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MILITARY LAWS,  ^T/^
AND
RULES AND REGULATIONS
THE ARMY    %«,





     OF        . ; . -*
THE UNITED STATES.
PRINTED FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT:
WASHINGTON:





 Uovember, 1814. 


W. Cooper, Printer, 
INDEX.
                                 Art. war. Pag*.

Abandoning, garrison or guard     52 a 59 a
Absence, without leave    -   21 o 41 a 42 a
       from pai ade    -      -         ^a
       from guard or platoon     -     50 a
Absentees at musters   -       -       -  I3 a
Abstracts of contractors  -                   249
Accounts, specie and others    -       -        H«
Accused persons   -      -      -     ^°
         rights of      -  ■     -       -  90 a
Adjutant and inspector general    -      -    1°9
Adjutants general     -      -      -      -  110
          duties of        -      -      -    176
Advance of pay       -                  1"0,   •
Aids-de-camp      -                         **•'
Alarms, false  -      -      -      "   ^a
Allowance, to  members of courts martial    66, 198
           to discharged soldiers                 67
           to discharged nrlitia      -      -  \dl
           of quarters     -                   *"*
           of fuel      -       -       -      '   19?
           of forage       -                   1"J
           of straw     -       -       -      -196
           of stationery    -                   1"
           of transportation   -       -      -   197
           for horses      -                   201
 Ammunition, wasted or sold   -           37 a
              returns      -                   208
              waggons       -       -     204,206
 Annual estimates   -      -       -       200,209
 Apothecary general, his  salary       -     -   11*
                        duties    •      -      -*" 
 iv                   INDEX.

 Armorers      -      -      -      -          76
 Arms, penalty for selling, &c.    -       38 a
       captains accountable for       -   40 a
       regulations relative to the distribution of   21S
       lost or damaged        -      -      -  217
 Arrears of pay, not to exceed two months        63
 Arrest, and breach of      -      -      77 a
       its term limited         -       -   79 a
       soldieis not liable to, for debt      -     101
 Arsenals, keepe.s of, to make returns -       -   98
 Articles of war, to be signed    -      -la
               to be read to recruits      10 a
               to be read to t: oops      101 a
 Artificers, corps of      -       -       -       -   76
          of ordnance     -       -         87,  135
          of quartermaster general,   -       -  113
 Artillery, 1st regiment                          4S
          1st, 2d and 3d do. consolidated        129
          carriages,       -      191,204,207,208
          distribution of     -       -       -  205
         returns of senior officer        -      208
Assistant apothecaries        -       -       -   132
        deputy  commissaries of ordnance       112
        district paymasters     -       -   46,  137
Baggage	-	197,	198,199
Balls, cannon	-	-	205
Barrack masters	-	-	94,112
Barracks	-	-	191,201
Blacksmiths	-	.	76,87
Boat builders	-	-	76
Boats	-	-	- 190
Bombardiers	-	.	79
Books, blank. See	Stationery.		
Bounty to recruits for five ycai9		.	- 12*
for the war	.	102,	122, 124
to heirs of soldiers killed			62
 
INDEX.                  >
Boys -	-	201
Branded horses	-	- 183
Brevet rank -	61	a 99,171
Bribe for a muster	-	16 a
Bridges -	-	188
Brigade inspectors	-	56
quartermasters	-	ib.
majors	-	60
their pay	-	92
■Brigadier general, one	-	46
two additional	-	56
five do.	-	60
two tio.	-	98
six do.	-	- 10*
Cadets	.	51,80
Caissons -	-	206
Camp equipage	-	197
Candles -	-	61,95
Cannon and shot	-	205
Captured stores        -      -        58 a
Carpenters         ■*      •      •      -     76
Carriage makers       ...         87
Carts.....190
Cast horses      ....       183
Cavalry.  See Light Dragoons.
Certificates, false   -       -       -    14 a
Challenges      -      -      -    25 a 28 a
          of members of a court   -    71a
Chaplains       ...      -    67,166
          fined for absence         -      4 a
Charges       -      -      -      - 77 a
        for offences two years since    88 a
Children        -                            204
        of officers deceased      -      -     64
Citizenship necessary for appointments       -  S3
                      A2 
VI
INDEX.
 Civil authority    •      -      -       33 a
             cannot arrest a soldier for debt      101
 Clerks of district paymasters      -       -       92
       of quartermaster general and  commis-
          sary gene: al     -      -       -   72, 95
       of superintendent general of supplies.    119
 Clothing, president to prescribe   -       -      131
          returns of          -      -      -   221
 Commissaiy general of 01 dnance               8T
       rank, pav, &c. of him and assistants  -   88
       duties   .       -      .       89, 111, 180
       assistant deputies   -      -       -      112
 Commissary general of purchases, his
         duties    ...     70, 94,219
       bonds of him and his deputies       -      71
       to account     -      -       .      -  116
       clerks                                 72
       deputies       -      »       .      -   76
 Commissaiies, special     -      -        120,252
 Commodores,  saluted         -       -      -  174
 Company  -      -       -      -96, 103, 129
 Complaints  of inferiors       -      34 a 35 a
 Compliments by the troops     -     -      173
 Conductors of artillery       -      -       74,129
           of quartermasters   -       -       189
 Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gen-
    tleman       -      .     .       83 a
 Confidential reports  ....   J85
 Confinement     -      -      .        78 a
            its term limited       -    79 a
            o. militia   -                    154
 Connivance of hiring duty  -      -   48 a
 Contempt of officers of government       5 a
          of commanding officer   .     6 a
          of court      -       .        76 a
Corn        -             J      .      .   195
Corporeal punishment  ...        95 
INDEX.
vu
Corresponding with an enemy      •    57 a
Countersign     -      -      -        53«
Courts martial, general....mem-
                 bers      -   64 a 68 a 75 a
               ordered by whom    -    65 a
               hours of session         75 a
               expenses  on attending   -   66, 198
               regimental and garrison 66 a
               their powers        -    67 a
               of militia       -     97 a 154, 162
Courts of inquiry   -       -       91 a 92 a
Cowardice       -       -      -   52 a 85 a
Crimes....capital in civil laws        -    33 a
         not capital      -      -   66 a 99 a

Damage, of public property, arms,
    &.c.     -      -       -      36 a 40 a
Death, sentence of       -      -      65 a
       requires two thirds of a court     87 a
Debts of soldiers    .      -      -      -    101
Depositions      -       -              74 a   165
Deputy commissaries       -      -     -     76
Deputy paymaster general                      99
Deseition    ....   20 a 64, 256
Details of service        -      -       -       177
Disabilities in the service    -      -      63, 159
Discharge of soldiers    -      -      11 a 67, 250
Dismissal of officers        -      11 a 65 a   67
Disobedience of orders   -      -    9 a 27 a
Distiibution of ordnance    -                 205
District paymasters       .      .      91,137,251
        to give bond        -      -   50, 92, 138
        their clerks      -                      92
Divine service    -       -      -       -  2 a
Division of artillery        -                 205
Drafts....for money       -      -       -       190
        militia      .      -      -     •    261 
-	179
96 a	
.	93
45 a	
25 a 26 a 28 a	
-	177
47 a	
via                INDEX.


Dragoons.  See Light Dragoom.
Drill
Drivers
       of light artillery  -
Drunkenness on duty
Duelling  -
Duty by detail
     of soldiers   -

Effects....of deceased officers      -    94 a
           of soldiers    -      -       95 a
Embezzlement     -      -  36 a 39 a 85 a
Encamping       -       -      -      -      185
Enemy....relieving  -      -           56 a
         corresponding with    -       57 a
         stores of          -           58 a
Engineers        -      -       -       63 a
         corps of          -       -        51,78
         artifices and privates                 53
         See Topographical Engineers.
Enlistment, twice        -       -       22 a
          for five years     ...  124
          for the war    -       -    102, 122, 124
          of minors        -      -     104,259
          of militia     ...      104
Enticing to desert    -      -      -   23 a   65
Escape of prisoners      -       -       81 a
Estimates....of quartermasters       -      -  206
           of ordnance department     -      209
           of hospital department   -      -  225
Evidence....oath of       -       -       73 a
           by deposition     -      -   74 a  165*

False alarms      -      -       .       49 a
      certificates      -      -          14 a
      musters    -      -       •   15 a 17 a
      retnrns         -      -      -   18 a 
INDEX.
Farriers.....97,130
Fines        -      -      -          67 a
     of militia    -      -      -    154, 156, 162
Flying artillery.  See Light Artillery
Forage    -      -           48,57,61, 122, 195
       of light dragoons     -      -          251
Forage masters   ...      -   74,112
Forcing safeguard    -      -          55 a
Forges    ..---      206
Fraud       -      -      -      -   85 a
Fuel.....192
Furloughs   -      -      -      -   12 a  259
General courts martial. See Courts.			
General staff -		-	109
duties	-	.	111
relative rank		.	171
Governors saluted	-	-	173
Guardian or parent. See Minors.			
Guards designated		-	184
posted	t	-	185
shall prevent duels		26 a	
absence from	-	50 a	
abandoning		52 at	
shall receive prisoners	-	80 a	
accountable for prisoners		81 a	
shall report them	•	82 a	
Half pay -		.	65
Half yearly returns -	-	90, 180	,22a
of horses and oxen		-	189
of medicines and of sick		.	225
Half yearly, confidential reports		* .*	185
muster rolls	*		182
Harboring an enemy - «		56 a	
deserters -	-	-	65
Harness makers		-	715
 
x                 ItfDEX.
Hay -	-	-	195
Hired persons	-	96 a	
Hi: ing duty ...	-	47 a	
Horses ...	183,190		,251
Hospital department	-	-	225
stewards	61,226,230		,248
surgeons,	-	117	,227
surgeons' mates	.		229
House carpenters	.	.	76
Howitze. s	-		206
Imprisonment	.	67 a	
of militia	.		154
Infant y ...	.	-	60
company	.		96
19 regiments	.	.	105
for the defence of the sea board			122
Ink	.		200
Inspecting parades	-	.	184
Inspection oi powder	-		204
returns	.	.	183
Inspectors gene: al	.		109
their duties	.	.	181
Inst; uction of tro»ps	.		179
Invalid list	-	-	63
Journal of an army	. m		224
Judge advocates	.	.	66
their duties	- 69 a	90 a	
pro tempore	-	-	50
Keepers of arsenals.  See Military Store
    keepers.

