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Companies and detachments.

Pay of Marine .Corps.

Sec.

SEC. 1611. The Marine Corps may be formed into as many companies or detachments as the President may direct, with a proper distribution of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers and musicians to each company or detachment.

SEC. 1612. The officers of the Marine Corps shall be entitled to receive the same pay and allowances, and the enlisted men shall be entitled to receive the same pay and bounty for re-enlisting, as are or may be provided by or in pursuance of law for the officers and enlisted men of like grades in the infantry of the Army.*

*The following sections, 1261 to 1308, relate to pay and allowances in the Army:

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Title 14, Chap. 3.

Rates of pay.

Service-pay.

Brevets.
Pay during ab-

sence.

Forfeiture of

pay.

Maximum of

Sec.

1284. Re-enlistment.

1285. Certificate of merit.

1286. Non-commissioned officers of Mexican war.
1287. Extra duty.

1288. During captivity.
1289. Travel-pay to officers.

1290. Travel-pay to soldiers.

1291. Soldiers' pay not assignable.
1293. Rations of enlisted men.

1294. Sugar and coffee.

1296. Clothing prescribed by the President.

1297. None to ordnance-sergeants.

1298. Gratuitous clothing.

1299. Deductions for rations purchased.

1300. For articles purchased.

1301. For tobacco purchased.

1302. Clothing allowances and deductions.

1303. For damage to arms.

1304. For deficiencies.

1305. Deposits of soldiers' savings.

1306. Interest on deposits.

1307. Regulations for deposits,

1308. Deposits and clothing balances, how payable.

OFFICERS.

SEC. 1261. The officers of the Army shall be entitled to the pay herein stated after their respective designations:

Brigadier-general: five thousand five hundred dollars a year.

Colonel: three thousand five hundred dollars a year. [See § 1267.]
Lieutenant-colonel: three thousand dollars a year. [See § 1267.]
Major: Two thousand five hundred dollars a year.

Captain, mounted: two thousand dollars a year.

Captain, not mounted: eighteen hundred dollars a year.
Adjutant: Eighteen hundred dollars a year.

Regimental quartermaster: eighteen hundred dollars a year.
First lieutenant mounted: Sixteen hundred dollars a year.
First lieutenant not mounted:. fifteen hundred dollars a year.
Second lieutenant, mounted: fifteen hundred dollars a year.
Second lieutenant, not mounted: Fourteen hundred dollars a year.

Aid to brigadier-general: one hundred and fifty dollars a year, in addition to pay of

his rank.

SEC. 1262. There shall be allowed and paid to each commissioned officer below the rank of brigadier-general, including chaplains and others having assimilated rank or pay, ten per centum of their current yearly pay for each term of five years of service. SEC. 1263. The total amount of such increase for length of service shall in no case exceed forty per centum on the yearly pay of the grade as provided by law.

SEC. 1264. Brevets conferred upon commissioned officers shall not entitle them to any increase of pay.

SEC. 1265. Officers when absent on account of sickness or wounds, or lawfully absent from duty and waiting orders, shall receive full pay; when absent with leave, for other causes, full pay during such absence not exceeding in the aggregate thirty days in one year, and half-pay during such absence exceeding thirty days in one year. When absent without leave, they shall forfeit all pay during such absence, unless the absence is excused as unavoidable.

SEC. 1266. Every officer who is dropped by the President from the rolls of the Army for absence from duty three months without leave, shall forfeit all pay due or to become due.

SEC. 1267. In no case shall the pay of a colonel exceed four thousand five hundred colonel's and lieu- dollars a year, or the pay of a lieutenant-colonel exceed four thousand dollars a year. tenant-colonel's

pay.
To be paid
monthly.

Allowance of fuel, quarters, and forage.

SEC. 1268. The sums hereinbefore allowed shall be paid in monthly payments by the paymaster.

