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cases, in computing the length of service of the officers and soldiers of any such company, battalion, or regiment, there shall be allowed one day for every twenty miles from the place where the company, battalion, or regiment was organized to the place where the same was mustered into the service of the United States, and also one day for every twenty miles from the place where such company, battalion, or regiment was discharged, to the place where it was organized, and from whence it marched to enter the service: Provided, That such march was in obedience to the command or direction of the President of the United States, or some general officer of the United States, commanding an army or department, or the chief executive officer of the state or territory by which such company, battalion, or regiment was called into service.

[Approved, May 14, 1856.]

CHAPTER 125.-Approved, August 16, 1856.-Vol. 11, p. 51. An Act providing for a necessary increase and better organization of the medical and hospital department of the army.

That there be added to the medical department of the army four surgeons and eight assistant surgeons, to be appointed in accordance with the existing laws.

SEC. 2. That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, from the enlisted men of the army, or cause to be enlisted, as many competent hospital stewards as the service may require, not to exceed one for each military post, the said hospital stewards to be mustered and paid on hospital muster rolls as non-commissioned staff officers, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a sergeant of ordnance,3

and to be permanently attached to the medical and hospital department, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the secretary of war.

SEC. 3. That soldiers acting as cooks and nurses in hospitals be, and are hereby, allowed the extra pay authorized to soldiers on fatigue duty by "An act to increase the pay of the rank and file of the army," approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

1 See chap. 83, 2 March, 1849, and sec. 2, chap. 163, 21 June, 1860; for further increase, see chap. 55, 16 April, 1862, and chap. 127, 2 July, 1862.

2 As the service may require, by 16 April, 1862.

3 $30 a month, by same act.

4 Chap. 247.

CHAPTER 36.-Approved, February 7, 1857.-Vol. 11, p. 157.

An Act supplementary to an Act1 to organize an institution for the insane of the army and navy, and of the District of Columbia, in the said District, approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

That no insane person not charged with any breach of the peace shall, ever hereafter, be confined in the United States jail, or in the United States penitentiary, in this District.

SEC. 2.2 That the secretary of the interior shall have power to grant his order for the admission into the government hospital for the insane, any insane person unable to support himself or herself and family (or himself, or herself, if he or she have no family) under the visitation of insanity, who resided in the District at the time he or she became insane, and who is not charged with any breach of the peace, upon the certificate of any judge of the circuit or criminal court, or any justice of the peace of the District, stating that two respectable physicians appeared before said judge or justice and certified under oath, and under their hands, that they knew the party alleged to be insane, and that they believed him or her to be a fit subject for treatment in such hospital; also stating that two respectable householders, residents of the District, appeared before him and certified under oath, and under their hands, that they knew the party alleged to be insane and indigent, that he or she was a resident of the District at the time he or she was seized with the mental disorder under which he or she then labored, and that he or she was unable to pay his or her board and other expenses therein; and the certificate of such physicians and the certificate of such householders shall accompany the certificate of such judge or justice. The application of [to] the secretary of the interior for his order for the admission of said indigent insane person into the said hospital must be made within five days after the examination of the witnesses before the said judge or justice of the peace, before such proceedings shall be had before such judge or justice.

SEC. 3. That the order of the secretary of the interior, granted under the authority of the second section of this act, shall authorize any police officer or constable to assist in carrying such indigent insane person to the hospital, whenever such assistance is represented to be necessary by the person holding the order; but all the expenses of witnesses before said judge or justice of the peace, and of carrying such patient to the hospital, shall be borne by his or her friends, or by the local authorities of the District.

SEC. 4. That any indigent insane person who did not reside in the District at the time he or she became insane may, in like

1 Chap. 199, 3 March, 1855. See chap. 66, 1 June, 1860.

2 This section repealed and supplied by sec. 1, chap. 60, 28 Feb. 1861, which see for additions hereto.

manner as provided in the second section of this act, be admitted into the said hospital upon the application of the corporate authorities of the city of Washington, or of Georgetown, and at the expense of either of the said cities during the continuance of said insane person therein, it being hereby designed to give the superintendent thereof authority to take charge of such insane person until the authorities aforesaid can discover who his or her friends are, or whence he or she came, with a view to the return of such person to such friends, or to the place of his or her residence, and thus relieve said corporate authorities of the expense and charge of said indigent insane non-resident.

SEC. 5. That if any person, charged with crime, be found in the court before which he or she is so charged, to be an insane person, such court shall certify the same to the secretary of the interior, who may order such person to be confined in said hospital, and if he or she be not indigent, he or she and his or her estate shall be charged with expenses of his or her support in said hospital.

