President may deem expedient. And officers taken from the line, and transferred to the staff, shall receive only the pay and emoluments attached to the rank in the staff; but their transfer shall be without prejudice to their rank and promotion in the line according to their said rank and seniority; which promotion shall take place according to usage, in the same manner as if they had not been thus transferred. SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the war department, and he is hereby authorized, to prepare general regulations, better defining and prescribing the respective duties and powers of the several officers in the adjutant-general, inspector-general, quartermaster-general, and commissary of ordnance, departments of the topographical engineers, of the aids of generals, and generally of the general and regimental staff; which regulations, when approved by the President of the United States, shall be respected and obeyed, until altered or revoked by the same authority. And the said general regulations, thus prepared and approved, shall be laid before Congress at their next session. SEC. 6. That the number of assistant deputy commissaries of ordnance shall not exceed sixteen, and that they shall, respectively, be entitled to the brevet rank and to the pay and emoluments of a first lieutenant of infantry. SEC. 7.2 That, for the better superintendence and management of the hospital and medical establishment of the army of the United States, there shall be a physician and surgeon-general, with an annual salary of $2500, and an apothecary-general, with an annual salary of $1800; whose respect ive duties and powers shall be prescribed by the President of the United States. SEC. 8. That the forage, wagon, and barrack masters shall be appointed as heretofore; but each quartermaster-general attached to any separate army, command, or district, shall be authorized, with the approbation and under the direction of the secretary of the war department, to appoint as many such officers, and to employ as many artificers, mechanics, and laborers, as the public service may require. SEC. 9. That the assistant deputy quartermasters-general may be appointed, and officers taken from the line and transferred to the staff may be thus transferred, by the President of the United States alone. But all other new appointments authorized by this act shall be made by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provided, That, during the recess of the Senate, such appointments may be made by the President alone; in which case the same shall be laid before the Senate at their next session for their advice and consent. SEC. 10. That every act, and every part of any act, of Congress now in force within the purview and meaning of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. The ordnance was reorganized by the 8 Feb. 1815, and the 2 March, 1821, chap. 13. 2 The medical staff was reorganized by the 2 March, 1821, chap. 13, sec. 10; and see the acts of July, 1862, Nos. 55, 80, 127. 3 Feb. 24, 1813, chap. 24; as to forage and wagon masters, see the 5 July, 1838. chap. 162, sec. 1. This section (9) is supplied by the 5 July, 1838, chap. 162, sec. 9. SEC. 11. That all letters and packets to and from the adjutant and inspector general, adjutants-general, inspectors-general, quartermasters-general, commissary-general of ordnance, physician and surgeon general, and apothecary-general, which relate to their official duties, shall be free from postage.1 SEC. 12. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint any of the officers authorized by an act entitled "An act making provision for an additional number of general officers," passed the 24th day of February, 1813, during the recess of the Senate, to be submitted to the Senate at their next session for their advice and consent;and that no officer appointed, or who may be appointed, by virtue of the aforesaid act, shall be entitled to receive any pay or emolument until he shall be called into actual service, nor for any longer time than he shall be continued therein. [Approved, March 3, 1813.] RESOLUTION 2.-Approved, March 3, 1813.-Vol. 2, p. 830. Resolution requesting the President of the United States to cause to be prepared and laid before Congress a system of military discipline. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, requested to cause to be prepared and laid before Congress, as soon as practicable, a military system of discipline for the infantry of the army and militia of the United States.2 CHAPTER 4.-Approved, July 5, 1813.-Vol. 3, p. 3. An Act to amend the "Act in addition to the Act entitled 'An Act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes." "4 That five of the regiments which were authorized to be raised by “An act in addition to the act entitled 'An act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes,"" passed the 29th day of January, 1813, may, at the discretion of the President of the United States, be enlisted for and during the war, unless sooner discharged, and be limited, as to service, to the defence of the seaboard of the United States, or of such part thereof as the President may elect and determine. SEC. 2. That each man recruited under the authority of this act be allowed the same bounty, in money and land, as is allowed by law to men enlisted for five years, or for the war; and that the officers, non-commissioned 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. 1 Franking privilege abolished. See note to chap. 137, 6 July, 1812, ante. General Scott's system was adopted. 38 April, 1812, chap. 53. Chap. 16. 4 11 January, 1812, chap. 14. 6 See 2 March, 1833, chap. 68, sec. 5. CHAPTER 17.-Approved, July 22, 1813.-Vol. 3, p. 34. An Act to regulate the allowance of forage to officers in the Army of the United States.1 That all officers in the military service of the United States, who are by law entitled to forage, shall receive, in lieu thereof, when not drawn in kind, an equivalent in money, at the rate of $8 per month for each horse to which they may be entitled: Provided, That no allowance shall be made to any officer for more horses than he shall actually employ in the public service. CHAPTER 40.-Approved, August 2, 1813.-Vol. 3, p. 73. An Act to provide for the widows and orphans of militia slain, and for militia disabled, in the service of the United States. 1. Widow and children of militia dying in service to have pension for five years. 2. Officers and privates disabled in service, placed on pension list, under April 10, 1806, chap. 25. Pensions not to exceed half pay. That if any commissioned officer of the militia, or of any volunteer corps, shall, while in the service of the United States, die by reason of any wound received in actual service of the United States, and leave a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer: Provided, always, That such half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children. SEC. 2. That if any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private of the militia, or of any volunteer corps, shall be disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, while in the line of his duty, he shall, upon substantiating his claim in the manner described by an act entitled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known 1 This act was superseded by that of 3 March, 1815, which adopted, in every respect, the provisions of 16 March, 1802, and 12 April, 1808. in regard to allowThe provisions of this act were, however, again established by act of 24 April, 1816, sec. 12, chap. 69. Forage in kind only, by chap. 200, July, 1862. ances. 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 Act3 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 'Ar act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes,' 774 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. Chap. 31, 25 Feb. 1813. 2 Made $8 by act of 24 April, 1816. 5 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.2 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 herein before 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. 4 Chap. 14. 3 Chap. 12. |