SEC. 1269. No allowances shall be made to officers in addition to their pay except as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 1270. Fuel, quarters, and forage may be furnished in kind to officers by the Quartermaster's Department according to law and regulations.

SEC. 1271. Forage in kind may be furnished to officers by the Quartermaster's Department as follows:

Major-general: for five horses.

Brigadier-general: for four horses.
Colonel for two horses.

SEC. 1613. The marines who compose the corps of musicians known as the "Marine band" shall be entitled to receive at the rate of four dollars a month, each, in addition to their pay as non-commissioned officers, musicians, or privates of the Marine Corps, so long as they shall perform, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, or other superior officer, on the Capitol grounds or the President's grounds.

Marine band.

SEC. 1614. The Secretary of the Navy shall deduct from the pay due Deduction for each of the officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps at the rate of hospitals.

Lieutenant-colonel: for two horses.

Major: for two horses.

Captains and lieutenants, mounted: for two horses.

Adjutants and regimental quartermasters: for two horses.

SEC. 1272. Forage shall be allowed to officers only for horses authorized by law, and
actually kept by them in service when on duty and at the place where they are on
duty.

SEC. 1273. When any officer travels under orders, and is not furnished transportation Mileage.
by the Quartermaster's Department, or on a conveyance belonging to or chartered by
the United States, he shall be allowed ten cents a mile, and no more, for each mile actu-
ally traveled under such order, distances to be calculated according to the nearest
post-routes; and no payment shall be made to any officer except by a paymaster of
the Army.*

SEC. 1274. Officers retired from active service shall receive seventy-five per centum
of the pay of the rank upon which they are retired.

SEC. 1275. Officers wholly retired from the service shall be entitled to receive, upon their retirement, one year's pay and allowances of the highest rank held by them, whether by staff or regimental commission, at the time of their retirement.

SEC. 1278. The leader of the band stationed at the Military Academy shall receive seventy-five dollars a month.

SEC. 1279. The chief musicians of regiments shall receive sixty dollars a month and the allowances of a quartermaster-sergeant.

SEC. 1280. The monthly pay of the following enlisted men of the Army shall, during
their first term of enlistment, be as follows, with the contingent conditions thereto,
hereinafter provided:

Sergeant majors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty-three dollars.
Quartermaster-sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty-three dollars.
Principal musicians of artillery and infantry, twenty-two dollars."

Sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, seventeen dollars.

Corporals of artillery and infantry, fifteen dollars.

Musicians of artillery and infantry, thirteen dollars.

Privates of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, thirteen dollars.

Officers retired from active serv ice.

Wholly retired.

Leader of band at academy. Chief musician.

Pay of enlisted

men.

SEC. 1281. To the rates of pay stated in the preceding section one dollar per month Additional pay. shall be added for the third year of enlistment, one dollar more per month for the fourth year, and one dollar more per month for the fifth year, making in all three dollars' increase per month for the last year of the first enlistment of each enlisted man named in said section. But this increase shall be considered as retained pay, and shall not be paid to the soldier until his discharge from the service, and shall be forfeited unless he serves honestly and faithfully to the date of discharge.

Re-enlistment

SEC. 1282. All enlisted men mentioned in section twelve hundred and eighty, who, having been honorably discharged, have re-enlisted or shall re-enlist within one month pay. thereafter, shall, after five years' service, including their first enlistment, be paid at the rate allowed in said section to those serving in the fifth year of their first enlistment: Provided, That one dollar per month shall be retained from the pay of the reenlisted men, of whatever grade, named in section twelve hundred and eighty-one during the whole period of their re-enlistment, to be paid to the soldier on his discharge, but to be forfeited unless he shall have served honestly and faithfully to the date of discharge.

SEC. 1283. Enlisted men, now in the service, shall receive the rates of pay established in this chapter according to the length of their service.