Laboratories    ....   203
Laboratory stores      ...      208
Laborers     -      .     .     76,87,113,135 
                    INDEX.                  xi


Land     -      -      -      -           62, 83
Light artillery....regiment   ...     55
                when mounted        -     68, 69
                drivers      -       .            93
                forges  ...        206
Light dragoons      ...   55,97,130
              troop     -      -          97, 130
Loss of arms, &.c.   -      ■       38 a 40 a

Magazines    ....   207,208
Major generals....two        -       -            6&
                six additional  -      -        108
Malt liquor   -                                 54
Marches        ....        184
        journals of         ...    224
        disorders and abuses on    32 a 54 a
Marine officers  -      -      -   62 a 68 a
Markets     -       -      -       -       -    184
Marshals        -      -      -      -        155
Masons      .....     76
Mechanics      -      -      -  76,87,113,135
Medical department        -                  225
Medicine  chests        ...        226
Medicines....list of, to be purchased   -       -    245
Menacing words or gestures    -       76 a   164
Military academy    -      -       -       -     51
        correspondence        -      -        180
        establishment  -      -      44,55,129
        storekeepers and stores       116,  119, 189
Militia, 62 a 97 a  145, 150, 151, 156, 158,  161, 162
        its pay   ....        158
        rank of its officers   -       -    98 a
        may enlist       -      -      -        104
        rules for drafts of           -       -    261
Minors.....104,259
Misapplication of public property   -    36 a
                       money  -      - 39 a 
xn                  INDEX.
Misbehavior before an enemy       -    52 a
Monthly report....of sick and wounded, form of  235
                 do.  in general hospital do.    241
Monthly returns     -      -                 180
Monthly summary statements....of all monies    118
                  of quartermasters       -    190
                  of commissaiies     -       220
Morning report... of sick, &c. form of     •    237
Music for recruiting     ...       256
Musters      -      -       -        168, 182,259
        absentees from  -      *        13 a
        when false  -      -      15 a 17 a
        bribe for        -      -        16 a
Muster rolls         -       -      -       -    182
Mute prisoners  -      -      -        70 a
Mutiny      -      -       -      -      7 a
       not suppressing or informing of   8 a

Navy officers saluted       ...    174
Nurses  .....   225,248

Oaths....profane     -       -      -      3 a
         of recruits     -      -        10a  256
         of members of court martial    69 a
         of judge advocates     -   69 a 93 a
         of members of courts of inquiry  93 a
         of witnesses      -       .     73 a
         of quartermasters      -      -        70
Oats         -      -      -       -       -    195
Office rent      ....        93
Officers travelling, to report themselves     -    250
Ordnance department    -      -      -   87,203
         See Commissary and Artillery.
Oxen    .-.„..       190

Paper       -...._    199
Parades, inspected              .      -        1#* 
INDEX.
&HI
Parades, absence from      -      •    44 a
Parent or guardian.  See Minors.
Parole              -      .      -    53 a
Pay of the army           46, 57, 61, 98, 100, 129
     of cadets    ....        51
     of light dragoons       -       .         58,97
     arrears limited     -                      63
     commencement and continuance   67, 114, 172
     of militia       -       -       .       -    158
     ofvolunteets       -      .      .       155
Paymaster of the army      -                   4t>
           duty  -      -             -   46, 137
           See Deputy and District.
Peace establishment.  See Military Ms-
     tab 'iskment.
Pension list
Physician and surgeon general
          duties
Plans of military positions   -
Platoon, absence from
Plundei or pillage    -      •
Police   ...
Post, abandoning
     sentinel quitting
Postage      ...
Powder
Premium for recruiting
President of the  United  States, saluted
Prisoners    -
         to be reported
Professors  of military academy
Promotion
Provoking speeches  -      •
Provost marshal          •
Punishment, corporeal
Purchases
Purchasing department      *
-	63
112,	135
.	225
-	22-*
50 a	
52 a	
•	184
52 a	
46 a	
72,	114
	204
-	104
173,	175
-	184
82 a	184
-	79
- 133	172
24 a	
9 a 81 a	
-	93
118, 190,	219
-	219
 
XIV
INDEX.
Purchasing a soldier's arms    -      -       165
Quarrels - - - -	27 a	
Quarterly accounts ...	117	190
of specie -	-	118
of pui chases -		221
Quarterly report from the director to the		
physician and surgeon		
geneial, form of -	-	242
of the medical staff		243
Quarterly returns....of cast horses	.	183
of hospital stores and		
furniture, form of	•	240
of medicines, &c. form of		239
of ordnance stores	-	208
Quartermasters general ...	94	109
their duties	69	, 187
to give bonds		95
to account	-	116
to make returns		117
to appoint aitificers, &c.	-	113
clerks ...		72
Quartermasters, regimental....to account	.	116
their clothing returns		221
their provision returns	-	249
Quarters ....		191
Quills ....	-	200
Rangers ....		141
Rank of regiments ...	170	178
of officers 27 a 61 a 62 a 98	a 170	178
Ration -	54, 61, 67	
Reconnoitring ....		224
Recruiting regulations	.	253
Recruits, their oath	10 a	
how transferred	.	252
how discharged	11 a	
 
INDEX.
XT
 Recruits, may be enlisted for five years or
           during the war     -      -       134
          may be re-enlisted        -       -    126
 Red. ess....to. interiors   -     .   34 a 35 a
          to citizens        -      -     32 a
 Re-enlistment without a discharge        22 a
 Regimental hospital   -      -        231,246,247
 Regimental surgeon, his duties      -       .    231
                    mates     -      .       235
 Regiments may be consolidated      -       -    133
 Relieving an enemy      -      -        56 a
 Reports of prisoners        -           82 a
        of ordnance stores     .      .       208
        of officers in travelling      -       -    250
        confidential     -      -      .       185
        of incapacity  in recruiting  -       -    254
 Reproaches     -      -      .         24 a
 Retreat beating      -      .      -     23 a
 Return detachments     -      -      .       178
 Returns... forms of   -      .      .       115,239
          monthly     -      .        19 a  180
          of inspection    -       -       -    183
          of muster rolls       .      -       182
          of recruits        -      _       254,260
          of clothing   ...   221,222
          of ordnance department  -       90,180
          of stores, to o; dnance department    208
          of hospital  depai tment    -       117,225
          of medicines, to hospital department   225
          of the departments generally     -    117
          of military  storekeepers      -        90
          of horses, oxen, &c.      -           189
          false   -      .      .        18 a
 Riflemen, one regiment    -                   55
          three regiments      »       -       127
Roads        .....    188
Roster.....178 
*vt                 INDEX.
 Rules in promotion  -       -       -       -    K2
       miscellaneous     ...       249
       for militia drafts       -       -       -    261
       for rcciuiting     ...       253
 Running from an enemy     -            52 a

 Saddlers      ....        7g
 Safeguard     -      -       -       -     55 a
 Salutes   .       .       .       .      .       175
 Sea fencibles        ....    139
 Secretary of major general      -               93
 Sentence, its mitigation      •            89 a
 Servants               .       .      -  131, 132
 Shells       .....    205
 Ship carpenters  .      -       -      -        76
 Shot        .                               205
 Sick returns     ....       225
 Sleeping out of camp or quarters    -     42 a
         on post       -       .         46 a
 Soldiers and non-commissioned  officers
           not to go one mile from camp  41 a
         not to lie out of their quarters   42 a
         when  to return to their tents    43 a
         dying in the service, their effects
          to be taken care of       -    95 a
         their heirs entitled to land     -        62
         allowance when discharged        -    67
         not liable to be arrested for debt       101
         sleeping on post    -      -    46 a
Speeches....provoking           .        24 a
          inducing others to run   -    52 a
Spies    --...        40
Spoil....on marches   -       .      -    54 a
Staff....rank      -                            170
       appointments       -                  249
Stationeiy       ....       199
Stewards....hospital  .      -,      -   61,226,248 
                    INDEX.                xvh

Stoppage of pay        -      -       38 a
fr       of militia    -      , -      -          162
Stores   -      -      -  /           -       117
      of ordnance   -      -      -      207,208
      captured from an enemy  -        58 a
Storehouses        -      -      -      189,203
Storekeepers     -      -      -      -119,189
            their returns  ...   208
Straw   -----       196
Striking supe; iors   -      -      -      9 a
Subsistence of the army        -         47,57,61
           of light diagoons       -      -    58
Summary statements.  See Monthly.
Superintendent general of military supplies     115
Superintendent of artificers     -              76
               of recruiting       -      254,260
Suppression of mutiny  -      -       -   8 a
Surgeons, hospital   ...      117,227
          regimental, his duties        -       231
Surrendering        -      -            59 a
Suspension      -      -      -        84 a
Suttlers     -       -      -             60 a
Suttling        -      -       29 a 30 a 31 a 184
Swearing, profane   -      -       -      3 a

Teachers of French-and drawing        -    53
Tents.....197
Topog; aphical engineers   -      -          109
              thei. duties      -      -       224
Transportation      -      -      -      188, 197
Trials....never twice for same offence      87 a
        nor aftei  two years        -     88 a

