charged, such part of the light dragoons, artillery, and infantry, authorized by the act, entitled "An act to raise an additional military force," as he may deem expedient: Provided, The whole number, so to be enlisted for eighteen months, shall not exceed fifteen thousand, any thing in the said recited act to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. That the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, so to be enlisted, shall be entitled to the bounty of $16, and the same pay, clothing, and rations, the same provisions for wounds or disabilities, and to all other allowances, (the bounty in land excepted,) provided by the said before-recited act, for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, who may be raised under the same, and shall be held to perform the same duties, and be subject to the same rules and regulations. [Approved, April 8, 1812.] CHAPTER 54.-Approved, April 10, 1812.—Vol. 2, p. 704. An Act for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the late campaign on the Wabash.1 That the officers, according to the rank assigned them by Governor Harrison, and which they held on the 7th day of November, 1811, the noncommissioned officers, and soldiers, of the volunteers and militia, and the legal representatives of those who were killed or died of their wounds, composing the army that served in the late campaign on the Wabash against the hostile Indians, shall receive the same compensation which is allowed by law to the militia of the United States when called into the actual service of the United States. SEC. 2. That the officers, according to the rank which they held as aforesaid, the non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, of the volunteers or militia, who served in the said campaign, and who were killed or died of wounds received in said service, leaving a widow, or, if no widow, shall have left a child or children under the age of sixteen years, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to and receive the half of the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, or receiving the wound of which he died, for and during the term of five years; and in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of the term of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer or soldier, whilst under the age of sixteen years; and in like manner the allowance to the child or children of such deceased, where there is no widow, shall be paid no longer than while there is a child or children under the age aforesaid: Provided, That no greater sum shall be allowed in any case to the widow or to the child or children of any officer than the half pay of a lieutenant-colonel. SEC. 3. That every officer, according to the rank which he held as aforesaid, non-commissioned officer, and private, of the volunteers and militia, who served in the said campaign, and who have been disabled by known wounds received in said service, shall be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pension as shall be directed by the President of the United States, upon satisfactory proof of such wound and dis 31 1 It is presumed that all claims under this act have been satisfied. ability being produced to the secretary of war, agreeably to such rules as he may prescribe: Provided, That the rate of compensation for such wounds and disabilities shall never, for the highest disability, exceed half the monthly pay of such officer at the time of being so wounded or disabled, and that the rate of compensation to a non-commissioned officer and private shall never exceed $51 per month; and all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so disabled, to receive a sum in proportion to the highest disability; but no pension of a commissioned officer shall be calculated at a higher rate than the half pay of a lieutenant-colonel. SEC. 4. That any person or persons belonging to the said army, who may have had a horse or horses killed or lost during the late battle on the Wabash, shall be entitled to and receive the value thereof: Provided, That the proof of the value of such horse or horses shall be by affidavit of the quartermaster of the corps to which the owner may have belonged, or of two other credible witnesses. SEC. 5. That to the heirs or legal representatives of every person who was killed, and to every person who was wounded, in the said campaign, who were purchasers of public lands of the United States, and whose lands had not, before the 7th of November, 1811, been actually sold or reverted to the United States, for the non-payment of part of the purchase money, a further time of three years shall be allowed, in addition to the time allowed by former laws, to complete their payments; which further time of three years shall commence from the respective times when their payments should have been completed according to former laws. [Approved, April 10, 1812.] CHAPTER 55.-Approved, April 10, 1812.-Vol. 2, p. 705. An Act to authorize a detachment from the Militia of the United States. [Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this act are about identical with similar sections of the acts of 3 March, 1803, chap. 32, 18 April, 1806, chap. 32, and 30 March, 1808, chap. 39. Sections 6 and 7 suspend whipping as punishment, substitute stoppage of pay, confinement, &c. therefor. Sec. 8 appropriates $1,000,000; and Sec. 9 limits the act to two years.] CHAPTER 59.-Approved, April 23, 1812.—Vol. 2, p. 710. An Act for the organization of a corps of artificers.2 That there shall be attached to the quartermaster-general's department, and subject to the orders of the officers thereof, a corps of artificers, to consist of one superintendent, to be appointed by the President of the United States, four assistants, two master-masons, two master-carpenters, two master-blacksmiths, two master boat-builders, two master-armorers, two master saddle and harness-makers, twenty house-carpenters, five ship 1 Increased to $8. 2 Superseded by act of 3 March, 1815, chap. 79, sec. 2. See sec. 3, chap. 109. 5 July, 1862. carpenters, twenty blacksmiths, sixteen boat-builders, sixteen armorers, twelve saddle and harness-makers, and twenty-four laborers, to be selected from the privates of the army, when authorized thereto by the commanding general, or engaged from among the citizens by the superintendent. SEC. 2. That the pay of the superintendent of artificers shall be $45 per month, three rations per day, and forage for one horse; that the pay of the four assistants be, each, $30 per month, and two rations per day; that the pay of the twelve master-workmen be, each, $30 per month, and one ration and one-half of a ration per day; that the pay of the other workmen be, each, $16 per month, and one ration and one-half of a ration per day. SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the superintendent of artificers to render a correct report, once each month, of the corps, to the quartermaster-general, and on oath to make out the pay-roll thereof; which payroll shall be examined by the quartermaster-general, or, in his absence, by one of the deputy-quartermasters, and by him be countersigned; and faithfully, and without delay, to execute all such orders as he may receive from the secretary of war, any officer of the quartermaster's department, or from the officer commanding in the field or garrison to which his corps, or any part thereof, may be attached. SEC. 4. That this corps shall be engaged for and during the term of three years, unless sooner discharged by the President of the United States. SEC. 5. That, for defraying the expense that may be incurred in the execution of this act, the sum of $30,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, April 23, 1812.] CHAPTER 72.