SEC. 1284. Every soldier who, having been honorably discharged, re-enlists within one month thereafter, shall be further entitled, after five years' service, including his first enlistment to receive, for the period of five years next thereafter, two dollars per month in addition to the ordinary pay of his grade; and for each successive period of five years of service, so long as he shall remain continuously in the Army, a further sum of one dollar per month. The past continuous service, of soldiers now in the Army, shall be taken into account, and shall entitle such soldier to additional pay according to this rule; but services rendered prior to August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, shall in no case be accounted as more than one enlistment.

Service pay of men already in

service.

Re-enlistment.

Certificate of

SEC. 1285. A certificate of merit granted to a private soldier by the President for distinguished services shall entitle him to additional pay, at the rate of two dollars merit. per mouth, while he remains continuously in the service; and such certificate of merit granted to a private soldier who served in the war with Mexico shall entitle him to such additional pay, although he may not have remained continuously in the service. SEC. 1286. Non-commissioned officers who served in the war with Mexico, and have been recommended by the commanding officers of their regiments for promotion by sioned officers of brevet to the lowest grade of commissioned officer, but have not received such recom- Mexican war. mended promotion, shall be entitled to additional pay at the rate of two dollars per month, although they may not have remained continuously in the service.

SEC. 1287. When soldiers are detailed for employment as artificers or laborers in the construction of permanent military works, public roads, or other constant labor of not less than ten days' duration, they shall receive, in addition to their regular pay, the following compensation: Privates working as artificers, and non-commissioned officers employed as overseers of such work, not exceeding one overseer for twenty men, * Mileage not now allowed; only actual traveling expenses.

Non-com mis

Extra duty.

Rations of enlisted men.

Service on armed vessels.

During captiv

ity.

Travel-pay officers.

to

Travel-pay to soldiers.

Soldiers' pay not assignable. Rations.

Sugar and coffee.

twenty cents per month for every officer and marine, to be applied to the fund for Navy hospitals.

SEC. 1615. The non-commissioned officers, privates, and musicians of the Marine Corps shall, each, be entitled to receive one Navy ration daily.

SEC. 1616. Marines may be detached for service on board the armed vessels of the United States, and the President may detach and appoint

thirty-five cents per day, and privates employed as laborers, twenty cents per day. This allowance of extra pay shall not apply to the troops of the Ordnance Department. SEC. 1288. Every non-commissioned officer and private of the Regular Army, and every officer, non-commissioned officer, and private of any militia or volunteer corps in the service of the United States who is captured by the enemy, shall be entitled to receive during his captivity, notwithstanding the expiration of his term of service, the same pay, subsistence, and allowance to which he may be entitled while in the actual service of the United States; but this provision shall not be construed to entitle any prisoner of war of such militia corps to any pay or compensation after the date of his parole, except the traveling expenses allowed by law.

SEC. 1289. When an officer is honorably discharged from the service, he shall be allowed transportation and subsistence from the place of his discharge to the place of his residence at the time of his appointment, or to the place of his original muster into the service. The Government may furnish the same in kind, but in case it shall not do so, he shall be allowed travel-pay and commutation of subsistence, according to his rank, for such time as may be sufficient for him to travel from the place of discharge to the place of his residence, or original muster into service, computed at the rate of one day for every twenty miles.

SEC. 1290. When a soldier is honorably discharged from the service, he shall be allowed transportation and subsistence from the place of his discharge to the place of his enlistment, enrollment, or original muster into the service. The Government may furnish the same in kind, but in case it shall not do so, he shall be allowed travel-pay and commutation of subsistence for such time as may be sufficient for him to travel from the place of discharge to the place of his enlistment, enrollment, or original muster into the service, computed at the rate of one day for every twenty miles.

SEC. 1291. No assignment of pay by a non-commissioned officer or private, previous to his discharge, shall be valid.

SEC. 1293. Sergeants and corporals of ordnance shall be entitled to receive one ration and a half daily. Other enlisted men shall be entitled to receive one ration daily. SEC. 1294. For each ration of sugar and coffee not issued, nor commuted for the extract of coffee combined with milk and sugar, enlisted men shall be paid in money. [See § 1147, post.]

