TABLE OF PAY, SUBSISTENCE, FORAGE, ETC.-Continued. Paymaster's clerks, $700 per annum, and one ration (75 cents) per day when on duty. The officer in command of a company is allowed $10 per month for the responsibility of clothing, arms, and accoutrements.-Act 2 March, 1827, Sec. 2. *Subaltern officers, employed on the General Staff, and receiving increased pay therefor, are not entitled to the additional or fourth ration provided by the Act of 2 March, 1827, Sec. 2. Every commissioned officer below the rank of Brigadier-General receives one additional ration per day for every five years' service.-Act 5 July, 1836, Sec. 12, and 7 July, 1838, Sec. 9. Forage is commuted only when the Government cannot furnish it in kind, and then at $8 per month for each horse actually kept by the officer. MONTHLY PAY OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, PRIVATES, &c. 12 cents per month is to be retained from the pay of each enlisted man of the army, for the support of the "Soldier's Home." $2 per month is allowed for re-enlistment, and $1 per month additional for each subsequent period of five years' service, provided the enlistment is made within one month after the expiration of each term. 35 INDEX. A. ABANDONING a post, penalty for, 71, 184. from camp without leave, punished, 69, 183. from parade, penalty for, 70. of chief of military bureau, 338. on furlough limited, 177. without leave, penalty for, 66, 69, 177, 178, 184. Absentees at muster, certificates in regard to, 65, 177. Abstracts of returns, made annually 99. Abuses redressed by commanding officer, 67. Academy, military. (See MILITARY ACADEMY.) Accountant of war department, 101. Accountants of war and navy departments, duties of, 209. Accountant's offices of war and navy departments abolished, 279. of commissions, &c., paid by special appropriation, 362. of disbursing officers, settlement of, 523. of military contributions in Mexico, 430. of money received in advance, 243. of receivers of public moneys, 208. quarterly, of supplies, 243. time allowed for rendition of, 524. Act of September 29, 1789, repealed, 89. to prevent and punish frauds, suspended, 536. Adjutant and inspector of army, duties of, 142. Adjutant, duties of, 162. Adjutant-general, 213. additional rations to, 387. appointment of, 308, 383. assistant, appointed, 343, 364, 383. duties of, 99, 150. of army ex officio assistant inspector-general, 137. of militia, duties of, 150. pay of brevet officers to include, 353. Adjutant-general, President may appoint, 123. Adjutant-general's department, organization of, 480. Adjutant, monthly pay of, 93. to each regiment, 307. Adjutants-general, assistant, duties of, 343. Advances of public money prohibited, 311. recruits, 87, 237, 239, 260, 495. Agent of treasury designated by President, 301. for purchases and contracts, 209. abolished, 220. duties of, 146. pay of, 143. Aid and comfort to rebels, property of those who give, confiscated, 521. one to each brigade, 257. pay of, 90, 93, 143. senior, of major-general commanding, 409. Aids-de-camp, whence taken, 374. Aids of brigadier-generals, 255. pay of, 259. officers detached to serve as, 135. Alarms, penalty for creating false, 70, 184. Allowance for clerk hire, 150. for ten years' service, 349. upon discharge to officers deranged, 148. Amendments to Constitution, 49. Ammunition, penalty for waste of, 69, 182. Apothecary-general, duties of, 129. pay of, 246. Appointment of inspector of fortifications, 137. of quartermaster-general, 217. Appointments from the line, proviso relating to, 88. Apprehension of deserters, reward for, 82. Apprentices, bounty money of, 261. Appropriation, annual, for arming militia, 277. |