kind, or any compensation or commutation beyond their stipu lated pay in money, except quarters actually provided for and occupied by such officers.

SEC. 3. That the office of commissary-general' of purchases, sometimes called commissary of purchases, shall be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and the duties thereof shall hereafter be performed by the officers of the quartermaster's department, with such of the officers and clerks now attached to the purchasing department as shall be authorized by the Secretary of War, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the said secretary, under the sanction of the President of the United States.

SEC. 4. That, within one month after the passage of this act, the offices of one inspector-general,' of three paymasters, two surgeons, and ten assistant surgeons of the army shall be abolished, and that number of paymasters, surgeons, and assistant surgeons shall be discharged by the President, and they shall be allowed three months' pay, in addition to the pay and emoluments to which they may be entitled at the time of their discharge.

SEC. 5. That a competent person may be employed by the ordnance bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of War, for such time as may be necessary, to superintend the manufacture of iron cannon at the several foundries where such cannon may be made under contracts with the United States, whose pay and emoluments shall not exceed those of a major of ordnance during the time he shall be so employed, to be paid out of the appropriations for armament of fortifications; and for the services rendered in such superintendence since the first day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, under the authority of the War Department, the same compensation shall be allowed as herein provided.

SEC. 6. That the rations authorized to be allowed to a brigadier while commander-in-chief, and to each officer while commanding a separate post, by the acts of March third, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, and to the commanding officers of each separate

1 Established by the 2 March, 1821, chap. 13, sec. 9.

2 The two inspectors-general established by the 2 March, 1821, chap. 13, vol. 3, p. 615-616, are restored by the 12 Jan. 1846, chap. 3, and two more added by sec. 4, chap. 57, 6 Aug. 1861, and five assistants, by chap. 42, 3 Aug. 1861.

3 The fourth section of which is as follows:-"That to the brigadier, while commander-in-chief, and to each officer while commanding a separate post, there shall be allowed twice the number of rations to which they would otherwise be entitled;"' but that section (4) seems clearly repealed by the 16 March, 1802, chap. 9, sec. 5, and, if not, certainly by this section (6).

post, by the act' of March sixteen, eighteen hundred and two, shall hereafter be allowed to the following officers, and no others:2 to the major-general commanding the army, and to every officer commanding in chief a separate army, actually in the field; to the generals commanding the eastern and western geographical divisions; to the colonels or other officers commanding military geographical departments; to the commandant of each permanent or fixed post, garrisoned with troops, including the superintendent of the military academy at West Point, who is regarded as the commandant of that post.3

[Approved, August 23, 1842.]

CHAPTER 191.-Approved, August 23, 1842.—Vol. 5, p. 521. An Act to amend the Acts of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows.

That the marriage' of the widow, after the death of her husband, for whose services she claims a pension under the act of the seventh July," eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall be no bar to the claim of such widow to the benefit of that act, she being a widow at the time she makes application for a pension.

CHAPTER 202.-Approved, August 26, 1842.-Vol. 5, p. 523.

An Act legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the Department and officers of the Government, and for other purposes.

11. Report of clerks and other persons employed, to be made annually to Congress. 23. Surplus for one object may be applied to supply a deficiency for another, except newspapers and periodicals. 25. Accounts of no commission, except courts-martial, &c., to be paid without a special appropriation.

SEC. 11. That it shall be the duty of the Secretaries of * * *

1 Chap. 9, sec. 5.

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2 And the adjutant and quartermaster general, by 3 March, 1847, chap. 61, sec. 20. 3 Words in italics repealed by sec. 19, chap. 42, 3 Aug. 1861. On marriage, pension to cease again: 2 Feb. 1848.

5 Chap. 189.

6 This supplies 21 April, 1806, chap. 41, sec. 5, and 20 April, 1818, chap. 87, sec. 9.

War, ***, to report to Congress, at the beginning of each year, the names of the clerks and other persons that have been employed, respectively, during the preceding year, or any part thereof, in their respective departments and offices, together with the time that each clerk or other person was actually employed, and the sums paid to each; and, also, whether they have been usefully employed, whether the services of any of them can be dispensed with without detriment to the public service, and whether the removal of any individuals, and the appointment of others in their stead, is required for the better dispatch of business; and no greater allowance shall be made to any such clerk, or other person, than is or may be authorized by law, except to watchmen and messengers, for any labor or services required of them beyond the particular duties of their respective stations, rendered at such times as does not interfere with the performance of their regular duties.

