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(ACT of April 24th, 1816.)

SEC. IV. It shall be the duty of the regimental and battalion paymasters to pay all the regular troops; and to ensure punctuality and responsibility, correct reports shall be made to the paymaster general once in two months, showing the disposition of the funds previously transmitted, with accurate 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 estimate, or neglect to render his vouchers to the paymaster general for settlement of his accounts, more than six months after receiving funds, he shall be recalled, and another appointed in his place.

88. SEC. v. The purchasing department shall consist of one commissary general of purchases, as heretofore authorized, with the annual salary of three thousand dollars, and one deputy commissary to each division, with the annual salary of two thousand dollars, and six assistant commissaries of issues, with the annual salary of one thousand three 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.

89. SEC. VI. All officers of the pay, commissary and quartermaster's department, shall, previous to their entering on the duties of their respective offices, give good and sufficient bonds to the United States, fully to account for all moneys and public property which they may receive, in such sum as the secretary of war shall direct. And all paymasters, commissaries and storekeepers, shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, in the same manner as commissioned officers: Provided also, That all officers of the pay and commissary's departments be submitted to the senate for their confirmation, in the same manner as the officers of the army. 90. SEC. VII. The president of the United States shall 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. Provided, That whenever more than the authorized quantity is required, the value of the extra articles shall be deducted 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 been issued to him in each year. Provided also, That the manner of issuing and accounting for clothing, shall be established in the general regulations of the war department.

SEC. VIII. In all cases where a soldier of the regular army shall have been discharged from the service of the United States, and 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.

91. SEC. IX. The several officers of the staff shall respectively

(ACT of April 29th, 1816.)

receive the pay and emoluments, and retain all the privileges sccured to the staff of the army, by the act of March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and not incompatible with the provisions of this act; and that the regulations in force before the reduction of the army, be recognized, be recognized, as far as the same shall be found applicable to the service, subject however to such alterations as the secretary of war may adopt, with the approbation of the president.

SEC. x. The officers of the staff, provisionally retained by the president, and in this act enumerated and made permanent, be recognized in service under this act, and that the garrison surgeons and mates be hereafter considered as post surgeons; and hereafter the staff of the army may be taken from the line of the army, or from citizens.

92. SEC. XI. The ordnance 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..

93. SEC. XII. When forage is not drawn in kind by officers of the army entitled thereto, eight dollars per month, for each horse, not exceeding the number authorized by existing regulations, shall be allowed in lieu thereof: Provided, That neither forage, nor money shall be drawn by officers, but for horses actually kept by them in service: Provided also, That none, except company officers shall be allowed to take as servants or waiters, soldiers of the army, and that all officers be allowed, for each private servant actually kept in service, not exceeding the number authorized by existing regulations, the pay, rations, and clothing of a private soldier, or money in lieu thereof, on a certificate setting forth the name and description of the servant or servants, in the pay account: Provided also, That one additional ration be allowed to all subaltern officers of the army.

ACT of April 29th, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 155.

94. SEC. 1. The president of the United States is authorized to employ, in addition to the corps of engineers as now established, a skilful assistant, whose compensation shall be such as the president of the United States shall think proper, not exceeding the allowance to the chief officer of that corps.

ACT of April 14th, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 84.

“An act regulating the staff of the army.”

95. SEC. II. There shall be one surgeon general, with a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, one assistant surgeon general with the emoluments of a hospital surgeon, one

(ACT of April 14th, 1818.)

judge advocate, with the pay and emoluments of a topographical engineer, to each division, and one chaplain, stationed at the military academy, at West Point, who shall also be professor of geography, history and ethics, with the pay and emoluments allowed the professor of mathematics; and that the number of post surgeons be increased, not to exceed eight to a division.

96. SEC. III. So much of the act of the twenty-fourth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, aforesaid, as relates to the quartermaster general of division, shall be repealed, and the quartermaster's department shall consist, in addition to the two deputy quartermasters general, and the four assistant deputy quartermasters general, now authorized, of one quartermaster general, with the rank, pay, and emoluments, of a brigadier general, and as many assistant deputy quartermasters general as the president shall deem proper, not exceeding in the whole number, twelve.

97. SEC. v. The pay and emoluments of the inspector generals of divisions, are hereby, raised to be equal to the pay and emoluments of the adjutant generals of division.

