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and restrictions now provided by law: Provided, also, That so much of any law as restricts the number of workmen in the armories of the United States to one hundred men, be, and the same hereby is, repealed.

SEC. 3. That all the arms procured in virtue of this act shall be transmitted to the several states composing this union, and territories thereof, to each state and territory, respectively, in proportion to the number of the effective militia in each state and territory, and by each state and territory to be distributed to the militia in such state and territory, under such rules and regulations as shall be by law prescribed by the legislature of each state and territory.

[Approved, April 23, 1808.]

CHAPTER 58.-Approved, April 25, 1808.-Vol. 2, p. 496.

An Act concerning invalid pensioners.

3. Secretary of war to place on pension list persons disabled in the Revolution. 4. And those disabled in service. 5. To be paid as prescribed.

SEC. 3. That the secretary at war be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension list of the United States, all persons who now remain on the pension list of any of the states, and who were placed on the same in consequence of disability occasioned by known wounds received during the revolutionary war, whether such person or persons served in the land or sea service of the forces of the United States, or of any particular state, in the regular corps, or the militia, or as volunteers: Provided, That in no case the pensions allowed to such person or persons shall exceed the sums specified by the sixth section of an act intituled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war," passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six: And Provided, That in every case where application shall be made, to have such person or persons plaeed on the pension list of the United States, under this law, satisfac

The 2 April, 1794, chap. 14, ante, and the 7 May, 1800, chap. 46, ante.
See 2 April, 1794, chap. 14, ante.

3 According to representation in Congress, by sec. 7, chap. 169, 3 March, 1835. 4 Now of the Interior.

5 Chap. 25, ante.

tory documents from the proper officers of the state, shall be adduced to establish the fact of such person or persons having been placed on the state pension list in consequence of disability occasioned by known wounds received during the revolutionary war.

SEC. 4. That any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, who has been wounded or disabled since the revolutionary war, while in the line of his duty, in the actual service of the United States, whether he belong to the military establishment, or the militia, or any volunteer corps, called into service under the authority of the United States, may be placed on the pension list of the United States, at such rate of compensation, and under such regulations, as are prescribed by the act intituled "An act' to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war," passed April the tenth, one thousand eight hundred and six.

SEC. 5. That the pensioners becoming such in virtue of this act, shall be paid in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid, who have heretofore been placed on the pension list of the United States, under such restrictions and regulations in all respects, as are prescribed by the laws of the United States, in such cases provided.

[Approved, April 25, 1808.]

CHAPTER 28.-Approved, March 3, 1809.-Vol. 2, p. 535.

An Act further to amend the several acts3 for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.

1. Warrants charged to appropriations.

Payments charged to appropriations. Separate accounts reported to Congress. The President, in the recess, may order appropriation for one to be applied to another branch of expenditure, and laid before Congress. 2. Comptroller to settle accounts. Annual statement of delinquencies to Congress by him. 3. No special agents for purchases and contracts. Appointments during the recess of agents; number and compensation of. Not over one per cent. 4. Bonds of. To deposit public money in banks. 5. Purchases for supplies, how made. Annual statement of, made to Congress.

1 Chap. 25, ante; and see chap. 166, 14 July, 1862.

2 And at the seat of government, if no pension agents have been appointed, by the 7 January, 1809, chap. 4.

3 See the end of this act for list of acts on the subject of this chapter.

and restrictions now provided by law: Provided, also, That so much of any law as restricts the number of workmen in the armories of the United States to one hundred men, be, and the same hereby is, repealed.

SEC. 3. That all the arms procured in virtue of this act shall be transmitted to the several states composing this union, and ter ritories thereof, to each state and territory, respectively, in proportion to the number of the effective militia in each state and territory, and by each state and territory to be distributed to the militia in such state and territory, under such rules and regulations as shall be by law prescribed by the legislature of each state and territory.

[Approved, April 23, 1808.]

CHAPTER 58.-Approved, April 25, 1808.-Vol. 2, p. 496. An Act concerning invalid pensioners.

3. Secretary of war to place on pension list persons disabled in the Revolution. 4. And those disabled in service. 5. To be paid as prescribed.