-Approved, April 29, 1812.—Vol. 2, p. 720. An Act making further provision for the corps of engineers.1 1. Officers to be added to the corps of engineers. A company of bombardiers, sappers, and miners, to be formed, to be officered from the corps of engineers, &c. Non-commissioned officers, artificers, &c., allowed the same pay, &c., as in the regiment of artillerists. 2. The military academy to consist of the corps of engineers, and, in addition to the teachers of French and drawing, of a professor of natural and experimental philosophy, a professor of mathematics, a professor of the art of engineering, with assistant professors, &c. Proviso: nothing herein to entitle the academical staff to any command in the army, separate, &c. 3. The cadets not to exceed two hundred and fifty. Regulations concerning the organization, discipline, age, qualifications, and term of service of cadets. 4. When a cadet receives a regular degree, &c., he is to be considered as among the candidates for a commission, &c.; and when there is no vacancy in a corps, he may be attached to it as a supernumerary officer, &c. Proviso: not more than one supernumerary officer to one company. That there be added to the corps of engineers two captains, two first lieutenants, two second lieutenants, with the usual pay 1 See act of 16 March, 1802, chap. 9, sec. 26, and 5 July, 1838, chap. 162. and emoluments, according to their grades, respectively, and one paymaster, to be taken from the subalterns of engineers,' with the pay and emoluments of a regimental paymaster; and that there be attached to the said corps, either from the troops now in service, or by new enlistments, as the President of the United States may direct, four sergeants, four corporals, one teacher of music, four musicians, nineteen artificers, and sixty-two men, which non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and men, together with the artificers and men already belonging to the corps of engineers, shall be formed into a company, to be styled a company of bombardiers, sappers, and miners, and be officered from the corps of engineers, according as the commanding officer of that corps may, with the approbation of the President of the United States, direct; and the said non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and men, shall be allowed the same pay and emoluments as are allowed to the non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and men in the regiment of artillerists. SEC. 2. That the military academy shall consist of the corps of engineers, and the following professors, in addition to the teachers of the French language and drawing already provided," viz. one professor of natural and experimental philosophy, with the pay and emoluments of lieutenant-colonel, if not an officer of the corps, and, if taken from the corps, then so much in addition to his pay and emoluments as shall equal those of a lieutenant-colonel; one professor of mathematics, with the pay and emoluments of a major, if not an officer of the corps, and, if taken from the corps, then so much in addition to his pay and emoluments as shall equal those of a major; one professor of the art of engineering in all its branches, with the pay and emoluments of a major, if not an officer of the corps, and, if taken from the corps, then so much in addition to his pay and emoluments as shall equal those of a major; each of the foregoing professors to have an assistant professor, which assistant professor shall be taken from the most prominent characters of the officers or cadets, and receive the pay and emoluments of captains, and no other pay or emoluments, while performing these duties: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall 1 Words in italics repealed, 5 July, 1838, chap. 162, sec. 3. 3 By sec. 2, chap. 13, 28 February, 1803. entitle the academical staff, as such, to any command in the army separate from the academy. SEC. 3. That the cadets heretofore appointed in the service of the United States, whether of artillery, cavalry, riflemen, or infantry, or that may in future be appointed as hereinafter provided, shall at no time exceed two hundred and fifty; that they may be attached, at the discretion of the President of the United States, as students, to the military academy, and be subject to the established regulations thereof; that they shall be arranged into companies of non-commissioned officers and privates, according to the directions of the commandant of engineers, and be officered from the said corps, for the purpose of military instruction; that there shall be added to each company of cadets four musicians: and the said corps shall be trained and taught all the duties of a private, non-commissioned officer, and officer, be encamped at least three months of each year, and taught all the duties incident to a regular camp; that the candidates for cadets be not under the age of fourteen nor above the age of twenty-one years; that each cadet, previously to his appointment by the President of the United States, shall be well versed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and that he shall sign articles, with the consent of his parent or guardian, by which he shall engage to serve five years, unless sooner discharged; and all such cadets shall be entitled to and receive the pay and emoluments now allowed by law to cadets in the corps of engineers." SEC. 4. That when any cadet shall receive a regular degree from the academical staff, after going through all the classes, he shall be considered as among the candidates for a commission in any corps, according to the duties he may be judged competent to perform; and in case there shall not, at the time, be a vacancy in such corps, he may be attached to it at the discretion of the President of the United States, by brevet of the lowest grade, as a supernumerary officer, with the usual pay and emoluments of such grade, until a vacancy shall happen: Provided, That there shall not be more than one supernumerary officer to any one3 company at the same time. 1 Eight years by 5 July, 1838, chap. 162. 2 $30 per month by chap. 119, 3 March, 1857. 3 This will allow 159; the number attached to the army is 66. See President's Message, 1853-54, part 2, p. 3; see 4 August, 1854, chap. 247, sec. 5. |