I • n i F o r m ... .president to pres cribe      100 a
            changes in  -      -      -       262
            of the general staff     -      -   263
            of the artillery     -      -       266
                      b2 
xvhi
INDEX.
 Uniform......of the light dragoons   -      -   26S
            of the light artillery       -       2|2 £
            of the infantry        -      -   2*5 A
            of the riflemen     -      .        ib.
            of the cadets    -      -      -   276

 Vice President, saluted      -      -   173, 175
 Violence to citizens        -       33 a 51 a
 Volunteers      -      -      -    107, 108, 144
           bheir rank        -      -          171
           entitled to promotion        -       136
 Votes in courts martial      -      -    72 a

 Wafers        ....       200
 Waggon masters    ...       73) ] \%
 Waggons        ....   190, 197
         for ammunition   -      -       204,206
 Waiters  -      -      -       -      -   131, 132
 Ward masters       ...        5^ 230
             form of  book to be kept by       244
 Waste of ammunition       -      -     37 a
      on marches      -       -        54 a
Watch word        -      -      -     53 a
Wheelwrights       ....     87
Whipping       ....        93
Widows, of officers        -      -       64, 158
Wine, in rations        -                      54
Witnesses    -      -      .      73 a 74 a
Women  ....    204, 247, 252
       that draw rations    -      -       48, 252
Words, menacing      -       -       76  a
Workshops  .....    203
Wrpngs, by superiors    -       -   34 a 35 a 
 
