bilities to en

dollars per month: And provided alfo, That Isferior difa all inferior difabilities fhall entitle the per- title to proporfon fo difabled to receive an allowance tionate allow proportionate to the highest difability.

ances.

or children,

officer, who

wounds receiv

Sec. 15, And be it further enacted, That if any commiffioned officer in the military peace establishment of the United States, Provifion for -fhall, while in the fervice of the United the widow, States, die, by reafon of any wound received under 16, of in actual service of the United States, and commiffioned leave a widow, or if no widow, a child or dies from children under fixteen years of age, fuch ed in the ferwidow, or if no widow, fuch child or chil- vice of the dren fhall be entitled to and receive half United States. 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 cafe In cafe of the of the death or intermarriage of fuch widow, riage of the before the expiration of the faid term of five widow to enyears, the half pay, for the remainder of the of the chil time, fhall go to the child or children of dren: fuch deceafed officer: Provided always, with their That fuch half pay fhall ceafe on the deceafe deaths. of fuch child or children.

2

death or mar

ure the benefit

determinable

to the direc

with fureties,

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That Paymafter to the paymaster fhall perform the duties of act according his office, agreeably to the direction of the tions of the Prefident of the United States, for the time Prefident: being; and before he enters on the duties To give band, of the fame, fhall give bonds, with good for the faithful and fufficient fureties, in fuch fums as the difcharge of Prefident fhall direct, for the faithful dif- his office; charge of his faid office; and fhall take an To take an oath to execute the duties thereof with fide- oath of office; lity and it fhall, moreover, be his duty to appoint from the line, with the approbation of the Prefident of the United States, the

D.

To appoint certain pay

matters from

the Prefident's

Authorifes to

the line, with feveral paymafters to diftricts and affiftants approbation; prefcribed by this act; and he is hereby authorised to require the faid paymafters uff the faid require them to diftricts, and affiftants, to enter into to give bonds bonds, with good and fufficient furety, for. the faithful difcharge of their respective duties.

with fureties.

litary agents

prefcribed.

Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That Duties of mi- it fhall be the duty of the military agents, defignated by this act, to purchafe, receive, and forward to their proper deftination, all military ftores, and other articles for the troops in their refpective departments, and all goods and annuities for the Indians, which they may be directed to purchase, or which fhall be ordered into their care by the department of war. They fhall account with the department of war, annually, for all the public property which may pass through their hands, and all the monies which they may expend in discharge of the duties of their offices, refpectively previous to their enter ing on the duties of their offices, they, fhall give bonds, with fufficient fureties, in fuch fums as the Prefident of the United States fhall direct, for the faithful difcharge of the truft repofed in them: and fhall take an oath faithfully to perform the duties of their refpective offices.

Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That if any non-commiffioned officer, mufician or private, fhall defert the fervice of the United States, he fhall in addition to the penalties mentioned in the rules and articles of war, be liable to ferve, for and during fuch a period, as fhall, with the time he may have served previous to his defertion, amount to the full term of his enlistment

They may be hed, fapprehended after which enlisted.

tried and pun

the term for

Perfons concerned in procuring, or affifting, in the

defertion of

and fuch foldier fhall and may be tried by a court martial, and punished, although the term of his enliftment may have elapfed previous to his being apprehended or tried. Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That every perfon who fhall procure or entice a foldier in the fervice of the United States to defert, or who fhall purchase from any foldier, his arms, uniform clothing, or any foldiers or who part thereof; and every captain or com- fhall purchase manding officer of any fhip or veffel, who their uniform fhall enter on board fuch hip or veffel, as be fined or im one of his crew, knowing him to have de- prifoned at the ferted, or otherwife carry away any fuch certain courts. foldier, or fhall refufe to deliver him up to the orders of his commanding officer, fhall, upon legal conviction, be fined at the dif cretion of any court having cognizance of the fame, in any fum not exceeding three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned any term not exceeding one year.

clothing may

difcretion of

cers, musicians

Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That Oath to be every officer, non-commiffioned officer, mu- taken by offi fician and private, fhall take and fubfcribe and privates. the following oath or affirmation, to wit; "I, A. B. do folemnly fwear, or affirm, (as the cafe may be) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will ferve them honestly and faithfully against their enemies or oppofers, whomfoever; and that I will obferve and obey the orders of the Prefident of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles of war."

Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That whenever a general court martial fhall be

Ia

cafe of a

general court

partial the

allowance to

Prefident may ordered, the Prefident of the United States appoint a judge advocate; may appoint fome fit perfon to act as judge advocate, who fhall be allowed, in addition An additional to his other pay, one dollar and twenty-five cents for every day he fhall be neceffarily employed in the duties of the faid court; and in cafes where the President fhall not eral to appoint have made fuch appointment, the brigadierthe Prefident general or the prefident of the court may make the fame.

the judge advocate;

Brigadier gen.

in cafes that

does not.

Provifion to

tra expenses,

Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That commiffioned where any commiffioned officer fhall be officers for ex- obliged to incur any extra expenfe in travelin travelling to ling and fitting on general courts martial, and fitting on he fhall be allowed a reafonable compenfanartial. tion for fuch extra expenfe actually incurred, not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per day, to officers who are not entitled to forage, and not exceeding one dollar per day to fuch as fhall be entitled to forage.

general courts

Non-commissioned officers

refts for debts

Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That and privates to no non-commiffioned officer, mufician or be free from ar private fhall be arrested, or fubject to arrest, under 20 dol- or to be taken in execution for any debt unlars, contract- der the fum of twenty dollars, contracted itment, and before enliftment, nor for any debt contractfor all while in ed after enliftment.

ed before en

Service.

officers and

Sec. 24. And be it further enacted, That whenever any officer or foldier fhall be dif charged from the fervice, except by way of Allowance to punishment for any offence, he fhall be allowed his pay and rations, or an equivalent in money, for fuch term of time as fhall be rept by way of fufficient for him to travel from the place of difcharge to the place of his refidence, computing at the rate of twenty miles to a

foldiers, upon

being oilcharged ex

allowance.te

this act,

Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That Additional to each commiffioned officer, who fhall be officers dederanged by virtue of this act, there fhall ranged by be allowed and paid, in addition to the pay and emoluments to which they will be entitled by law at the time of their dischargeto each officer whofe term of fervice in any military corps of the United States fhall not have exceeded three years, three months pay; to all other officers, fo deranged, one month's pay of their grades, refpectively, for each year of past fervice in the army of the United States, or in any regiment or corps now or formerly in the fervice thereof.

ize

Sec. 26. And be it further enacted, That Prefident the Prefident of the United States is hereby e a corps authorised and empowered, when he fhall of engindeem it expedient, to organize and establish cers; a corps of engineers, to confift of one en- of whom it gineer, with the pay, rank and emoluments thall confift; of a major; two affiftant engineers, with the pay, rank and emoluments of captains; two other affiftant engineers, with the pay, rank and emoluments of firft lieutenants; two other affiftant engineers, with the pay, rank and emoluments of fecond lieutenants; and ten cadets, with the pay of fixteen dollars Pay of caper month, and two rations per day: and the dets; Prefident of the United States is, in like Prefidont manner, authorized, when he shall deem it may make proper, to make fuch promotions in the faid therein corps, with a view to particular merit, and without regard to rank, fo as not to exceed tions. one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, two majors, four captains, four firft lieutenants, four fecond lieutenants, and fo as that the number of the whole corps fhall, at no time, exceed twenty officers and cadets.

promotions

within cer

tain limita