Clothing, pre- SEC. 1296. The President may prescribe the uniform of the Army and quantity and scribed by the kind of clothing which shall be issued annually to the troops of the United States. SEC. 1297. No allowance of clothing shall be made to sergeants of ordnance.

President.
None to ord-
nance-sergeants.
Gratuitous

clothing.

Deductions for

chased.

SEC. 1298. The Secretary of War may, on the recommendation of the Surgeon-General, order gratuitous issues of clothing to soldiers who have had contagious diseases. and to hospital attendants who have nursed them, to replace any articles of their cloth. ing destroyed by order of the proper medical officers to prevent contagion.

SEC. 1299. The amount due from any officer for rations purchased on credit, or for rations pur. any article designated by the inspectors-general of the Army and purchased on credit from commissaries of subsistence, shall be deducted from the payment made to such officer next after such purchase shall have been reported to the Paymaster-General. SEC. 1300. The amount due from any enlisted man for articles designated by the inspectors-general of the Army, and sold to him on credit by commissaries of subsistence, shall be deducted from the payment made to him next after such sale shall have been reported to the Paymaster-General.

For articles purchased.

For tobacco purchased.

Clothing allowances and deduc

tions.

For damage to arms.

For deficiencies.

Deposits of soldiers' savings.

SEC. 1301. The amount due from any enlisted man for tobacco sold to him at cost prices by the United States shall be deducted from his pay in the manner provided for the settlement of clothing accounts.

SEC. 1302. The money value of all clothing overdrawn by the soldier beyond his allowance shall be charged against him, every six months, on the muster-roll of his company, or on his final statements if sooner discharged, and he shall receive pay for such articles of clothing as have not been issued to him in any year, or which may be due to him at the time of his discharge, according to the annual estimated value thereof. The amount due him for clothing, when he draws less than his allowance, shall not be paid to him until his final discharge from the service.

SEC. 1303. The cost of repairs or damages doneto arms, equipments, or implements, shall be deducted from the pay of any officer or soldier in whose care or use the same were when such damages occurred, if said damages were occasioned by the abuse or negligence of said officer or soldier.

SEC. 1304. In case of deficiency of any article of military supplies, on final settlements of the accounts of any officer charged with the issue of the same, the value thereof shall be charged against the delinquent and deducted from his monthly pay, unless he shall show to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, by one or more depositions setting forth the circumstances of the case, that said deficiency was not occasioned by any fault on his part. And in case of damage to any military supplies, the value of such da:nage shall be charged against such officer and deducted from his monthly pay, unless he shall, in like manner, show that such damage was not occasioned by any fault on his part.

SEC. 1305. Any enlisted man of the Army may deposit his savings, in sums not less than five dollars, with any Army paymaster, who shall furnish him a deposit-book, in which shall be entered the name of the paymaster and of the soldier, and the amount, date, and place of such deposit. The money so deposited shall be accounted for in the same manner as other public funds, and shall pass to the credit of the appropriation for the pay of the Army, and shall not be subject to forfeiture by sentence of court martial, but shall be forfeited by desertion, and shall not be permitted to be paid until

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for service on said vessels, such of the officers of said corps as he may
deem necessary.

SEC. 1617. No officer of the Marine Corps shall exercise command over
any navy-yard or vessel of the United States.

SEC. 1618. The President may substitute marines for landsmen in the
Navy, as far as he may deem it for the good of the service.

Marine officers not to command navy-yards or vessels.

Marines substituted for landsmen.

SEC. 1619. The Marine Corps shall be liable to do duty in the forts and Duty on shore. garrisons of the United States, on the sea-coast, or any other duty on shore, as the President, at his discretion, may direct.

SEC. 1620. The President is authorized to prescribe such military Regulations. regulations for the discipline of the Marine Corps as he may deem expedient.