 
ARTICLES  OF Vi'AR.
AN ACT for establishing Rules and Articles for th'e
  Government of the Armies of the United States.
     Sec. 1.  BE it enacted by the. Senate
and House of Representatives of the Uni-
ted States of America  in  Congress as-
sembled, That from and after the passing
of this act, the following shall be  the  rules
and articles by which the armies of the
United  States shall be governed.
  Art.  1. Every officer now in the army
of the United States, shall, in  six months
from the passing of this act, and  every of-
ficer who shall hereafter be appointed, shall,
before he enters on the duties of his office,
subscribe these rules and regulations.
  Art.  2. It is earnestly recommended to
all officers and soldiers diligently to attend
divine  service; and all officers who  shall
behave  indecently, or irreverently at any
place of divine worship, shall, if commis-
sioned officers, be brought before  a general
court martial, there to  be publicly and se-
verely  reprimanded by  the President;  if
                    A 
^>
non commi&soncd officers or soldier-'  cvtv
person so offending shall, for his in st of
fence, forfeit one sixth of a dollar,  to be
deducted out oi his next pay; for the sreond
oiYence, he shall not only forfeit a like sum,
but be confined twenty-four  hours; and for
every like offence  shall suffer and pay in
like manner;  which  money, so  forfeited,
shall  be applied by the  captain  or  senior
officer of the troop or company, to the use
of the sick soldiers of the company or troop
to wh'ch the Offender belongs.
  Art. 3. Any non-commissioned  officer
or soldier, who shall use  any profane oath
or execration, shall incur the penalties ex-
press -d in the foregoing article; and a com-
missioned officer  shall forfeit and pav for
each and every such offence one  dollar, to
be applied as in the preceding article.
  Art. L  Every  chaplain  commissioned
in the ar m or armies of the United  States
who shall absent himself from the duties as-
si'Y'vd him (excepting in cases  of sickness
or leave of absence)  shall, on conviction
thereof before  a court martial, be  fined n;>i
exceeding one month's pay, besides the loss
of his  pay during  his absence; or be dis-
c!nii\.^d, as the said court  martial  shall
judge proper. 
3
   Art. 5. Any officer or soldier who shall
us:- cjmemptuous or  disrespectful  words
against the President of the United  States,
against the Vice President thereof, against
the Congress of the United States, or against
the chief magistrate or legislature of any of
the United States in which he may be quar-
tered, if a commissioned officer, shall be
cashiered, or otherwise punished, as a court
martial shall direct; if a non-commissioned
officer or soldier, he shall suiter such pun-
ishment as shall  be inflicted on him by  the
sentence of a court martial.
   A rt.  6. Any officer or soldier who shall
behave h;msc'i with contempt or disrespect
towards  his commanding officer, shall be
punisied according to  the nature of  his of-
fence, by the judgment of a court martial.
   Art. 7. Any officer or soldier who shall
begin, excite, cause, or join in any mutiny
or sedition  in any troop or company in  the
service of the United States, or in any par-
ty, post, detachment, or guard, shall suffer
d.'alh, or st-<»h other punishment as by a
court  martial shall be inflicted.
   At:.t. 8. Any officer,non-commissioned
officer, or soldier, who,  being present  at
any mutiny or sedition, docs not use his ut-
most  endeavor to suppress the  same, or 
4
 coming to the knowledge of any intended
 mutiny, does not without delay, give  infor-
 mation thereof to his commanding officer,
 shall be punished by the sentence of a court
 martial with death or otherwise, according
 fo the nature of his offence.
   Art. 9. Any officer or soldier who shall
 strike his superior officer, or draw or lift up
 any weapon, or  offer any violence against
 him, being in the execution of his office, on
 any pretence whatsoever, or  shall disobey
 any lawful command of his superior oflicer,
 shall sutler death, or such other punishment
 as shall, according to the nature of his of-
 fence be inflicted upon him by the  sentence
 of a court martial.
   Art. 10. Every non commissioned of-
 ficer, or soldier, who shall enlist himself in
 the service  of the United  States,  shall, iU
 the time of his so enlisting, or within  six
 days afterwards, have (he  articles for  the
 government of the  armies of the  United
 States, read to him, and shall, by the officer
 who enlisted him, or  by  the commanding
 officer of the troop  or company into which
 he was enlisted, be taken  before the  next
justice of the peace, or chief magistrate of
 any city or town  corporate,  not  being
 nn officer of the  army. W\ where  recoup. 
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cannot be had  to the ehil magistrate, ivc
fore  the  juci.'e  advocate, and  in his pre
r-euec, shall take the following oath or affir-
mation: " I,  A. Ii.  do solemnly swear or
affirm, (as the case may be)  that I will
bear true allegiance to the United  States
of America,  and thai I will serve them
honestly  ami  faithfully against all their ene-
rgies, or op'insns,  whatsoever, and  ob-
serve and ores- the orders of the President
of the L'n-tcd'Ku.i.-s, and the orders of the
officers  appointed over me, according to
the rales and articles for the government
of the armies of the United States."  Which
justice,  magistrate,  or  judge advocate, is
e> give the officer a certificate, signifying
that ^c man  enlisted, did  take the said-
oath or affirmation.
   Art.  J i.  After a non-commissioned of-
ficer or soldier, shall have been duly enlist
ed and sworn,  he shall not be dismissed the
service without a discharge in writing; and
no discharge granted to him shall be  suffi-
cient, which  is not signed by a field officer
of the regiment to  which he  belongs, or
commanding officer, where no field officer
of the regiment is present; and no discharge
shall be given to a non-commissioned offi
ccr  or soldier, before his term of service
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iias expired, but by order of the President,
the Secretary of War, the commanding of-
ficer of a department, or the sentence of  a
general court martial; nor shall a  commis-
sioned officer be discharged the service, but
by order  of the  President of the United
States, or by  sentence of a general court
martial.
  Artr. 12. Every colonel, or other officer
commanding a regiment, troop, or compa-
ny, and  actually quartered with  it, may
give furlough;  to non-commissioned officers
or soldiers, in such  numbers, and for so
long a time as he shall juf!;.;e to  be most
consistent with the goo 1 of tin- service; and
a captain or  other  inferior officer  com-
manding a troop or company, or in anv
garrison,  f>;t  or barrack  of  the  United
States, (his lield  officer being absent,) may
give furloughs to  non-commissioned  offi-
cers or soldiers,  for a time not exceeding
twenty days in six months,  hot not to more
than two persons to be absent at the  same
time  excepting  some extraordinary  occa-
sion should require it.
  Art. VI At  every  muster, the  com-
manding officer of each regiment,  troop, or
connvmy  there present, shall  give to the
commissary of musters, or other oflicer v ho 
-./
niu.-ters the said regiment, trocp. or com-
pany, certificates signed by hin self, signi-
fying how long  such officers  as  shall not
appeal" at the said muster, have been absent,
and  the  reason  of their absence.   In  like
manner, the commanding offcer of every
troop, or company,  shall  give certificates,
signifying the reasons of the absence of the
non-commissioned officers and private  sol-
dier--, which reasons, and times of absence,
shall be inserted in the muster-roils opposite
the name of the respective alv-ent  officers
and  soldiers.  The certificates shall, toge-
ther with the muster-rolls, be remitted by
the commissary  of musters, or other officer
mustering, to the Departnvmt of War, as
speedily  as the  distance of the place  will
admit.
  Art.  14. Every  officer who shall be
convicted,  before a  general court martial,
of having signed a false certificate, relating
to the absence  of either  officer or  private
soldier, or ivlativc to his or their pay, shall
he cashiered.
  A. iiT.  15. Every officer who shall know-
ingly make a false muster of man or horse,
and every officer or commissary of musters,
who shall  willingly  sign, direct, or all'-w
the  signing of  muster-rolls, wherein such 
ts
^'alse muster is contained, shall, upon proof
made thereof by two witnesses, belore  a
general court martial, be  cashiered, and
t-hall be thereby utterly disabled to have or
hold any office or employment in the ser-
vice of the  United States.
  Art.  lb. Any  commissary  of musters
or other officer, who shall be convicted of
having taken money or other thing, by wa\
of gratification, on the mustering any regi-
ment.troop, or company, or on signing mus-
ter rolls,  shall be displaced from his  office,
and shall be thereby utterly disabled to have
or hold any office or employment in the ser-
vice of the  United States.
  Art.  IT. Any officer who  shall  pre-
sume to muster a person as a soldier who
is not a soldier, shall be deemed  guilty of
having made a false muster, and shall suf-
fer accordingly.
  Art.  18. Every officer who shall know-
ingly make a false return  to the Depart-
ment of War, or to any of his superior offi-
cers, authorised to call for such returns, of
the state of the regiment, troop, or company,
or garrison, under his command; or of the
arms, ammunition, clothing, or other  stores
thereunto belonging, shall, on  conviction
thereof, before a court martial, be cashiered. 
9
  Art. 19. The commanding officer of
every regiment, troop, or independent com-
pany, or  garrison of the United  States,
shaft, in the beginning of every month, re-
mit through the proper channels, to the
Department of War, an exact return of the
regiment, troop, independent company, or
garrison, under  his  command, specifying
the names of the officers then absent front
their  posts, with the reasons for,  and tho
time  of their absence.  And  any officcv
who shall be convicted of having, through
neglect or design, omitted sending such re-
turns, shall be punished according to the
nature of his crime, by the judgment of a
general court martial.
   Art.  20. All officers and soldiers, who
have received pay, or have been duly en-
listed in the service of thfctijnited  States,
and shall be convicted of Mping  deserted
the same, shall suffer death,  or such other
punishment as by sentence of a court mar-
tial shall be inflicted.
   Art. 21. Any non-commissioned officer
or soldier, who'shall, without  leave from
his  commanding  officer,  absent himself
from his troop, company, or  detachment,
 !dial<, open  being  convicted   thereof,  be
 ;m risked according  to the nature  of his  of-
 ver. e, at the discretion of a court  martnd 
10
   Art. 22. No non-commissioned officer
 or soldier, sliall enlist himself in any other
 regiment,  troop, or company,  without a
 regular discharge from the regiment, troop,
 or company, in  which he last served, on
 I he penalty of being  reputed  a deserter,
 and suffering accerdingly.   And in  case
 any officer shall knawingry receive and en-
 tertain such non-commissioned officer or sol-
 dier, or shall not, after his being discovered
 to be a deserter, immediately confine  him,
 and give notice thereof to theVorps in which
 he last  served, the  said officer shall bv a
 court martial be cashiered.
   Art.  23.  Any officer  or soldier  who
 shall  be convicted  of having  advised  or
 persuaded  any other  officer or soldier, to
 desert the  service of the   United  States,
 shall suffer death, or such other punishment
 as shalPre inflicted  upon him by the  sen
 teuce of a court martial.
   Art.  21. No officer or soldier P.vW use
 anv reproachful  or  provoking speeches or
 gestures to another, upon pain, if an officer,
 of being put in arrest;  if a'soldier, confined,
and of asking pardon of the party offended,
 in th? nre-rnee of his e:>mma!ul:ng officer.
   A:.t.  25. No o-'cyp or s.ildier shall send
 a challenge to another offic t or eeldic. to 
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fight a duel, cr accept a challenge,  if sent,
upon  pain, if a  commissioned officer, oi
being cashiered,  if a non-commissioned of-
ficer or soldier, of suffering  corporeal pun-
ishment, at the discretion of a court martial.
  Art. 26. If any commissioned or non-
commissioned officer ccmmanding a guard,
shall knowingly or willingly surer any per-
son whatsoever, to go  forth  to fight a duel,
he shall be punished as a challenger; and
all seconds, promoters, and carriers of chal-
lenges, in order to  duels, shall be deemed
principals, and punished accordingly.  And
it shall be  the duty of every officer, com-
manding  an army, regiment, company,
post, or detachment, who is knowing  to a
challenge being given, or accepted, by any
officer, non-commissioned officer, or soldier,
under his command, or has reason to be-
lieve the same to be the case, immediately
to arrest and brine, to  trial  such  offenders.
  Act. 27. All officers, of what condition
soever, have  power to part and qnell all
quarrels, nays, and disrrders, though  the
persons concerned shouM belong to  another
regiment, troop, cr company:  and either to
order others into  arrest, or  non-con mis
slcued office:"- or soldiers into '•o:ffm'mnc»;!<, 
12
 until their proper superior officers shall  be
 acquainted therewith; and whosoever shall
 refuse to obey such officer (though  of  an
 inferior rank) or shall draw his sword upon
 him, shall be punished at the discretion of a
 general court martial.
   Art. 28.  Any officer or  soldier,  who
 shall upbraid another for refusing a chal-
 lenge, shall himself be punished as a chal-
 lenger; and all officers and soldiers are here-
 by discharged from any disgrace or opinion
 of disadvantage, which might arise from
 their having refused to accept of challenges,
 as they will only have acted  in obedience
 to the laws,  and done their duty as good
 soldiers, who subject themselves  to  disci
 pline.
   Art.  29.  No sutler shall be permitted
 to sell  any  kind of liquors or victuals, or  to
keep their houses or shops open for the en-
 tertainment of soldiers, after nine at night,
or before the beating of the  reveilles,  or
 upon Sundays, during divine service or ser-
mon,  on the penalty of being dismissed
from all future sutling.
  Art.  30.  All  officers commanding  in
the field, forts, barracks, or garrisons of the
 Uni'vl States, are hereby required to see
(hat the  person-,  permitted  to sutlc, shall 
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supply the soldiers with good and whole
some provisions, or other articles, at a rea
sonable price, as they shall be answerable
for their neglect.
   Art. 31. No  officer  commanding  in
any  of the garrisons, forts or barracks of
the United  States, shall exact exorbitant
prices for houses or stalls, let out to sutlers,
or connive at the like exactions  in others;
nor by his own authority,  and for his pri
vate advantage, lay any duty or imposition
upon, or be interested in the sale of any
victuals, liquors, or other necessaries of life,
brought into the  garrison, fort, or barracks,
for the use of the  soldiers, on the penalty
of being discharged from the service.
   Art. 32. Every officer commanding in
quarters, garrisons, or on the march, shall
keep good order, and to the utmost of his
power,  redress  all  abuses  or  disorders,
which may be committed by any  officer
or soldier under his command; if upon com-
plaint made to him  of officers or soldiers
beating, or otherwise ill treating any per-
son, of disturbing fairs or markets, or of
committing  any kinds of riots,  to the dis-
quieting of the citizens of the United States,
he, the said commander, who shall refuse
or omit to see justice done to the offender
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14
or offenders, and reparation  made  to  the
party or parties injured, as far as part of
the offenders pay shall enable him or them,
shall, upon proof thereof, be  cashiered  or
otherwise punished, as  a general  court
martial  shall direct.
  Art.  33. When any commissioned of-
ficer or  soldier shall be accused of a capital
crime, or of having used violence, or com-
mitted any offence against the persons or
property of any citizen of any of the Uni-
ted  States, such as  is punishable by  the
known laws of the land, the  commanding
officer,  and  officers of every  regiment,
troop, or'company, to which the person, or
persons, so accused,  shall belong, are here-
by required, upon application duly made
by, or in behalf of the party or parties in-
jured, to use their utmost endeavors to  de-
liver over such accused person, or persons,
to the civil magistrate, and likewise to be
aiding and assisting to the officers of justice
in apprehending and securing the  person
or persons so accused, in  order  to bring
him or them to trial.  If any commanding
officer or officers, sliall wilfully neglect, or
shall refuse, upon the application aforesaid,
to  deliver over such  accused person, or
persons, to the civil magistrates, or to be 
15
aiding and assisting to the officers of justice
in apprehending such person, or persons,
the officer, or officers, so offending, shall
be cashiered.
  Art. 'Pi. If any officer shall thhik him-
self wronged by his colonel, or the  com-
manding officer of the regiment, and  shall,
upon  due application being made to him,
be refused redress, he may complain to the
general, commanding in the state or terri-
tory where such regiment shall  be  station-
ed, in order to obtain justice; who is  here-
by required to examine into the said  com-
plaint, and take proper measures for re-
dressing the  wrong complained of,  and
transmit as soon as possible to the Depart-
ment  of War, a true state of  such  com-
plaint, with the proceedings had thereon.
  Art. 35. If any inferior officer or sol-
dier, shall think himself wronged  by his
captain, or other officer, he is to complain
thereof to the commanding officer of the
re mncnt, who is hereby required i,o  sum-
mon a regimental court  martial, for the
doing'  justice to the  complainant;   from
wh"eh regimental court martial, e'uher party
may,  if he  thinks  himself still  aggrieved,
ap;v\d to a general court martial. But if,
upon  a second hearing, the  appeal  shall 
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appear vexatious and groundless, the per-
son, so appealing, shall be punished at the
discretion of the said court martial.
   Art.  36.  Any  commissioned  officer,
store keeper, or commissary, who shall be
convicted at a general court martial, of hav-
ing  sold, Without a proper order for  that
purpose, embezzled, misapplied, or wilful-
ly, or through neglect, suffered any of the
provisions, forage, arms,  clothing,'ammu-
nition, or other military stores, belonging
to the United States,  to be  spoiled or da-
maged, shall, at his  own expense, make
good the loss or damage,  and shall, more-
over, forfeit all  his pay, and be dismissed
iron1 the service.
   Art.  37. Any non-commissioned offi-
cer or soldier, who shall be convicted  at a
regimental court martial, of having sold, or
designedly, or through neglect, wasted the
ammunition delivered out  to him. to be em-
ployed in the service of the United  States,
shall be punished at the discretion of such
court.
   Art.  38. Every non-commissioned of-
ficer or soldier, who shall  be convicted be-
fore a court martial of having sold, lost, or
spoiled, through neglect, his horse,  arms,
clothes, or  accoutrements,  shall undergo 
17
such weekly stoppages (not exceeding the
half of his pay) as such cr»urt  martial shall
judge sufficient, for repairing the  loss or
damage; and  shall  sufter confinement, or
such  other  corporeal  punishment as his
crime shall deserve.
   Art. 39. Every officer, who shall be
convicted before a court martial, of having
embezzled, or misapplied any money w ith
which he may have been entrusted, for the
payment of the men under his command,
or for enlisting men into the service, or for
