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wounds received in the revolutionary war," passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pension and under such regulations as are provided by the said act, or as may hereafter be provided by law: Provided, always, That the compensation to be allowed for such wounds or disabilities, to a commissioned officer, shall not exceed for the highest rate of disability half the monthly pay of such officer at the time of his being wounded or disabled, and that no officer shall receive more than the half pay of a lieutenant-colonel; and that the rate of compensation to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, shall not exceed five dollars per month: And provided, also, That all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so disabled, to receive an allowance proportionate to the highest disability.

[Approved, August 2, 1813.]

April 16, 1816, ch. 55. See act July, 1862, "granting pensions."

CHAPTER 41.-Approved, August 2, 1813.-Vol. 3, p. 74.

An Act explanatory of an Act entitled "An Act to raise ten additional companies of rangers."

That each of the ten companies authorized by the act entitled "An act to raise ten additional companies of rangers" shall consist of one captain, one first, one second, one third lieutenant, one ensign, five sergeants, six corporals, and ninety privates.

CHAPTER 45.-Approved, August 2, 1813.-Vol. 3, p. 74.

An Act to authorize the appointment, by the President, of certain officers during the recess of the Senate.

That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, in the recess of the Senate, to appoint such of the officers of the five regiments, authorized by the act entitled An act in addition to the act entitled 'An act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes,' 4 and the act supplementary thereto, passed the 5th day of July, 1813,5 as may not be appointed during the present session, which appointments shall be submitted to the Senate at their next session, for their advice and consent.

1 Chap. 25, ante.

3 Chap. 31, 25 Feb. 1813.

2 Made $8 by act of 24 April, 1816.
4 Chap. 16, 29 Jan. 1813.

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Chap. 4.

CHAPTER 50.-Approved, August 2, 1813.-Vol. 3, p. 75.

An Act supplementary to the Act entitled "An Act for the better Regulation of the Ordnance."

That, in addition to the present number allowed 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, emoluments, rations, and forage, as are provided by the act to which this is a supplement.

CHAPTER 7.-Approved, January 27, 1814.-Vol. 3, p. 94.

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 terms of service are about to expire.1

That, in order to complete the present military establishment to the full number authorized by law, with the greatest possible despatch, there shall be paid, to each effective, able-bodied man who shall, after the 1st 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 $124; $50 of which to be paid at the time the recruit is enlisted, $50 when he shall be mustered and have joined some military corps for service, and $24 when he shall be discharged from service; and the wife and children, and, if he leave no wife or children, the parents, of such non-commissioned officer and soldier, enlisted as hereinbefore stated, who may be killed in action, or die in the service of the United States, shall be allowed and paid the sum of $24; and after the said 1st day of February next, so much of the fourth section of the act entitled "An act for the more perfect organization of the army of the United States," passed the 20th day of January, 1813, as allows to each able-bodied man enlisted into the service of the United States, in the manner therein stated, an advance of $24 on account of his pay, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

SEC. 2. That the sum of $8 shall be paid to any non-commissioned officer, soldier, or citizen who shall, after the 1st day 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.

SEC. 3. That every non-commissioned officer, musician, and private, who has been recruited in the regular army of the United States, under the authority of the act of the 8th of April, 1812, entitled "An act in addition to the act entitled 'An act to raise an additional military force, passed January 11th, 1812,'"' may be re-enlisted for the term of five years, or during the war; and that every non-commissioned officer, musician, and

1 See original act, 14 May, 1812, with the note thereto.

2 This act is superseded by that of 3 March, 1815, chap. 79, except so far as would affect the rights vested by the first section.

3 Chap. 12.

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Chap. 14.

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tional military force, and for other purposes,' may be re-enlisted for five years, or during the war.

SEC. 4. That the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, re-enlisted under the authority of the preceding section, shall be entitled to the bounty allowed by this act to recruits for five years, or for the war. [Approved, January 27, 1814.]

CHAPTER 9.-Approved, January 28, 1814.-Vol. 3, p. 96.

An Act authorizing the President of the United States to cause certain regiments therein mentioned to be enlisted for five years, or during the war.

That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to cause to be enlisted for the term of five years, or during the war, the fourteen regiments of infantry which are now by law authorized to be enlisted for the term of one year, or such number of them, or of the troops composing the same, as in his opinion will best promote the public service.

SEC. 2. That each man enlisted under the authority of this act shall be allowed the same bounty, in money and land, as is now by law allowed to men enlisted for five years or during the war; and that the officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates shall receive the same pay, clothing, subsistence, and forage, be entitled to the same benefits, be subject to the same rules and regulations, and be placed, in every respect, on the same footing, as the other regular troops of the United States.

CHAPTER 11.-Approved, February 10, 1814.-Vol. 3, p. 96.

An Act to raise three regiments of riflemen.2

That there be immediately raised such number of regiments of riflemen, not exceeding three, as, in the opinion of the President, will best promote the military service, to serve for five years, or during the war, unless sooner discharged.

SEC. 2. That each regiment shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenantcolonel, two majors, one adjutant, one paymaster, one quartermaster, one surgeon, one surgeon's mate, one sergeant-major, one quartermaster's sergeant, two principal musicians, and ten companies.

SEC. 3. That each company shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one third lieutenant, and one ensign, five sergeants, four corporals, two musicians, and ninety privates.

