of the army or luments of a ma balterns of the army or citizens, and appointed by the from subalterns president of the United States: Provided also, That re- citizens. gimental and battalion pay masters shall receive the pay Provis; paymas and emoluments of major, and shall each be allowed a the pay and emocapable non-commissioned officer as clerk, who, while so jor, and allowed employed, shall receive double pay, and the actual ex- sioned officer as pense of transportation while travelling under orders in a clerk, &c. the discharge of his duty. a non-commis lar troops. general, once in SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be- Paymasters to the duty of the regimental and battalion paymasters to pay all the regupay all the regular troops; and, to insure punctuality and responsibility, correct reports shall be made to the pay- Correct reports master-general once in two months, showing the dispo-to the paymaster sition of the funds previously transmitted, with accurate two months, &c. estimates for the next payment of such regiment, garrison, or department, as may have been assigned to each; and whenever any paymaster shall fail to transmit such ing to transit estimate, or neglect to render his vouchers to the pay- lecting to ren master-general for settlement of his accounts, more than der vouchers, for six months after receiving funds, he shall be recalled, receiving funds, and another appointed in his place.* Paymasters fail estimates, or neg six months after are to be recalled, &c. to a deputy com division; six assis and military SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the pur-Purchasing de chasing department shall consist of one commissary-ge-Ponsist of a comneral of purchases, as heretofore authorized, with the missary-general; annual salary of three thousand dollars, and one deputy-missary to each commissary to each division, with the annual salary of tant commissa two thousand dollars, and six assistant commissaries of ries of issues; issues, with the annual salary of one thousand three storekeepers, hundred dollars; and as many military storekeepers as the service may require, whose salaries shall be regulated by the secretary of war, according to the duty they may perform: Provided, That the pay and emoluments shall not exceed that of a captain of infantry. pay, commissary, ter's depart SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all officers of Officers of the the pay, commissary, and quartermaster's department, and quartermas shall, previous to their entering on the duties of their ments, to give respective offices, give good and sufficient bonds to the bonds. United States, fully to account for all moneys and public property which they may receive, in such sums as the secretary of war shall direct. And all paymasters, Paymasters, commissaries, and storekeepers, shall be subject to the and storekeepers, rules and articles of war, in the same manner as com- rules and arti subject to the missioned officers: Provided also, That all officers of the pay and commissary's departments be submitted to of the pay and the senate for their confirmation, in the same manner as partments, to be the officers of the army. commissaries, cles of war. Proviso; officers commissary's de submitted to the senate. *See chapter 125, sections 2 and 8. The president to prescribe the quantity and Proviso; when authorized tity of clothing is SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the president of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to kind of clothing. prescribe the quantity and kind of clothing, to be issued more than the annually to the troops of the United States. Provided, quan- That whenever more than the authorized quantity is rerequired, the va quired, the value of the extra articles shall be deducted ducted from the from the soldiers' pay; and, in like manner, the soldiers shall receive pay according to the annual estimated value for such authorized articles of uniform as shall not have Proviso; the man- been issued to him in each year. Provided also, That clothing, &c. to the manner of issuing and accounting for clothing, shall general regula" be established in the general regulations of the war de lue is to be de soldiers' pay, &c. ner of issuing be established in tions. has been dis charged, and there is clothing due to him, the partment. Where a soldier SEC. 8. And be it further enacted. That in all cases where a soldier of the regular army shall have been discharged from the service of the United States, and paymaster-gene clothing shall be due to said soldier, it shall be the duty of the paymaster-general to cause the same to be paid for, according to the price paid in the seventh section of this act. ral is to cause it to be paid for. Officers of the ceive pay and to retain privi to act of 3d SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the several staff are to re officers of the staff shall, respectively, receive the pay emoluments, and and emoluments, and retain all the privileges, secured Jeges, according to the staff of the army, by the act of March third, one March, 1813, &c. thousand eight hundred and thirteen,* and not incompatible with the provisions of this act: and that the reRegulations in gulations in force before the reduction of the army, be reduction of the recognized, as far as the same shall be found applicaarmy recognized; ble to the service; subject, however, to such alterations as the secretary of war may adopt, with the approbation of the president. force prior to the subject, &c. Officers of the in this act, to be SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the officers staff enumerated of the staff, provisionally retained by the president, and recognized in in this act enumerated and made permanent, be recogservice; and gar- nized in service under this act, and that the garrison and mates be hereafter considered as post surconsidered surgeons post Stuff from the geons; and hereafter the staff of the army may be taken line or citizens. from the line of the army, or from citizens. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the ordnance ment continued, department be continued, as at present organized under the act of February eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and that ordnance officers be assigned to their duties with the staff of the army, in the same manner as from the corps of engineers. Ordnance offi cers to be assign ed to duties with the staff; &c. SEC, 12. And be it further enacted, That when forage is not drawn in kind by officers of the army entitled *See chapter 80. month for fo horse. forage nor mo horses actually in company officers thereto, eight dollars per month, for each horse, not ex- Eight dollars per ceeding the number authorized by existing regulations, rage when not shall be allowed in lieu thereof: Provided, That neither drawn, for each forage nor money shall be drawn by officers, but for Proviso; neither horses actually kept by them in service: Provided also, ney, except for That none, except company officers, shall be allowed to service. take as servants or waiters soldiers of the army; and Proviso; none but that all officers be allowed, for each private servant ac- to take soldiers tually kept in service, not exceeding the number authorized by existing regulations, the pay, rations, and Pay, rations, and clothing, of a private soldier, or money in lieu thereof, dier for each pri on a certificate, setting forth the name and description money in lieu, of the servant or servants, in the pay account: Provided & Proviso; an addi also, That one additional ration be allowed to all