other purposes, if a commissioned officer,
shall be cashiered, and compelled to refund
the money; if a non-commissioned officer,
shall be reduced to the ranks, be put under
stoppages until the money be made good*
and  suffer such corporeal punishment as
such court martial shall direct.
   Art. 40. Every captain of a troop, or
company, is charged  with the  arms, ac-
coutrements, ammunition, clothing, or other
warlike stores belonging to the troop or
e i<nouny under his command, which he
is to' be accountable for to his colonel, in
ease of their being lost, spoiled, or damaged.
not bv unavoidable accidents, or on actual
service.
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  Art. 41. All non-commissioned officers
and soldiers, w ho shall be found one mile
from the camp, without leave, in writing,
from their commanding officer, shall suffer
such punishment as shall be inflicted  upon
them by the sentence of a court martial.
  Art. 42. No officer or soldier shall lie
out of his quarters, garrison, or camp, with-
out leave  from his superior  officer,  upon
penalty of being punished according to the
nature of  his offence,  by the sentence  of
a court martial.
  Art. 43. Every non-commissioned of-
ficer and soldier shall retire to his quarter :<
or tent, at the beating of the retreat; in de-
fault of which he shall be punished accord-
ing to the nature of his  offence.
  Art. 44. No officer, non-commissioned
officer or soldier, shall fail in  repairing,  at;
the time fixed, to the  place  of parade,  of
exercise, or other rendezvous, appointed
by his commanding officer, if net prevent-
ed by sickness, or some other evident ne-
cessity; or shall go from  the  said place  of
rendezvous, without leave from Ins com-
manding officer,  before he shall  be  regu-
larly dismissed or relieved, on the penally
of being punished according  to the nature
of his offence by the  sentence of a court
martial. 
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  Art.  45.  Any  commissioned   offiecr,
who saali  be found drunk on his  guard.
party,  or other  duty,  si nil be  cashiered.
Any non-commissioned officer or soldier so
offending, shall suffer such corporeal  pun-
ishment  as shall be inflicted by the sen-
tence of a court martial.
  A:it.  PI  Any eeiithiel  who shall be
found sleeping upon his post, or shall leave
it before he shall be regularly relieved, shall
suffer death,  or  such other  punishment as
shall be hiiiietcd o\ the sentence of a court
mui-LlJ.
  Aut.  47.  No  soldier belonging  to anv
i\guueiib, troop,  or company,  shall  hire
anther to do iiis duty for  hffu, or be ex
cased from dmy, but in ea,e, of sickness,
disability, or  leave of absence; and eve; \
f.ick se/tfficr found g iiky of hiding his duty,
its a'oo the party  si iff^ed to do another's
duty, shad be punished at the discretion of
a regimental  court mari-ia!.
  Airr.  48.  And every non-commissioned
oflicer conniving ut such hiring of  duty
aforesaid, shall be reduced; and every com
missioned officer, kiiu;ving and allowing
i^aPi iil practices m the service, shall be
punished by  the juj^mc'it of  a  genera!
carl m.uffid. 
£«
  Art. 49. Any officer belonging to the
service of the United States, who, by dis-
charging of fire arms, drawing of swords,
beating of drums, or by any other  means
whatsoever, shall occasion  false alarms in
camp,  garrison, or quarters,  shall suffer
death or such other punishment as shall be
ordered by the sentence of a general court
martial.
  Art. 50. Any officer or soldier, who
shall, without urgent necessity, or w ithout
the  leave of his superior officer, quit his
guard, platoon, or division, shall be punish-
ed according to the nature  of  his offence,
by the sentence of a court martial.
  Art. 51. No officer or soldier  shall do
violence to any person who brings provi-
sions or other necessaries to the camp, garri-
son or quarters, of the forces of the'United
States, employed  in any parts out of the
said states,  upon pain of death,  or such
other punishment as a court martial shall
direct.
  Art. 52. Any officer or soldier, who
shall misbehave himself before the enemy,
run aw ay, or shamefully abandon any fort,
post, or guard, which he or they  may be
commanded to defend, or speak words in-
ducing others to do the like; or shall cast 
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away his arms and ammunition, or who shall
quit his post or colors to plunder and pillage;
every such offender being duly convicted
thereof, shall suffer death, or such other pun-
ishment as shall  be ordered by the  sen-
tence of a general court martial.
   Art. 53. Any person belonging to  the
armies  of the United States, who shall
make known the watch word to any person
who is  not entitled to receive it, according
to the rulesand discipline of war, or shall
presume to give a parole or watch word,
different from what he received, shall suffer
death, or  such other punishment as shall be
ordered by the sentence of a general court
martial.
   Art. 54.  All officers and soldiers are to
behave themselves orderly in quarters, and
on their march; and whosoever shall com-
mit any waste, or spoil, either in walks of
trees, parks, warrens, fish-ponds, houses, or
gardens,  corn-fields,  enclosures of mea-
dows, or shall maliciously destroy any  pro-
perty whatsoever, belonging to the inhabi-
 tants of the United States, unless by order
 of the then commander in chief of the armies
 of the said states, shall (besides such penal.
 ties as  they are liable to by law) be punish-
 ed according to the nature and degree of 
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 the offence, by the judgment of a regimen-
 al or general court martial.
   Art.  55. Whosoever, belonging to the
 armies of the United States, employed in
 foreign parts, shall force a sale guard, shall
 suffer death.
   Art.  56. Whosoever shall relieve the
 enemy with money, victuals, or ammuni-
 tion, or shall knowingly harbor or protect
 an enemy, shall suffer death, or such other
 punishment as shall be ordered by  he sen-
 tence of a court martial.
  Art.  57.  Whosoever shall be convicted
 of holding correspondence with,  or giving
 intelligence to the enemy, either directly or
 indirectly, shall suffer death, or such  other
 punishment as shall be ordered by the sen-
 tence of a court martial.
  Art.  58 All public stores taken in the
 enemy's camp, towns, forts, or magazines,
 whether of artillery, ammunition, clothing,
 forage, or provisions, shall be secured for
 the service  of the United States; for the
neglect of which the commanding officer is
to be answerable.
  Art. 5P. If any  commander  of  anv
garrison,  fortress, or post, shall  be com-
 pelled  by the officers and soldiers under
 lis command, to give up to the cnemv, or 
23
to aoandon it; the commissioned officers,
non-commissioned officers, or soldiers, who
shall be convicted of having so offended,
shall suffer  death, or such  other  punish-
ment as shall be inflicted upon them by the
sentence of a court martial.
   Art. 60. All  sutlers and retainers  to
the camp,  and all  persons whatsoever,
serving with the armies of the United States,
in the field, though not enlisted soldiers, arc
to be subject  to orders, according  to  the
rules and discipline of war.
   Art . 61. Officers having brevets,  or
commissions, of a prior date to those of the
regiment in which they serve, may take
place in courts martial and on detachments,
when composed of different corps, accord-
ing to the ranks given them in their brevets,
or dates of their former commissions; but in
the regiment, troop, or company, to which
such officers belong, they  shall  do  duty,
and take rank, both in courts martial and
on detachments, which shall be composed
only of their own corps, according to  the
commissions by which they are mustered in
the said corps.
   Art. 62. If upon marches, guards,  or
in quarters, different corn; of the army shall
happen to join, or do duty together, the 
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officer highest in rank of the line of the ar-
my, marine corps, or militia, by commis-
sion there, on duty, or in quarters,  shall
command the whole, and give orders for
what is needful to the service, unless other-
wise specially directed by the President of
the United States, according to the nature
of the case.
   Art. 63.  The functions of the engineers
being generally confined  to  the most ele-
vated branch of military science, they are
not to assume, nor  are  they subject to be
ordered on any duty beyond the line of
their immediate profession,  except by the
special order of the President of the United
States; but they are to receive every mark
of respect, to which  their rank in the army
may entitle them respectively, and are lia-
ble to be transferred, at the discretion of the
President, from one corps to another, re-
gard being paid to rank.
  Art. 64. General  courts  martial  may
consist of any number of commissioned of-
ficers from five to thirteen inclusively, but
they shall  not consist of less than thirteen,.
where that number can be convened, with- **
out manifest injury to the service.           '*
  Art. 65.   Any  general  officer com-
manding an army, or colcncl commanding 
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 a separate department, may appoint gene-
 ral  courts  martial  whenever  necessary.
 But no sentence of a court martial shall be
 carried into execution until after the whole
 proceedings shall have been laid before the
 officer  ordering  the same,  or the off eer
 commanding the troops for the time being;
 neither shall any sentence of a general court
 martial, in time of peace, extending to the
 loss of life, or the dismission  of a commis-
 sioned officer, or which shall, either in time
 of peace or war. respect a general  officer,
 be  carried into execution, until after  the
 whole proceedings shall have been trans-
 mitted to the Secretary of War, to  be  laid
 before the President of the  United  States,
 for his confirmation or disapproval and or-
 ders in the case.   All other  sentences may
 be confirmed and executed by the officer or-
 dering the court to assemble, or the com-
 manding officer for the time  being, as  the
 case may be.
  Art. 66.  Every officer commanding  a
 regiment,  or corps, may appoint,  for  his
 own regiment or  corps, courts martial, to
consist of three commissioned officers, f- r
the  trial and punishment of offences,  not
capital,  and  decide rpm their sentences.
For the same purpose all officers cumrarr.d- 
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 ing any of the garrisons, forts, barracks, or
 other places where the troops consist of dif-
 ferent corps, may assemble courts martial,
 to consist of three commissioned  officers,
 and decide upon their sentences.
   Art.  67.  No garrison  or  regimental
 court martial shall have the power to try
 capital cases, or commissioned officers; nei-
 ther shall they inflict a fine exceeding one
 month's pay, nor imprison, nor put to hard
labor, any non-commissioned officer or sol-
 dier, for a longer time than one month.
   Art. 68. Whenever it  may be  found
 convenient and necessary to  the  public
 s-erviee, the officers of the "marine shall be
associated with the officers of the land for-
ces, for the purpose of holding courts mar-
tial and trying offenders belonging to either;
and in such cases the orders of the senior
oflicers of either corps who may be present
and duly authorised, shall be received and
obeyed.
   Art. 69. The judge advocate, or some
person deputed by him, or by the  general,
or officer  commanding  the army,  detach-
ment  or garrison, shall prosecute in the
name of the United States, but shall so far
consider himself as counsel for the prisoner,
after the said prisoner shall  have made his.
plea, as to object to any hading question to 
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any of the w itncsses, or any question to the
prisoner, the answer to which might tend
to criminate  himself;  and  administer  to
each member of the court, before they pro-
ceed upon anv  trial,  the  following oath.
which shall also be taken by all members of
the regimental and garrison courts martial.
  " You,  A  B.  do swear, that you  will
well and truly try and determine, accord-
ing to evidence, the  matter now  before
)ou, between the United States of Ameri-
ca and  the prisoner to be tried,  and that
you w ill duly administer justice, according
to the provisions of " An act establishing
rules and articles for the government of the
armies of the United  States," without par-
tiality, favor, or affection; and if any doubt
shall" arise, not explained by said articles,
according to your conscience,  the  best of
vour  understanding,  and  the  custom  of
war,  in like cases; and  you  do  further
swear, that you will  not divulge the sen-
tence of the court until it shall be published
by  the  proper authority; neither  will  yon
disclose or discover the vote  or opinion of
n"nv  particular member of the  court mar-
tial, unless required to give evidence there
of as a whness. bv a court of justice, in *.
die course ofluw"  So help you God" 
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   And as soon as the said oath shall have
been administered to the respective mem-
bers, the president of the court  shall  ad-
minister  to the judge advocate, or person
officiating as  such, an oath in the following
Words:
   " You, A.  B. do swear, that you  will
not disclose or discover the vote or opinion
of any particular member of the court mar-
tial, unless required to give evidence there-
of as a witness, by a court of justice, in due
course of law.  Nor divulge the  sentence
of the court to any but the  roper authority,
until it shall be duly disclosed by the same.
So help you  God."
  Art. 70.  When a prisoner, arraigned
before a general court martial,  shall, from
obstinate and deliberate design, stand mute
or answer foreign to the purpose, the court
may proceed to trial and judgment as if the
prisoner had regularly pleaded not guilty.
  Art.  71.  When  a  member  shall  be
challenged by a prisoner, he must state  his
cause of challenge, of which the court shall,
after due deliberation, determine the rele-
vancy or val'dity, and decide accordingly;
and n-T challenge to more than one member
■at a time shall be received by the court. 
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  xVrt. 72. All the members of a  court
martial are to behave with  decency  and
calmness; and in giving their votes, are to
begin with the youngest in commission.
  Art. 73. All persons  who  give   cvi*
deuce before a court martial, are to be ex-
amined on  oath or affirmation, in the fol-
lowing form:
  " You swear, or affirm (as the case may
be) the evidence; you shall give in the  cause
now in hearing,  shall be the  truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  Sq
help you God"
  Art. 7-1. On the  trials of cases not
capital, before  courts  martial, the  depo-
sition of witnesses not in the  line or staff of
the army, may  be taken  before some jus-
tice of the peace, and read in evidence;
provided,  the prosecutor  and  person ac-
cused are present at the taking the same,
or are duly notified  thereof
  Art. 75. No officer shall be tried but
by a general court martial, nor by officers
of an inferior rank, if it  can be  avoided.
Nor shall any proceedings or trials be ear-
ned on, excepting  between the  hours of
eight in the morning and three in the  after-
noon, excepting  in cases which, in the
                   c 2 
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opinion of the officer appointing the court
martial, require immediate example.
   Art. 76. No person  whatsoever shall
use any menacing words, signs, or gestures,
in presence of a court martial, or sliall cause
any disorder or  riot, or disturb their pro-
ceedings, on the penalty of being punished
at the discretion  of the said court martial.
   Art. 77. Whenever any officer shall
be charged with a crime, he shall be arrest-
ed and confined  in his barracks, quarters,
or tent, and  deprived of his sword, by  the
commanding officer.   And any officer who
«hall leave his confinement before he sliall
be set at liberty by  his  commanding of-
ficer,  or by a  superior officer, shall be
cashiered.
   Art.  78. Non-commissioned  officers
and soldiers charged  with crimes, shall be
confined until tried by a court martial, or
released by proper authority.
   Art. 79.  No officer  or soldier who
phall be put in arrest, 6hall continue in con-
finement more than  eight days,  or until
ruch time as a court martial can be assem-
bled.
   Art.  80. No  officer  commanding a
guard, or provost marshal, shall refuse to
receive or keep any prisoner committed to 
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              /
 his c.uu^'c uy an officer belonging to the
 fcrees of the  United States; provided the
 officer committing shall, at the same time,
 deliver an account in writing, signed by
 iiimself, of the  crime with which the said
 prisoner is charged.
   Art. 81.  Mo officer  commanding a
 guard,  or provost marshal, shall presume
 to release  any  person committed  to his
 charge  without proper authority for  so do-
 ing, nor shall he sutler any person to escape,
 on the penalty of being punished for it by
 thc sentence of a court martial.
   Art. 82. NEvery officer or provost mar-
 shal, to whose charge prisoners  shall be
 committed, shall, within twenty-four hours
 after such commitment, or as soon as he
 shall be relieved from his guard,  make re-
 port in writing, to the commanding officer,
 of their names, their crimes, and the names
 of the oflicers who committed them, on the
 penalty of being punished for disobedience
 or neglect, at the discretion of a court mar-
 tial.
   Art.  83.  Any commissioned office)'
 convicted before a general court martial of
 conduct unbecoming an officer and a gen
tleman, shall be dismissed the service.
  Art. 84.  In cases where a court mar- 
lial may think it proper to sentence a com-
missioned officer to be  suspended irom
command, they shall have power also to
suspend Ins  pay and emoluments for  the
same  time, according to  the nature  and
heinousncss of the offence.
  Art. 85.  In all cases where a commis-
sioned officer is  cashiered for cowardice or
fraud, it  shall be added in the  sentence,
that the crime, name, and place of abode,
and punishment of the delinquent,  be pub-
lished in  the newspapers, in and about the
camp,  and  of  the  particular  state from
which the  offender  came, or where  he
usually resides,  after which  it shall  be
deemed scandalous  for an officer to asso-
ciate with him.
  Art. 86. The commanding  officer of
any post or detachment, in  which there
shall not  be a number of officers adequate
to form a general court martial, shall, in
cases  which require the cognizance of such
a court, report to the commanding officer
of the department, who shall order a court
to be  assembled at the nearest  post or de-
tachment, an I the party accused, with ir>
cessar witnesses, to be transported to the
place where the said court shall be assem-
bled 
  Art. 87. No person shall be sentenced
to suffer death but  by tiie concurrence of
two  thirds of the  members  of a general
court martial, nor except in the eases here-
in expres-ly mentioned; nor  shall  more
than fifty lashes be inflicted on any offend-
er, at the discretion of a court martial;* and
no officer, non-commisioned officer, or sol-
dier, or f dlovver of the army, shall be tried
a second time for the  same offence.
  Art. 88. No person  shall be liable to
be tried and punished by a general court
martial for any offence which  shall appear
to have been  committed more than two
years before the issuing of the order for
such trial, unless the person,  by reason of
having absented himself,  or  some  other
manifest impediment,  shall not have been
amenable to justice within that period.
  Art. 89. Every  officer authorised  to
order a general court martial, shall have
power  to pardon or mitigate  any punish-
ment ordered  by such  court,  except  the
sentence of death, or of cashiering an ofiU
cor; wrhich, in the cases where he has au-
thority (by article  65) to carry them into