SEC. 3. That the secretary at war be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension list of the United States, all persons who now remain on the pension list of any of the states, and who were placed on the same in consequence of disability occasioned by known wounds received during the revolutionary war, whether such person or persons served in the land or sea service of the forces of the United States, or of any particular state, in the regular corps, or the militia, or as volunteers: Provided, That in no case the pensions allowed to such person or persons shall exceed the sums specified by the sixth section of an act intituled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war," passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six: And Provided, That in every case where application shall be made, to have such person or persons placed on the pension list of the United States, under this law, satisfac

The 2 April, 1794, chap. 14, ante, and the 7 May, 1800, chap. 46, ante.
See 2 April, 1794, chap. 14, ante.

3 According to representation in Congress, by sec. 7, chap. 169, 3 March, 1835.
4 Now of the Interior.
5 Chap. 25, ante.

tory documents from the proper officers of the state, shall be adduced to establish the fact of such person or persons having been placed on the state pension list in consequence of disability occasioned by known wounds received during the revolutionary war.

Sic. 4. That any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, who has been wounded or disabled since the revolutionary war, while in the line of his duty, in the actual service of the United States, whether he belong to the military establishment, or the militia, or any volunteer corps, called into service under the authority of the United States, may be placed on the pension list of the United States, at such rate of compensation, and under such regulations, as are prescribed by the act intituled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war," passed April the tenth, one thousand eight hundred and six.

Sic 5. That the pensioners becoming such in virtue of this act, shall be paid in the same manner as invalid pensioners are pard, who have heretofore been placed on the pension list of the United States, under such restrictions and regulations in all respects, as are prescribed by the laws of the United States, in such cases provided.

[Approved, April 25, 1808.]

CHAPTER 28-Approved, March 3, 1809.-Vol. 2, p. 535.

As Art further to amend the several acted for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.

1 Warrants charged to appropriations. Payments charged to appropriations, Meș arate Berounts reported to Congress. The President, in the recess, mav order appropriation for one to be applied to another branch of expenditure, and laid bet re Congress. 2. Comptroiler to settle accounts. Annual statement of delinquen, es to Congress by him. 3. No special agents for purchases and contracts. Art intments during the recess of agents; number and compensation of. Not over one per cent. 4. Bonds of. To deposit publie money in banks. 5. Pur chases for supplies, how made. Annual statement of, made to Congress

Chap. 25 ante; and see chap. 166, 14 July, 1862.

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That all warrants drawn by the secretary of the treasury, or of war, or of the navy, upon the treasurer of the United States, shall specify the particular appropriation or appropriations to which the same should be charged: the moneys paid by virtue of such warrants shall, in conformity therewith, be charged to such appropriation or appropriations, in the books kept in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, in the case of warrants drawn by the secretary of the treasury, and in the books of the accountants of the war or navy department respectively, in the case of warrants drawn by the secretary of war, or by the secretary of the navy; and the officers, agents, or other persons, who may be receivers of public moneys, shall render distinct accounts of the application of such moneys according to the appropriation or appropriations under which the same shall have been drawn, and the secretary of war and of the navy shall, on the first day of January, in each and every year, severally report to Congress a distinct account of the expenditure and application of all such sums of money as may, prior to the thirtieth day of September preceding, have been by them respectively drawn from the treasury in virtue of the appropriation law of the preceding year, and the sums appropriated by law for each branch of expenditure in the several departments shall be solely applied to the objects for which they are respectively appropriated, and to no other: Provided, nevertheless, That during the recess of Congress, the President of the United States may,' and he is hereby authorized, on the application of the secretary of the proper department, and not otherwise, to direct, if in his opinion necessary for the public service, that a portion of the moneys appropriated for a particular branch of expenditure in that department, be applied to another branch of expenditure in the same department, in which case a special account of the moneys thus transferred, and of their application, shall be laid before Congress during the first week of their next ensuing session.

1 But appropriations for one year not to be transferred in another year to a different branch of expenditure, by the 1 May, 1820, chap. 52, sec. 4.

The power of transfer of appropriations is repealed, as to the navy department, by the 31 Aug. 1842, chap. 286, sec. 11, and by the 31 Aug. 1852, chap. 109, sec. 2; and, as to the war department, by the 31 Aug. 1852, chap. 110, sec. 2, except as to forage, medical and hospital and quartermaster's departments.

And see, for transfers after two years to the surplus fund, the 31 Aug. 1852, chap. 08, sec. 10.

2 Except as set forth in the 3 March, 1817, chap. 96, or the 1 March, 1820, chap. 52, sec. 4; and see 1 May, 1820, chap. 52, sec. 4, and the 6 April, 1838, chap. 54, sec. 1.

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