subal- tional ration to tern officers of the army. [Approved, April 24, 1816.] for servants. clothing, of a sol vate servant, or subalterns of the army. CHAPTER XCIX. An act to provide for cases of lost military land warrants, and discharges for faithful services. regular army warrants and lost of the fact to the SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- Soldiers of the presentatives of the United States of America in Congress having obtained assembled, That when any soldier of the regular army, them, &c. upon having obtained a military land warrant, shall have satisfactory proof lost, or shall hereafter lose, the same, or the said war- secretary of war, rant shall have been, or may be, by accident, destroyed, parents. every such soldier shall, upon proof thereof, to the satisfaction of the secretary of war, be entitled to a patent, in like manner as if the said warrant was produced. are entitled to to the satisfaction of war, that cer cases of dis litary service, misconstruction, SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases When it appears, of discharges from the military services of the United of the secretary States, of any soldier of the regular army, when it shall feats of faith. appear to the satisfaction of the secretary of war that a ful services, in certificate of faithful services has been omitted by the charge from mis neglect of the discharging officer, by misconstruction of have been omit the law, or by any other neglect or casualty, such omis-ed by neglect, sion shall not prevent the issuing of the warrant and pa- or casualty, the tent as in other cases. And when it shall be proved, as prevent the issuaforesaid, that any soldier of the regular army has lost and patents. his discharge and certificate of faithful service, the se- the loss of a discretary of war shall cause such papers to be furnished charge and certi such soldier of the regular army as will entitle him to tary of war is to his land warrant and patent: Provided, Such measure &c. be justified by the time of his enlistment, the period omission is not to ing of warrants Upon proof of ficate, the secre furnish papers, Proviso; if the measure be justi. fied by the time of service, and the report of some officer of the corps to of enlistment, which he was attached. [Approved, April 27, 1816.] &e. CHAPTER C. The sum of 200.000 for pro be paid out of mo sury, not other ated. An act concerning the annual sum appropriated for arming and equipping the militia.* SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reviding arms, &c. presentatives of the United States of America in Congress for the militia, to assembled, That the annual sum of two hundred thouneys in the trea- sand dollars, as appropriated for the purpose of prowise appropri viding arms and military equipments for the militia, either by purchase or manufacture, according to the act of the twenty-third of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, entitled "An act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States," shall be paid, for each year, repectively, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. The sum appro priated to be ap to the act of 23d to the surplus fund. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum applied according propriated, to be paid as aforesaid, shall be applied for April, 1866. with the purpose, and according to the intention, specified in out being carried said act, without being liable, at any time, to be carried to the account of the surplus fund. And nothing in the Nothing in the act of 3d March, act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred rize a transfer of and nine, entitled "An act further to amend the seveany portion of ral acts for the establishment and regulation of the treaother branch of sury, war, and navy, departments," shall be construed 1809, to autho the sum to any expenditure. and a ration per to the superin to authorize the transferring of the sum annually appropriated as aforesaid, or any portion thereof, to any other branch of expenditure. [Approved, April 29, 1816.] CHAPTER CI. An act to increase the compensation of the superintendents of the manufactories of arms at Springfield and Harper's Ferry. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re830 per month presentatives of the United States of America in Congress day, additional, assembled, That, in addition to the pay and rations, as tendents of ma at present fixed, of the superintendents of the manufacarms at Spring-tories of arms at Springfield and Harper's Ferry, they field and Har shall receive thirty dollars per month, and one ration per day. [Approved, April 29, 1816.] nufactories of per's Ferry, *See chapter 56, with the note thereon. CII. An act to authorize the survey of two millions of acres of the public lands, in lieu of that quantity heretofore authorized to be surveyed in the territory of Michigan, as military bounty lands. act of the 6th of veying 2,000,000 acres to be sur and 500,000 acres divided into SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- So much of the presentatives of the United States of America in Congress May, 1812, as assembled, That so much of the "Act to provide for de- provides for sur signating, surveying, and granting, the military bounty acres of military bounty lands in lands," approved the sixth day of May, one thousand Michigan, reeight hundred and twelve, as authorizes the president of pealed. the United States to cause to be surveyed two millions of acres of the lands of the United States in the territory of Michigan, for the purpose of satisfying the bounties of land promised to the non-commisioned officers and soldiers of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and in lieu of the said two millions of acres of land, the president of the United States be, and The president to he is hereby, authorized to cause to be surveyed, of the cause 1.500.000 lands of the United States fit for cultivation, not other- veyed in Illinois, wise appropriated, and to which the Indian title is extin- in Missouri. guished, one million five hundred thousand acres in the Illinois territory, and five hundred thousand acres in the Missouri territory, north of the river Missouri: the the said lands shall be divided into townships, and sub- The lands to be divided into sections and quarter sections, (each quar- townships, subditer section to contain, as near as possible, one hundred vided, &c. and sixty acres,) in the manner prescribed by law for surveying and subdividing the other lands of the United States; and the lands thus surveyed, with the exception The lands surof the salt springs and lead mines therein, and of the veyed, with ex quantities of land adjacent thereto, as may be reserved springs, lead for the use of the same by the president of the United reservations, to States, and the section number sixteen in every town- satisfying bounship, to be granted to the inhabitants of such township missioned officers for the use of public schools, shall, according to the pro- and soldiers, &c. visions of the above recited act, be set apart for the purpose of satisfying the bounties of land promised to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the late army of the United States, their heirs and legal representatives, by the act, entitled "An act for completing the existing military establishment, approved the twentyfourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and by the act, entitled "An act to raise an additional military force," approved the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. ception of salt mines, and other be set apart for ties to non-com |