  * Punishment 'iv stripes  or la^hci  aboli'-he i.  Re's
Kc, 7, act of lGth'May, 16th, 1812. 
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execution, he may suspend until the  plea-
sure of the President ot the United States
ean be known; which suspension, together
with copies of the proceedings of the court
martial, the said  officer shall immediately
transmit to the President for his determina-
tion.   And the colonel or commanding of-
ficer  of the  regiment or garrison, where
any regimental or garrison court martial
shall be held, may pardon or mitigate any
punishment ordered by  such  court  to be
inflicted.
   Art. 90.  Every judge advocate, or
person officiating as such, at any general
court martial, shall transmit, with as  much
expedition as the opportunity of time and
distance of place  can admit, the original
proceedings  and  sentence of such  court
martial, to the Secret iry  of War,  which
said original  proceedings  and  sentence
shall be carefully kept and preserved in the
office of said  Secretary, to the end that the
persons entitled thereto may be enabled,
upon application to the said office, to obtain
copies thereof.
   The past's'  tried by  any general  court
martial, shall, upon demand tliercof made
by hhus-eH", or by  any person or persons
in his behalf,  be entitled to a copv  of tlv 
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scntcnec  and  proceedings  of such court.
martial.
  Art. 91.  In cases where the general or
commanding officer may order a court of
inquiry to examine into the nature of any
transaction, accusation, or  imputation, a
gainst any officer or soldier, the said court
shall consist of one or more officers, not
exceeding three, and a judge  advocate, or
other suitable person as  a recorder, to re-
duce the proceedings and evidence to wri-
ting, all  of whom shall be sworn to the
faithful performance of  their duty.  This
court shall have the same power to  sum-
mon witnesses as  a court martial and to
examine  them on oath.  But they shall not
give their opinion on the merits of the case,
excepting they shall be thereto specially re-
quired.   The parties accused  shall also be
permitted to cross-examine, and interrogate
the witnesses, so as to  investigate  fully the
circumstances in question.
  Art. 92.  The proceedings of a court of
inquiry must  be authenticated by  the sig-
nature  of the recorder and the president,
and delivered  to the commanding officer;
and the said proceedings may be  admitted
as evidence by a court martial, in  cases not
capital  or extending to the dismission of an 
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 officer, provided that the circum -fauces are.
 such, that oral testimony cannot be obtain
 cd.   But as courts of inquiry may be  per-
 verted to dishonorable purposes, and may
 be considered as engines of  destruction to
 military merit, in the hands of weak  and
 envious commandants, they are hereby pro-
 hibited, unless directed by the President of
 the United States, or demanded by the ac-
 cused.
   Art.  93. The  judge  advocate, or  re-
 corder, shall administer to  the members
 the following oath:
   " You shall well and truly  examine and
 inquire  according to your evidence, into
 the matter now before you, without partiali-
 ty, favor, affection, prejudice, or hope  of
 reward.  So help you God"
   After which the president shall adminis-
 ter to the judge advocate, or  recorder,  the
 following oath:
   "You A. B.  do swear,  that  you  will,
 according to your best abilities, accurately
 and imoartiallv, record the proceedings of
the court, and the evidence to be  given in
the ease in hearing.  So help you God."
   Tho witnesses shall take  the  same oath
as witnesses sworn brfore a court martial.
  Art. 91. When any commissionedoffic-r 
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shall  die, or  be killed in the service of
the United States, the major  of the regi-
ment, or the officer doing the major's duty
in his absence, or in any  post  or garrison,
the second officer in command, or the as-
sistant military  agent, shall  immediately
secure all his  effects or equipage then in
camp or quarters, and shall make  an in
ventory thereof, and forthwith transmit the
same to the office  of the  Department of
War, to the end, that  his executors  or ad-
ministrators may receive the same.
   Art. 95.  When any non-commissioned
oflicer or soldier, shall die, or be killed in
the service of the United States, the then
commanding officer of the  troop, or com-
pany, shall,  in the presence of two other
commissioned oflicers, take an account of
what effects he died possessed of, above his
arms and accoutrements, and  transmit the
same to the office of the Department of
War; which said effects are to be account
ed for, and paid to the representatives of
such deceased non-commissioned officer or
soldier.   And  in case any  of  the officers,
so authorised to take care of the effects of de-
ceased officers  and soldiers, should,  before
n 
3d
 ihey have accounted  to  their  representa-
 tives for the same, have occasion to leave
 the regiment, or post, by preferment, or
 otherwise, they shall, before they be per-
 mitted to quit the same, deposit in the hands
 of the commanding officer, or of the assist-
 ant military agent, all the effects of  such
 deceased non-commissioned officers  and
 soldiers, in order that  the same may be se-
 cured for, and paid to their respective re-
 presentatives.
   Art. 96.  All officers,  conductors,  gun-
 ners, matrosses, drivers,  or other persons
 whatsoever,  receiving pay, or hire, in the
 service of the artillery or corps of engineers
 of the  United  States, shall  be governed
 by the aforesaid  rules and  articles,  and
 shall be subject to be  tried by courts mar-
 tial, in like manner with the officers  and
 soldiers of the other troops in the service of
 the United States.
   Art. 97.  The  officers  and  soldiers of
 any troops, whether militia or others, being
 mustered and in pay of the United States,
 shall, at all times, and  in all places, when
joined,  or acting in conjunction with  the
 regular forces of the United States, be go-
 verned by these rules and  articles of war, 
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and shall be subject  to be tried  by courts
martial, in like manner with the officers and
soldiers in the regular forces, save  only,
that such courts martial shall be  composed
entirely of militia officers.
  Art. 98. All oflicers  serving by com-
mission from the authority of any particular
state, shall, on all detachments, courts mar-
tial, or other duty, wherein they may be
employed  in conjunction with the regular
forces  of  the  United  States, take  rank,
next after all  officers of the like grade in
said  regular forces,  notwithstanding  the
commissions of such  militia or state officers
may be elder than the commissions of the
officers of the  regular forces of the United
States.
  Art. 99. All crimes not capital, and all
disorders and  neglects which officers and
soldiers may be guilty of, to the prejudice
of good  order  and military   discipline,
though not mentioned in the foregoing ar-
ticles  of war,  are  to be taken cognizance
of by a general or  regimental court martial,
according to the nature and  degree of the
offence, and be punished at their discretion.
  Art. 100.  The President of the United 
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States shall  have power to  prescribe the
uniform of the army.
  Art. 101. The foregoing articles are to
be read and published once in every six
months, to every garrison, regiment, troop,
or company mustered, or to be mustered
in the  service of the  United  States, and
are to be duly observed  and obeyed, by all
officers and  soldiers who are or shall be in
said service.
   Sec.  2. And be  it  further  enacted,
That in time of war, all persons not citi-
zens of, or owing allegiance to the United
States  of America, who shall  be found
lurking as spies, in or about the fortifica-
tions or encampments of the armies of the
United States, or any of them, shall  suffer
death, according to the  law and  usage of
nations, by  sentence  of a  general  court
martial.
   Sec. 3.  And be  it further  enacted,
That the rules  and regulations, by which
the armies of the United States have  here-
tofore been  governed, and the resolves of
Congress thereunto annexed, and  respect-
ing the same, shall henceforth, be  void and
of no effect, except so far as may relate to  »
any transactions, under  fh~m. prior to the. 
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promulgation  of this act, at the  several
posts and garrisons respectively, occupied
by any part of the army of the  United
States.
              NATHL. MACON,
          Speaker of the House of Representatives:
                S. SMITH,
             President of the Senate, pro tempore.
April 10, 1806.
      Approved,
                TH: JEFFERSON.
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         MILITARY LAWS.