SEC. 6. That any person becoming insane during the continuance of his or her sentence in the United States penitentiary, shall have the same privilege of treatment in the hospital during the continuance of his or her mental disorder as is granted in section five to persons who escape the consequences of criminal acts by reason of insanity, unless it be the opinion, both of the physician to the penitentiary and the superintendent of the hospital, that such insane convict is so depraved and furious in his or her character as to render his or her custody in the hospital insecure, and his or her example pernicious.

SEC. 7. That when any person confined in said hospital, charged with crime and subject to be tried therefor, or convicted of crime and undergoing sentence therefor, shall be restored to sanity, the superintendent of the hospital shall give notice thereof to the judge of the criminal court, and deliver him or her to said court in obedience to the proper precept.

SEC. 8. That the independent or pay patients may be received into the hospital on the certificate of two respectable physicians of the District, stating that they have personally examined the patient, and believe him or her to be insane at the time of giving the certificate, and a fit subject for treatment in the institution, accompanied by a written request for the admission from

the nearest relatives, legal guardian, or friend of the patient, where he or she may remain until restored to reason: Provided, The friends of the patient comply with the regulations of the hospital in respect to payment of board, and in all other respects. The request for admission must be made within five days of the date of the certificate of insanity.

SEC. 9. That if any person will give bond, with sufficient security, to be approved by the criminal court, or circuit court, or any judge thereof in vacation, payable to the United States, with condition to restrain and take care of any independent or indigent insane person not charged with a breach of the peace, whether in the hospital or not, until the insane person is restored to sanity, such court or judge thereof may, in its discretion, deliver such insane person to the party giving such bond. [Approved, February 7, 1857.]

Chap. 199, 1855. Chap, 66, 1860. Chap. 60, 1861.

CHAPTER 45.-Approved, February 16, 1857.-Vol. 11, p. 160. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

SEC. 2. That there shall be appointed at the Military Academy, in addition to the professors authorized by the existing laws, a professor of Spanish, at a salary of two thousand dollars' per

annum.

SEC. 3. That the compensation of the master of the sword be fifteen hundred dollars' per annum, with fuel and quarters.

CHAPTER 55.-Approved, February 21, 1857.-Vol. 11, p. 163. An Act to increase the pay of the officers of the army.

That from and after the commencement of the present fiscal year, the pay of each commissioned officer of the army, including military storekeepers, shall be increased twenty dollars per

1 Now $2240 per annum.

2 Formerly $800, and by chap. 54, sec. 2, 10 May, 1854, $1200.

month, and that the commutation price of officers' subsistence shall be thirty' cents per ration.

SEC. 2. That the secretary of war be authorized, on the recommendation of the council of administration, to extend the additional pay herein provided to any person serving as chaplain, at any post of the army.2

[Approved, February 21, 1857.]

CHAPTER 106.-Approved, March 3, 1857.-Vol. 11, p. 200. An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

3. Pay of master-armorers. 4. Act of 1819, chap. 188, as to sale of sites, extended. Such sites to be subject to taxation after sale. Proviso: right of the state to tax, &c. 16. Construction of the joint resolution authorizing the title of lieutenant-general. Secretary of lieutenant-general and aids.

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SEC. 2. That there shall be added to the quartermaster's department of the army five military storekeepers, who shall give the bond and security required by the existing law; and they and all other military storekeepers shall have in kind, and in kind only, the fuel and quarters of first lieutenant of the army.

SEC. 3. That the master-armorers at the national armories shall receive fifteen hundred dollars each per annum.*

SEC. 4. That the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen, entitled "An act authorizing the sale of certain military sites," be, and they are hereby, extended to all military sites, or to such parts thereof which are or may become useless for military purposes: Provided, nevertheless, That nothing in this act, nor in the act above mentioned, shall be so construed as to impair in any wise the right of the state within which any such site or reservation may be situated to impose taxes on the same, in like manner as upon other lands or property owned by individuals within the state after such sale.

1 Formerly 20 cents.

2 Now $40 per month: this made it $60 per month, but by chap. 200, 17 July, 1862. $100 per month, two rations a day, and forage in kind for one horse.

3 Making seven in that department. Five more added by chap. 133, 5 July, 1862.

+$1250 by sec. 2, chap. 186, 23 August, 1842.

5 Chap. 88, which, with this extension, was repealed by sec. 6, chap. 156, 2 June.

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