shall be free from postage. point any of the ed by the act an additional eral officers, in SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the president. The president of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to pro ap appoint any of the officers authorized by an act, enti- officers authorize tled "An act making provision for an additional num-making provision ber of general officers,"* passed the twenty-fifth day of number of genFebruary, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the recess, &c. during the recess of the senate, to be submitted to the senate at their next session for their advice and consent; No officer apand that no officer appointed, or who may be appointed, pointed. &c. enby virtue of the aforesaid act, shall be entitled to re- till called into actual service, ceive any pay or emolument until he shall be called into &c. actual service, nor for any longer time than he shall be continued therein. [Approved, March 3, 1813.] titled to any pay, *See chapter 78. The president requested to cause to be pre CHAPTER LXXXI. Resolution requesting the president of the United States to cause to be prepared and laid before congress a system of military discipline. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That pared and laid the president of the United States be, and he is hereby, system of requested to cause to be prepared and laid before conpline for the in- gress, as soon as practicable, a military system of disfantry of the army and militia, cipline for the infantry of the army and militia of the United States. [Approved, March 3, 1813.] before congress, a military disci &c. ments authorized tioned, may be war, &c. and be CHAPTER LXXXII. An act to amend the "Act in addition to the act, entitled "An act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes.' SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ReFive of the regi- presentatives of the United States of America in Congress by the act men assembled, That five of the regiments which were auenlisted for the thorized to be raised by "An act in addition to the act, limited to the de- entitled "An act to raise an additional military force, fence of the sea and for other purposes," passed the twenty ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, may, at the discretion of the president of the United States, be enlisted for and during the war, unless sooner discharged, and be limited. as to service, to the defence of the seaboard of the United States, or of such part thereof as the president may elect and determine. board, &c. Each man recruited under this act, allowed &c. as men en SEC. 2. And be it further enacted That each man recruited under the authority of this art, be allowed the same bounty, in money and land, as is allowed by law to the same bounty, men enlisted for five years, or for the war; and that the listed for 5 years. officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, shall receive the same pay, clothing, subsistence, die's placed on the and forage, be entitled to the same benefits, be subject to same footing as other regular the same rules and regulations, and be placed, in every troops. respect, on the same footing, as the other regular troops of the United States. [Approved, July 5, 1813.] Officers and sol CHAPTER LXXXIII. An act to regulate the allowance of forage to officers in the army of the United States.t SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ReOfficers entitled presentatives of the United States of America in Congress to forage, to re *See original act, chapter 61, and additional act, chapter 77, with the notes thereon. This act was superseded by that of 3d March, 1815, chapter 95, which adopted, in every respect, the provisions of chapters 46 and 54, in regard to allowances. The provisions of this act were, however, again established by act of 24th April, 1816-See chapter 98, section 12. an equivalent in money. at the month for each assembled, That all officers in the military service of ceive, in lieu,&e. the United States, who are by law entitled to forage. shall receive in lieu thereof, when not drawn in kind, an rate of 88 per equivalent in money, at the rate of eight dollars per hos month for each horse to which they may be entitled: Proviso; no alProvided, That no allowance shall be made to any off lowance for more cer for more horses than he shall actually employ in the actually employ. public service. [Approved, July 22, 1813.] ed. horses than are CHAPTER LXXXIV. An act to authorise the appointment, by the president, of certain officers during the recess of the senate. of the five regiments authorized by the acts men during the ses SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- The president presentatives of the United States of America in Congress authorized to ap assembled, That it shall be lawful for the president of cess, such officers the United States, in the recess of the senate, to appoint such of the officers of the five regiments, authorized by toned, as may the act, entitled "An act in addition to the act, entitled not be appointed 'An act to raise an additional military force, and for sion, &c. other purposes, "* and the act supplementary thereto, passed the fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, as may not be appointed during the pre- The appoint sent session, which appointments shall be submitted to ments to be subthe senate at their next session, for their advice and consent. [Approved, August 2, 1813.] mitted, &c. CHAPTER LXXXV. An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act for the better regulation of the ordnance.† five additional de puty commisaries be appointed. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- Not exceeding presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in addition to the present number al- of ordnance may lowed by law, as many deputy commissaries of ordnance may be appointed, not exceeding five, as the president of the United States shall deem necessary to the public service; who shall be entitled to the same rank, pay, Their rank, pay, emoluments, rations, and forage, as are provided by the act to which this is a supplement. *See chapters 77 and 82. [Approved, August 2, 1813.] +See original act, chapter 69, with the note thereto. &c. Each effective, 1st Feb 1814, &e in lieu of the months' pay at service. 850 to be paid at the time of enHstment, &c. CHAPTER LXXXVI. An act making further provision for filling the ranks of the regular army, encouraging enlistments, and authorizing the re-enlistments, for longer periods, of men whose term of service are about to expire.* SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reable bodied man, presentatives of the United States of America in Congress enlisted after the assembled, That, in order to complete the present milito receive $124 tary establishment to the full number authorized by law bounty in money with the greatest possible despatch, there shall be paid, and the three to each effective able bodied man who shall, after the the end of the first day of February next, be enlisted into the army of the United States, to serve for the term of five years, or during the war, at his election, in lieu of the bounty in money and of the three months' pay at the expiration of the service now allowed by law, the sum of one hundred and twenty-four dollars; fifty dollars of which to be paid at the time the recruit is enlisted, fifty dollars when he shall be mustered and have joined some military corps for service, and twenty-four dollars when he shall be discharged from service; and the wife and children, and, if he leave no wife or children, the paThe wife and rents of such non-commissioned officer and soldier, enparents if the listed as hereinbefore stated, who may be killed in acin aion, &e. to tion, or die in the service of the United States, shall be be allowed 824. allowed and paid the sum of twenty-four dollars; and After the 1st of after the said first day of February next, so much of the February 1814, fourth section of the art, entitled "An act for the more section of the act perfect organization of the army of the United States," allows an advance passed the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight of g24, &c. re-hundred and thirteen, as allows to each able bodied man enlisted into the service of the United States, in the manner therein stated, an advance of twenty-four dollars on account of his pay, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. children. or the recruit be killed so much of 4th mentioned, as pealed. 88 to be paid to tizen who pro SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of any soldier or ci- eight dollars shall be paid to any non-commissioned ofcures an able bo- ficer, soldier, or citizen, who shall, after the first day died man to be of February next, furnish and procure to be enlisted, according to law, an able bodied man, to serve for the term of five years, or during the war. enlisted, &c. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every nonNon-commission-commissioned officer, musician, and private, who has ed officers, pri- been recruited in the regular army of the United States, *This act is superseded by that of 3d March, 1815, chapter 95, except so far as would affect the rights vested by the 1st section. †See chapter 76. |