 AN ACT fixing the Military Peace Establishment
             of the United States.

   BE it enacted by the Senate and House
 of Representatives of the United States
 of America in Congress assembled, That
 the  military peace  establishment  of  the
 United States, from  and after the first of
 June next, shall be composed of one regi-
 ment of artillerists and two regiments of in-
 fantry, with such officers,.......and engineers,
 as are hereinafter mentioned.
   Sec.  2. And be it further enacted, That
 the regiment of artillerists shall  consist of
 one  colonel, one  lieutenant colonel,  four
 majors, one adjutant, and twenty compa-
 nies, each company to con»jst of one cap-
 tain, one first lieutenant,  one second lieu-
 tenant,*  two  cadets,  f.......serieants,  four
 corporals, four musicians, eight  artificers,
 and fifty-six privates; to be formed  into
 five battalions: Provided  olicays, Tlust it
 shall be lawful for the  President  of  the
 United  States to retain, with their present
grade, as many of the fiVt lieutenants, now
  * One third lieutenant
  +■ Five. 
4,6
 in  service, as shall amount to the whole
 number of lieutenants required; but that in
 proportion as  vacancies  happen  therein,
 new  appointments  be  made to the grade
 of  second lieutenants until their  numbers
 amount to twenty:  and each  regiment  of
 infantry shall consist of— ( Vide sec I, Act
 26th  June, 1812J
   Sec. 3 And be it further enacted, That
 there shall be  one brigadier general, with
 one aid-de-camp, who  shall be taken from
 the captains or subalterns of the line;.......one
 paymaster of the army, seven paymasters
 and two assistants,  to be attached to such
 districts as the  President  of the United
 States shall direct, to be taken from the line
 of commissioned officers, who in addition
 to their other duties, shall have charge  of
 the clothing bf the troops;.......two surgeons,
 twenty-five surgeons' mates, to be attached
 to garrisons or posts, and not to corps.
  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
 the monthly pay of the officers,  non-com-
 missioned officers, musicians and  privates,
 be as follows, to wit: to the brigadier gene-
 ral, two hundred and twenty-five dollars,
 which shall be his full and entire  compen-
sation, without a right to demand or receive
my rations, forage,  [travelling expenses] 
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tfr other perquisite or emolument whatso,
ever, expect such stationery as may be  re-
quisite  for the use of his department;......to
the paymaster  of the army, one  hundred
and twenty dollars, without any other emo-
lument, except  such stationery as  may  be
requisite in his  department, and the  use of
the public office now occupied  by him; to
the aid-de-camp,  in  addition to his pay in
the line, thirty  dollars; to  each paymaster
attached to districts, and each  assistant to
such paymaster, ten  dollars, in addition to
his pay in the line;......to each colonel, seven-
ty-five  dollars;  to each lieutenant colonel,
sixty dollars; to each major, fifty dollars; to
each surgeon,  forty-five dollars;  to each
surgeon's mate, thirty dollars; to each  ad-
jutant, ten dollars, in addition to his  pay in
the line; to each  captain, forty dollars: to
each first lieutenant, thirty  dollars; to each
second  lieutenant, twenty-five  dollars;* to
each ensign, twenty dollars;  to each  ca-
det.....t  dollars.
   Sec. 5. And  be it further enacted, That
the commissioned  officers aforesaid shall
be entitled  to receive, for  their daily  sub-
sistence, the following number of rations of
provisions: a colonel, s;x  rations; a lieute-
  * Third lieutenant, twenty threr\
  •£ Sixteen. 
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nant colonel, five rations; a major, four ru
tions; a captain, three rations; a lieutenant,
two rations; an ensign, two rations; a  sur
geon, three rations; a surgeon's mate,  two
ratioo?.; a cadet, two rations,  or money in
lieu  sereof, at the option of the said officers
and adets at the posts respectively where
the r tions shall become due;......and each
non-commissioned  officer, musician   and
private, one  ration; to the  commanding
officers of each separate post, such  addition-
al number of rations as the President of the
United States shall, from time to  time, di-
rect, having respect to the special circum-
stances of each  post; to the women who
may be allowed to any particular corps, not
exceeding the  proportion of four to a com-
pany, one ration each; to such matrons  and
nurses  as  may be necessarily employed
in the hospital, one ration  each;.......
   Sec.  6. (lb. sec. 8, Act of Wth Jan.
1812.)
   Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That
the following officers shall, whenever  for-
age is not furnished by the public, receive
at the rate of the following sums per month,
in lieu thereof; each colonel, tw elve dollars;
each lieutenant colonel, eleven dollars; each
major, ten dollars; each adjutant....* dollars;
  * Ten. 
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each surgeon, ten dollars; and  each  sur
geon's mate, six dollars.
  Sec. 8. lb.  sec.  9, Act of  11th  Jan.
1812.
  Sec. 9. Exccitted.
  Sec. 10.  76. sec.  10,  Act of 11th Jan.
1812, and 6Z-th article of war.
  Sec. 11. Annidled.
  Sec. 12. Annulled.
  Sec. 13. lb. sec.  13, Act of 11th Jan,
1812.
  Sec. 14. lb. sec.  14, do.
  Sec. 15. lb. sec.  15, do.
  Sec. 16.  And be  it further enacted,
That the paj master shall perform the du-
ties of his office, agreeably to the direction
of the President of the  United  States, for
the time being; and before he enters on the
duties of the same, shall  give bonds, with
good and sufficient sureties,  in  such  sums
as the President shall direct, for the faithful
discharge of his said office; and shall take
an oath to execute the duties thereof with
fidelity: and it shall, moreover, be his duty
to appoint from the line, with the approba-
tion of the President of the United  States,
the  several paymasters  to  districts,  and
assistants, prescribed by this act; and he  is
hereby authorised  to  require  the  said
                    £ 
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  paymasters to districts, and assistants, to
  enter  into bond, with good and sufficient
  surety, for the faithful discharge of their
  respective duties.
    Sec. 17. Annulled.
    Sec. 18. lb. sec. 16, Act of Uth Jan.
  1812.
    Sec. 19. lb. sec. 17, do.
    Sec. 20. lb sec. 18, do.
    Sec. 21. And be  it further enacted,
  That  whenever  a general court martial
  shall be ordered, the President of the I'nited
  States may appoint some fit person  to act
  as judge advocate,  who shall  be allowed,
  in addition to  his other pay, one dollar and
  twenty five cents for every day he shall be
  necessarily employed in the duties of the
  said court; and in cases where the  Presi-
  dent shall not have made such appointment,
  the brigadier general or the president of the
  court may make the same.
    Sec. 22. H>. sec. 20, do.
    Sec. 23. Annulled.
    Sec. 24. lb. sec.  22, Act of Uth Jan.
■  1812.
    Sec. 25. Executed,
    Sec. 26. And be  it further enacted,
  That the President of the United States is
  hereby authorised  and empowered,  when 
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  he shall deem it expedient, to organize and
  establish a coqrs of engineers, to consist of
  one  engineer, with  the  pay, rank,  and
  emoluments of a major; two assistant en-
  gineers, with thepay,rank,andemolumet ts
  of captains; two other  assistant engineers,
  with the pay, rank, and emoluments of first
  lieutenants; two other  assistant engineers,
  with the  pay,  rank, and emoluments of
  second  lieutenants; and ten cadets, with
  the  pay of sixteen dollars  per month, and
  two rations per  day:  and the President of
  the  United States  is, in like manner, au-
  thorised, when he shall deem it proper, to
  make such promotions in the said corps,
  with a view to particular merit, and with-
  out  regard to rank, so as not to exceed one
  colonel, one lieutenant colonel, [two majors,
  four captains, four first  lieutenants, four se-
  cond lieutenants, and so as that the number
  of the whole corps  shall, at no time, exceed
  twenty officers and cadets]
    Sec.  27. And be it further  enacted,
'  That the  said corps, when so organized,
  shall be stationed at West Point,  in the
  state of New York, and shall  constitute
  a military academy;  and the  engineers,
  assistant engineers, and cadets of the said
  corps, shall be subject,  at all times, to.  do 
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duty in  such places, and  on such service,
as the President of the United  States shall
direct.
   Sec. 28. And be it further enacted, That
the principal engineer, and  in  his absence
the next in rank, shall have the superin-
tendence  of the  said military  academy,
under the direction of the  President of the
United  States;  and the Secretary of War
is hereby authorised, at the public expense,
under such regulations as  shall be directed
by the President of the United  States, to
procure the necessary books, implements,
and apparatus for the use  and benefit of the
said institution.
   Sec. 29. To  repeal.
     16th March, 1802.
AN ACT in addition to an act, entitled << An ait
  fixing the  Military Peace Establishment oi" the
  United States."