SEC. 1621. The Marine Corps shall, at all times, be subject to the laws Subject to laws and regulations established for the government of the Navy, except governing the when detached for service with the Army by order of the President; when serving Navy, except and when so detached they shall be subject to the rules and articles of with the Army.' war prescribed for the government of the Army.

RETIRED LIST-MARINE CORPS.

SEC. 1622. The commissioned officers of the Marine Corps shall be re- Title 15, Chap. 9. tired in like cases, in the same manner, and with the same relative conRetirement. ditions, in all respects, as are provided for officers of the Army, except as is otherwise provided in the next section.*

final payment on discharge, or to the heirs or representatives of a deceased soldier,
and that such deposit be exempt from liability for such soldier's debts: Provided,
That the Government shall be liable for the amount deposited to the person so de-
positing the same.

Interest on de

SEC. 1306. For any sums not less than fifty dollars so deposited for the period of six
months, or longer, the soldier, on his final discharge, shall be paid interest at the rate posits.
of four per centum per annum.

and

SEC. 1307. The system of deposits herein established shall be carried into execution Regulations for
under such regulations as may be established by the Secretary of War.
deposits.
SEC. 1308. The amounts of deposits and clothing-balances accumulating to the sol- Deposits
dier's credit, under sections thirteen hundred and two and thirteen hundred and five, clothing bal
shall, when payable to him upon his discharge, be paid out of the appropriations for ances, how pay.
"pay of the Army" for the then current fiscal year.
able.

*The following sections relate to retirement in the Army:
Sec.

1243. Retirement upon officer's own application.
1244. After forty-five years, or at the age of sixty.

two.

1245. For disability.

1246. Composition of retiring board.

1247. Oath of members.

1248. Powers and duties.

1249. Findings

1250. Revision by the President.

1251. Finding of disability by incident of service.

Sec.

1252. Disability not by an incident of service. 1253. Officers entitled to a hearing.

1254. Retired rank.

1255. Status of retired officers.

1256. Rights and liabilities.

1257. Vacancies by retirement.
1258. Number on the retired list.

1259. Assignment to duty.

1260. Detail as professor in a college.

SEC. 1243. When an officer has served forty consecutive years as a commissioned Title 14, Chap. 2.
officer, he shall, if he makes application therefor to the President, be retired from Retirement upon
active service and placed upon the retired list. When an officer has been thirty years officer's own ap-
in service, he may, upon his own application, in the discretion of the President, be so plication.
retired, and placed on the retired list.

SEC. 1244. When any officer has served forty-five years as a commissioned officer, or
is sixty-two years old, he may be retired from active service at the discretion of the
President.

SEC. 1245, When any officer has become incapable of performing the duties of his office, he shall be either retired from active service, or wholly retired from the service, by the President, as hereinafter provided.

After 45 years. or at the age of

62.

For disability.

Composition of

SEC. 1246. The Secretary of War, under the direction of the President, shall, from
time to time, assemble an Army retiring-board, consisting of not more than nine nor retiring-board.
less than five officers, two-fifths of whom shall be selected from the Medical Corps.
The board, excepting the officers selected from the Medical Corps, shall be composed,
as far as may be, of seniors in rank to the officer whose disability is inquired of.
SEC. 1247. The members of said board shall be sworn in every case to discharge
their duties honestly and impartially.

Oath of members.

Powers and du.

SEC. 1248. A retiring-board may inquire into and determine the facts touching the
nature and occasion of the disability of any officer who appears to be incapable of per- ties.
forming the duties of his office, and shall have such powers of a court-martial and of
a court of inquiry as may be necessary for that purpose.

SEC. 1249. When the board finds an officer incapacitated for active service, it shall Findings.
also find and report the cause which, in its judgment, has produced his incapacity,
and whether such cause is an incident of service.

SEC. 1250. The proceedings and decisions of the board shall be transmitted to the
Secretary of War, and shall be laid by him before the President for his approval or
dsiapproval and orders in the case.