98. SEC. VI. As soon as the state of existing contracts for the subsistence of the army shall in the opinion of the president of the United States, permit it, there shall be appointed by the president, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, one commissary general, with the rank, pay, and emoluments, of colonel of ordnance, who shall, before entering on the duties of his office, give bond and security, in such sum as the president may direct, and as many assistants, to be taken from the subalterns of the line, as the service may require, who shall receive twenty dollars per month, in addition to their pay in the line, and who shall, before entering on the duties of their office, give bond and security, in such sums as the president may direct. The commissary general and his assistants shall perform such duties in purchasing and issuing of rations to the army of the United States, as the president may direct.

99. SEC. VII. Supplies for the army, unless, in particular and urgent cases, the secretary of war should otherwise direct, shall be purchased by contract, to be made by the commissary general on public notice, to be delivered on inspection in the bulk and at such places as shall be stipulated; which contract shall be made under such regulations as the secretary of war may direct.

100. SEC. VIII. The president may make such alterations in the component parts of the ration, as a due regard to the health and comfort of the army, and economy may require.

101. SEC. IX. The commissary general and his assistants shall not be concerned, directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale in trade or commerce of any article entering into the composition of the ration allowed to the troops in the service of the United States, except on account of the United States, nor shall such officer take and apply to his own use any gain or emolument for regulating or

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(ACT of April 20th, 1818.)

transacting any business connected with the duties of his office, other than what is or may be allowed by law; and the commissary general and his assistants shall be subject to martial law.

SEC. X. All letters to and from the commissary general, which may relate to his official duties, shall be free from postage: Provided, that the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sections of this act shall continue and be in force for the term of five years from the passing of the same, and thence until the end of the next session of congress, and no longer.

ACT of April 16th, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 89.

102. SEC. 1. Officers of the army who have brevet commissions, shall be entitled to, and receive the pay and emoluments of their brevet rank when on duty, and having a command according to their brevet rank, and at no other time.

SEC. II. No brevet commission shall hereafter be conferred, but by and with the advice and consent of the senate.

ACT of April 20th, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 135.

103. SEC. I. Hereafter, the company officers of the corps of artillery, shall consist of one captain, two first lieutenants, and two second lieutenants; and in the corps of light artillery, the company officers shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant and two second lieutenants; and one of the second lieutenants in each company shall act as a conductor of artillery, as in the case of the corps of artillery, whose duty it shall be to receipt and account for all ammunition, implements and cannon; and for the performance of these services they shall be allowed, each, ten dollars extra per month.

104. SEC. II. To each regiment of infantry, riflemen, and to each battalion of the corps of artillery, and to the regiment of light artillery, there shall be attached one armorer, with the pay and emoluments allowed to armorers employed by the ordnance department.

105. SEC. I. In all cases during the late war, where an officer or soldier has been delayed the receipt of his pay and emoluments, or any part thereof, by having been transferred from one corps to another, or omitted to be returned on the muster roll, pay roll, or receipt roll, or from any other cause whatever, upon a satisfactory evidence of the justice of such claim, the same shall be adjusted and paid.

ACT of March 2d, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 37.

106. SEC. I. Whenever it shall be found expedient to employ the army at work on fortifications, in surveys, in cutting roads, and other constant labour, of not less than ten days, the noncom

(ACT of September 24th, 1789 )

missioned officers, musicians, and privates so employed, shall be allowed fifteen cents, and an extra gill of whiskey or spirits each, per day, while so employed.

ACT of May 8th, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 70.

107. SEC. I. The apothecary general and assistant apothecaries general, shall severally give bonds to the United States, with good and sufficient security for the faithful performance of their duties, in such sums, as shall be required by the surgeon general of the army, under the direction of the war department.

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ACT of September 24th, 1789. 2 Bioren, 70.

1. SEC. xxxv. In all the courts of the United States, the parties may plead and manage their own causes personally, or by the assistance of such counsel or attorney at law, as by the rules of the said courts, respectively shall be permitted to manage and conduct causes therein. And there shall be appointed in each district, a meet person learned in the law to act as attorney for the United States in such district, who shall be sworn or affirmed to the faithful execution of his office, whose duty it shall be to prosecute in such district all delinquents for crimes or offences, cognizable under the authority of the United States, and all civil actions in which the United States shall be concerned, except before the supreme court in the district in which that court shall be holden. And he shall receive as a compensation for his services, such fees as shall be taxed therefor in the respective courts before which the suits or prosecutions shall be.

And there shall also be appointed a meet person learned in the law, to act as attorney general for the United States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office, whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the supreme court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the president of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern

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