SEC. 23. That in case the sum appropriated for any object should be found more than sufficient to meet the expense thereby contemplated, the surplus may be applied, under the direction of the head of the proper department, to supply the deficiency of any other item in the same department or office: Provided, That the expenditure for newspapers and periodicals shall not exceed the amount specifically appropriated to that object by this act.

SEC. 25. That it shall not, at any time hereafter, be lawful for any accounting or disbursing officer of the Government to allow or pay any account or charge whatever, growing out of, or in any way connected with, any commission or inquiry, except courts-martial or courts of inquiry in the military or naval service of the United States, until special appropriations shall have been made by law to pay such accounts and charges: Provided, That this shall not extend to the contingent fund connected with the foreign intercourse of the Government placed at the disposal of the President of the United States.

[Approved, August 26, 1842.]

1 Re-enacted 24 Dec. 1842, chap. 2, sec. 2, and in subsequent appropriation acts.

RESOLUTION 8.-Approved, August 16, 1842.—Vol. 5, p. 584.

A Resolution declarative of the Pension Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

That the benefits of the act1 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," approved the seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall not be withheld from any widow whose husband died after the passage of the act of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and before the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirtyeight, if otherwise entitled to the same.

CHAPTER 52.-Approved, March 1, 1843.-Vol. 5, p. 604.

An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army and of the Military Academy, &c. &c., for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

2. Appropriation, &c., for the military academy. Provisoes relative to the appointment of cadets.2

SEC. 2. **** Provided, That hereafter, in all cases of appointments of cadets to the West Point Academy, the individual selected shall be an actual resident of the congressional district of the state or territory, or District of Columbia, from which the appointment purports to be made: And provided, further, That the number of cadets by appointments hereafter to be made, shall be limited to the number of the representatives and delegates in Congress, and one for the District of Columbia, and that each congressional and territorial district, and District of Columbia, shall be entitled to have one cadet at said academy: Provided, That nothing in this section shall prevent the appointment of an additional number of cadets, not exceeding ten, to be appointed at large, without being confined to a selection by congressional districts.

1 Chap. 189.

2 And see sec. 8, chap. 42, 3 Aug. 1861, for conditions of readmission after discharge, oath, &c., post.

CHAPTER 102.-Approved, March 3, 1843.-Vol. 5, p. 647.

An Act granting a pension to certain Revolutionary soldiers.

[Pensions to widows' under the acts of 1832, chap. 126, 1838, chap. 189, 1842, chap. 191, and Res. 8, continued for one year.2]

CHAPTER 11.-Approved, April 4, 1844.—Vol. 5, p. 654.

An Act to repeal so much of the Act approved the twenty-third of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, as requires the second regiment of dragoons to be converted into a regiment of riflemen after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.

That so much of the act entitled "An act respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes," approved the 23d day of August, 1842,3 as requires the second regiment of dragoons to be converted into a regiment of riflemen after the 4th day of March, 1843, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

SEC. 2. That the present regiment of riflemen, formerly the second regiment of dragoons, shall, as soon as it can be effected after the passage of this act, be remounted, and called the second regiment of dragoons, and shall in all things be governed by the same organization and regulations as are provided by the act raising the first regiment of dragoons, entitled “An act for the more perfect defence of the frontier," approved the 2d day of March, 1833,' and shall, in all respects, be placed upon the same footing as the said first regiment of dragoons.

CHAPTER 15.-Approved, April 30, 1844.—Vol. 5, p. 656.

An Act making appropriations for the payment of Revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

That no pension shall be hereafter granted to a widows for the same time that her husband received one; and that no person in the army, navy, or marine corps shall be allowed to draw both a pension as an invalid and the pay of his rank or station in the service, unless the alleged disability for which the pension was granted be such as to have occasioned his employment in a lower grade, or in some civil branch of the service.

1 Or who have become such: see res. No. 6, 3 March, 1851.

2 And four years more, by the 17 June, 1844, chap. 102, vol. 5, p. 680. 3 Chap. 186.

4 Chap. 76.

5 Unless her application shall have been filed, &c.: 23 Jan. 1845, res. 1, vol.

p. 796.