Revision by the President.

Retiring-board, SEC. 1623. In case of an officer of the Marine Corps, the retiring-board how composed. shall be selected by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President. Two-fifths of the board shall be selected from the Medical Corps of the Navy, and the remainder shall be selected from officers of the Marine Corps, senior in rank, so far as may be, to the officer whose disability is to be inquired of.

Title 14, Chap. 1.

The ration.

Coffee and sugar commuted.

Sugar and coffee in kind.

Sales of tobacco.

Sec.

RATIONS.

SEC. 1146. Each ration shall consist of one pound and a quarter of beef or three-quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, and at the rate of ten pounds of coffee, fifteen pounds of sugar, two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four ounces of pepper, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles to every hundred rations. The President may make such alterations in the component parts of the ration as a due regard to the health and comfort of the Army and economy may require.

SEC. 1147. The Secretary of War may commute the ration of coffee and sugar for the extract of coffee combined with milk and sugar, if he shall believe such commutation to be conducive to the health and comfort of the Army, and not to be more expensive to the Government than the present ration; provided, the same shall be acceptable to the men. [See § 1294, p. 166.]

SEC. 1148. The ration of sugar and coffee, when issued in kind, shall, when the convenience of the service permits, be issued weekly.

SEC. 1149. Tobacco shall be furnished to the enlisted men by the commissaries of subsistence, at cost prices, exclusive of the cost of transportation, in such quantities as they may require, not exceeding sixteen ounces per month. [See § 1301, p. 166.]

MARINE HOSPITALS.

4585. Assessment of forty cents a month.
4586. Hospital dues of vessel sold abroad.
4801. Power to receive gifts in aid of marine hos.

pitals.

4802. Supervising surgeon of marine-hospital service.

Title 53, Chap. 5.
Assessment of

month.

Sec.

4803. Custody and appropriation of "fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen."

4804. Persons employed on canal-boats in the coasting-trade excluded.

4805. Foreign seamen admitted.

SEC. 4585. There shall be assessed and collected by the collectors of customs at the ports of the United States, from the master or owner of forty cents per every vessel of the United States arriving from a foreign port, or of every registered vessel employed in the coasting trade, and before such vessel shall be admitted to entry, the sum of forty cents per month for each and every seaman who shall have been employed on such vessel since she was last entered at any port of the United States; which sum such master or owner may collect and retain from the wages of such seamen. [See § 4803.]

Hospital-dues

of vessels abroad.

sold

Title 59, Chap. 1.

SEC. 4586. Whenever a sale or transfer of any vessel of the United States is made in a foreign port or water, the consular officer of the United States within whose consulate or district the same is made, or in whose hands the papers of such vessel are, is required to collect of the master or agent of such vessel all moneys that shall have become due to the United States by virtue of the preceding section, and shall remain unpaid at the time of such sale or transfer; and such consular officer shall retain possession of the papers of such vessel until such money shall have been paid as herein provided; and in default of such payment the sale or transfer shall be void, excepting as against the vendor.

SEC. 4801. The President is authorized to receive donations of real or personal property, in the name of the United States, for the erection Power to re- or support of hospitals for sick and disabled seamen.

ceive gifts in aid

of marine hos

pitals.

Finding of dis- SEC. 1251. When a retiring-board finds that an officer is incapacitated for active ability by an in- service, and that his incapacity is the result of an incident of service, and such decision cident of service. is approved by the President, said officer shall be retired from active service and placed on the list of retired officers.

service.

Disability not SEC. 1252. When the board finds that an officer is incapacitated for active service, by an incident of and that his incapacity is not the result of any incident of service, and its decision is approved by the President, the officer shall be retired from active service, or wholly retired from the service, as the President may determine. The names of officers wholly retired from the service shall be omitted from the Army Register.

Officers entitled to a hearing.

SEC. 1253. Except in cases where an officer may be retired by the President upon his own application, or by reason of his having served forty-five years, or of his

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