SEC. 4. That each man recruited under the authority of this act, to be allowed the same bounty, in land and money, as is allowed by law to men enlisted for five years, or during the war; and that the officers, non-com

1 Chap. 16.

2 Superseded by 3 March, 1815, chap. 79.

missioned officers, musicians, and privates shall receive the same pay, clothing, subsistence, and forage, be entitled to the same provisions for wounds or disabilities, the same benefits and allowances, and be placed, in every respect, on the same footing, as the other regular troops of the United States.

SEC. 5. That each company of the regiment of riflemen, authorized to be raised by the act of April 12, 1808, shall consist of ninety privates. [Approved, February 10, 1814.]

CHAPTER 37.-Approved, March 30, 1814.-Vol. 3, p. 113.

An Act for the better organizing, paying, and supplying the Army of the United States.

6. Pay of the officers of artillery. 9. Officers' waiters. 10. How mustered and paid. 12. Promotions, how. 14. Pay, &c., not affected by captivity. Not after parole. 18. Rations and pay of the medical staff. 19. Aids of major-general and brigadiers, &c., from what drawn. 20. District pay and quartermasters not from the line.

'That the first, second, and third regiments of artillery be formed into one corps, and organized into twelve battalions, as follows, to wit: six lieutenant-colonels, six majors, twelve adjutants, twelve quartermasters, and forty-eight companies.

SEC. 2.2 That each company shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, two second lieutenants, one third lieutenant, five sergeants, one quartermaster's sergeant, eight corporals, four musicians, and one hundred privates.

SEC. 3.3 That the President be authorized to assign one of the two second lieutenants hereby provided for each company, as a conductor of artillery for said company, whose duty it shall be to receipt and account for all ammunition, implements, and cannon furnished by the ordnance department for said company, and to do and perform such other services as the war department may direct; and that, for the performance of these services, they be allowed each $10 extra pay per month.

SEC. 4. That, in lieu of the two regiments of light dragoons now in service, there shall be organized one regiment, to consist of one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, two majors, one adjutant, one quartermaster, one surgeon, two surgeon's mates, one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, one principal musician, one principal farrier, and eight troops.

SEC. 5. That each troop shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one third lieutenant, one cornet, five sergeants, eight

1 This organization is continued by the 3 March, 1815, chap. 178, sec. 2; but see, as to privates, &c., the 23 Aug. 1842, chap. 186, and as to officers, the 20 April, 1818, chap. 102, sec. 1, and the 2 March, 1821, chap. 13, sec. 1. Organized into four regiments, by the 2 March, 1821, chap. 13, sec. 1.

2 This sec. (2) is supplied by the 2 March, 1821, chap. 13, sec. 1.

3 But one, by the 5 July, 1838, chap. 142, sec. 1, which seems to supply this provision as to conductors of artillery.

4 On the reorganization by the 2 March, 1821, chap. 13, sec. 1, there were to be no dragoons, but a regiment of dragoons was established by the 2 March, 1833, chap. 76.

corporals, one riding-master, one master of the sword, two trumpeters or buglers, one farrier, one blacksmith, one saddler, and ninety-six privates.

SEC. 6. That the officers of the corps of artillery, and the regiment of light artillery, shall severally receive the same pay as is now provided' by law for the light dragoons in the service of the United States; and the subalterns of all other corps shall be allowed one ration in addition to the pay authorized by existing laws.

SEC. 7.2 That there shall be allowed, annually, to each non-commissioned officer, musician, and private, in the corps of sea-fencibles, one blanket, one knapsack, and one canteen.

SEC. 8.3 That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to prescribe the quantity and kind of clothing to be issued annually to the troops of the United States.

SEC. 9. That, from and after the first day of June next, the officers of the army shall be entitled to waiters, agreeable to grade, as follows: a major-general, four waiters; a brigadiergeneral, three; a colonel, two; the physician and surgeon general, two; a lieutenant-colonel, major, and hospital surgeon, each, one; the officers of each company, three; every commissioned officer who holds a staff appointment which gives the rank of captain, or any higher grade, one; and to every company officer who commands a separate post or detachment, one; any law or regulation heretofore existing to the contrary, notwithstanding.

SEC. 10. That no officers shall be permitted to employ as a servant any soldier from the line of the army, and that the servants of officers, not exceeding the number allowed by the preceding section, shall be mustered with some corps of the army, and that on the muster rolls formed in consequence thereof, payments shall be made in money' to the officers employing them, in lieu of wages, subsistence, and clothing, by the paymasters of the several corps or districts where such servants are mustered, at the rate allowed to privates of infantry, which shall

1 The 12 April, 1808, chap. 43, sec. 4, ante. The regiments of cavalry, dragoons, and mounted riflemen are now denominated cavalry.

2 Law establishing sea-fencibles repealed, 27 Feb. 1815, chap. 64, vol. 3, p. 219.

3 Same provision, by the 24 April, 1816, chap. 67, sec. 7.

4 This supplies sec. 5, 6 July 1812, vol. 1, p. 785, and the 16 March, 1802, sec. 5, as respects servants.

5 Except company officers, 24 April, 1816, chap. 69, sec. 12.

For penalty, see chap. 165, July, 1862.

7 And see the 24 April, 1816, chap. 69, sce. 12.

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