SEC. 3. That the said non-commissioned officers and privates shall arm and equip themselves unless otherwise ordered by the President, and provide their own horses, and shall be allowed each $1 per day as a full compensation for their services and the use of their arms and horses. The commissioned officers shall receive the same pay and emoluments as officers of the same grade in the army of the United States; and the officers shall be allowed forage for their horses, and be entitled to the same rations as those of the same grade in the army of the United States, respectively.

SEC. 4. That the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, raised pursuant to this act, shall be entitled to the like compensation, in case of disability by wounds or otherwise incurred in the service, as has heretofore been allowed to officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates in the military establishment of the United States;, and shall be subjected to the rules and articles of war, and such regulations as have been or shall be established according to law for the government of the army of the United States, as far as the same may be applicable to the said rangers within the intent and meaning of this act, for the protection and defence of the Northwestern frontier of the United States.

SEC. 5. That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, is hereby authorized to appoint all the officers proper to be appointed under this act; which appointments may be made during the recess of the senate, but shall be submitted to the senate at their next session for their advice and consent; and that the sum of $50,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of carrying this act into effect.

[Approved, June 15, 1832.]

CHAPTER 150.-Approved, June 28, 1832.-Vol. 4, p. 550. An Act to increase the number of surgeons and assistant surgeons in the army of the United States.1

That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint four additional surgeons and ten additional surgeon's mates, in the army of the United States.

CHAPTER 224.-Approved, July 14, 1832.-Vol. 4, p. 580.

An Act supplementary to the several Acts making appropriation for the civil and military service during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. [EXTRACT.]

SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the district paymasters of the army of the United States, in addition to the payments required

1 See 14 July, 1836, further increasing the medical staff, and sec. 2, chap. 163, 21 June, 1860, and see note to chap. 42, 3 August, 1861; and see chap. 51, 16 April, 1862; chap. 55, &c.

to be made by them to the regular troops, to make payment to all other troops in the service of the United States, whenever required thereto by order of the President.1 [Approved, July 14, 1832.]

CHAPTER 236.-Approved, July 14, 1832.-Vol. 4, p. 599.

An Act for the relief of the invalid pensioners of the United States.

That an act entitled "An act regulating the payments to invalid pensioners," approved the 3d day of March, 1819, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

CHAPTER 237.-Approved, July 14, 1832.-Vol. 4, p. 600.

An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers. and soldiers of the army of the revolution.”

[Third section of the act of May 15, 1828, chap. 53, not to embrace invalid pensioners, and the pension of invalid soldiers not to be deducted from the amount due them under that act.]

[By resolution 8, July 14, 1832, vol. 4, p. 607, resolution No. 7, approved 29 April, 1816, authorizing the President of the United States to employ a skilful assistant in the corps of engineers, repealed.]

RESOLUTION 9.-Approved, July 14, 1832.—Vol. 4, p. 608. Resolution in relation to the execution of the Act supplementary to the Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.

That, in the execution of the act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, approved June 7, 1832, the time of imprisonment as prisoners of war shall be taken and computed as a part of the period of service.

1 See act 2 March, 1833, chap. 61.

2 Chap. 81.

3 Chap. 126.

CHAPTER 31.-Approved, February 19, 1833.-Vol. 4, p. 612.

An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act supplementary to the Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution."

That the second section of the act entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," approved 7 June, 1832, shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners, and that the pensions of invalid soldiers shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act.

CHAPTER 61.-Approved, March 2, 1833.-Vol. 4, p. 644.

An Act making appropriation for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

[EXTRACT.]

SEC. 2. That the secretary of war be authorized, at his discretion, out of the moneys appropriated by this or any former act for the payment of the militia ordered into the service of the United States, according to law, during the last year, to allow and pay to the district paymasters of the army of the United States employed in making such payments, a commission on the sums respectively paid by them, not exceeding one per centum upon the amounts.2

CHAPTER 68.-Approved, March 2, 1833.-Vol. 4, p. 647.

An Act to improve the condition of the non-commissioned officers and privates of the army and marine corps of the United States, and to prevent desertion.

1. Army. Term of enlistment, and pay. Marine corps. Term of enlistment, and pay. 6. No convict to be enlisted.

That from and after the passage of this act [all3 enlistments in the army of the United States shall be for three years; and that the monthly pay of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers shall be as follows: viz. to each sergeant-major, quartermaster-sergeant, and chief musician, $16; to the first sergeant of a company, $15; to all other sergeants, $12 each; to each artificer, $10; to each corporal, $8; and to each musician and private soldier, $6.] SEC. 2. That one dollar of the monthly pay of every musician and private soldier shall be retained until the expiration of the two first years of their

1 Chap. 126.

2 See chap. 224, 14 July, 1832, and chap. 168, 12 Aug. 1848, post.

3 Part in brackets supplied by 5 July, 1838, chap. 162, sec. 16.

4 See acts of July, 1861 and 1862; and for pay of enlisted men, see same acts.

7 5 During whole term of enlistment, by 3 March, 1849, chap. 103, sec. 8; $2 per month, by sec. 10, chap. 42, 3 Aug. 1861, and that repealed by chap. 200, sec. 10 17 July, 1862.

enlistment, when each shall receive the $24 retained pay which shall have so accrued: Provided, He shall have served honestly and faithfully that portion of the term of his first enlistment.

SEC. 3. That every able-bodied musician or private soldier who may reenlist into his company or regiment within two months before, or one month after, the expiration of his term of service, shall receive two months' extra pay, besides the pay and other allowances which may be due to him on account of the unexpired period of any enlistment.

SEC. 4. That every able-bodied musician or soldier who shall re-enlist into his company or regiment, as specified in the third section of this act, shall receive his full pay, at the rate of $6 per month, without any temporary deduction therefrom.

SEC. 5. That no premium to officers for enlisting recruits, nor bounties to recruits for enlisting, shall be allowed after the passage of this act.2

SEC. 6. That no person who has been convicted of any criminal offence shall be enlisted into the army of the United States.

SEC. 7. That the seventh section of the act entitled "An act making further provision for the army of the United States," passed on the 16th May, 1812, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as it applies to any enlisted soldier who shall be convicted by a general court-martial of the crime of desertion.

[Approved, March 2, 1833.]

CHAPTER 76.-Approved, March 2, 1833.-Vol. 4, p. 652.

An Act for the more perfect defence of the frontiers.

1. Organization of regiment of dragoons. 2. Pay when mounted. Pay when on foot. 3. To serve on horse or foot, and subject to rules and articles of war, &c.

That, in lieu of the battalion of mounted rangers authorized by the act of the fifteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, there be established a regiment of dragoons," to be composed and organized as follows, to wit: one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, one major, one quartermaster-sergeant, and two chief buglers, one adjutant, who shall be a lieutenant, one sergeant-major, one chief musician, and ten companies; each company to consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, and one second lieutenant, exclusive of the lieutenant who is to

1 Sections 3 and 4 appear to be supplied by 5 July, 1838, chap. 162, sec. 29. Extra pay for re-enlistment abolished by sec. 9, chap. 42, 3 Aug. 1861.

2 See chap. 10, sec. 3, 10 Dec. 1814, for bounty to recruits, &c.; but see acts of July, 1862.

3 Flogging wholly abolished by sec. 3, chap. 54, 5 Aug. 1861.

4 Chap. 131.

5 By sec. 12, chap. 42, 3 Aug. 1861, dragoons, &c. are to be denominated cavalry.

be the adjutant of the regiment; four sergeants, one of whom shall act as quartermaster-sergeant to the company, four corporals, two buglers, one farrier and blacksmith, and sixty privates.1

SEC. 2. That the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, when mounted, be entitled to the same pay and emoluments as was allowed to dragoons during the war, and when on foot, the same pay and emoluments as are now allowed to the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of a regiment of infantry; and that the farrier and blacksmith be allowed the same pay and allowances as are allowed to an artificer of artillery.

SEC. 3. That the said regiment of dragoons shall be liable to serve on horse or foot, as the President may direct; shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, be recruited in the same manner, and with the same limitations; that the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, farriers, and privates, shall be entitled to the same provisions for wounds and disabilities, the same provisions for widows and children, and the same allowances and benefits in every respect, as are allowed the other troops constituting the present military peace establishment.

SEC. 4. That the President of the United States be authorized to carry into effect this act as soon as he may deem it expedient, and to discharge the present battalion of mounted rangers on their being relieved by the said regiment of dragoons.

SEC. 5. That the sum required to carry into effect the provisions of this act is hereby appropriated, in addition to the appropriations for the military establishment for the year 1833.

[Approved, March 2, 1833.]

RESOLUTION 2.-Approved, March 2, 1833.-Vol. 4, p. 668.

Resolution in relation to the execution of the Act supplementary to the Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.

That, in the execution of the act supplementary to the act' for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, approved June 7, 1832, whenever it shall be made

1 Companies reorganized by act 23 August, 1842, chap. 186, sec. 1, authorized by chap. 131, 15 June, 1832. 2 Chap. 126.