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
there be added to the regiment of artillerists,
two teachers of music, whose pay, rations,
and  clothing, shall  be the same  as is by 
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law allowed to the teachers of musie in the
regiments of infantry in the  service of the
United States.
  Sec. 2.  And be it further enacted, That
the President of the United  States be, and
he is hereby authorised to appoint one teach-
er of the French language, and one teach-
er of drawing, to be attached to the corps
of engineers,  whose  compensation  shall
not exceed the  pay and emoluments of a
captain in the line of the army.
  Sec. 3.  And be it further enacted, That-
the commanding officer of the corps of en-
gineers, be authorised to enlist for a  term,
not less than three years, one artificer, and
eighteen  men,  to aid in making practical
experiments and for other  purposes; to re-
ceive the  same  pay, rations, and  clothing
as are allowed to the  artificers  and  pri-
vates in  the army of the United States;
and the same bounty when enlisted for five
years; and to be subject to the rules and
articles of w ar.

     2«th  February, 1803.
E 2 
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 AN  ACT in addition to " An act for fixing the Mi-
  litary Peace Establishment of the United States."

   BE  it  enacted  by  the  Senate and
 House of Representatives  of the United
 States of America in Congress assembled,
 That there shall be  appointed,  in  addition
 to the surgeons' mates provided for by the
 " Act fixing  the military  peace establish-
 ment of the United  States,"  as many sur-
 geons' mates, not exceeding six, as the
 President of the United  States may  judge
 necessary, to  be attached to the garrisons
 or posts, agreeably to the provisions of the
 said act.
   Sec. 2. And be it further  enacted, That
 an equivalent  in malt liquor or low wines,
 may be supplied the  troops of the United
 States, instead  of the rum, whiskey, or
 brandy, which, by the said act,  is made a
 component part of a ration,  at  such posts
and garrisons, and at  such seasons of the
year, as, in the opinion of the  President of
the United States, may he  necessary for
the nre<«Tvation of their health.
March 26, 1804, 
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 AN ACT to raise, for a limited time, an additional
               Military Force.

   BE it enacted by the Senate and House
 of Representatives of the  United States
 of America in Congress assembled,  That
 in addition to the present  military esta-
 blishment  of the  United States, there be
 raised five regiments of infantry, one regi-
 ment of riflemen, one regiment of light ar-
 tillery, and.......to be enlisted for the term
 of five years, unless sooner discharged.
   Sec. 2.  And be it further enacted, That
 the said regiments of infantry, riflemen,
 and artillery, shall consist of ten companies
 each, and the regiment of light dragoons of
 eight  troops;* and the field  and staff of-
 ficers of each regiment, of one colonel, one
 lieutenant colonel,.......t one  adjutant, one
 quarter  master, one paymaster, one  sur-
 geon.......+ one serjeant major, one quarter
 master  serjeant,  two principal  musicians,
and for the regiment of light dragoons, one
riding master; each company of infantry
and riflemen to consist of onr* captain, one
first  and  one  second lieutenant,  §  one

  * Vide Act 30th March 1811.
  f Two majors.
  | Two sin peons' mates-.
  .$ One third lieutenant. 
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ensign, two cadets.......* Serjeants, four eor-
porals,t  two  musicians,  and  sixty  eight
privates;! each company of artillery, ........
( Vide sec. 4, Act of 26th June, 1812, and
30th March, 1814.)
   Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
when, in the opinion of the President of the
United States, a suitable proportion  of the
troops authorised by this act shall be rais-
ed, there may be appointed two  addition-
al brigadier generals, who shall be entitled
to one aid-de camp each, to be  taken from
the subalterns  of the line; two  brigade in-
spectors, and two brigade quarter-masters;
and such number of hospital surgeons and
surgeons' mates, as the  service may re-
quire, but not exceeding five surgeons and
fifteen mates,  with one  steward, and one
wardmaster to each hospital: the brigade
inspectors  appointed under this  act, shall
be  taken from the line,  and the brigade
quartermasters, the  adjutants,  regimental
quartermasters  and  paymasters,  from the
subalterns of the line.
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the  compensation of the oflicers, cadets,

  * Five.
  f Six for infantry.
  t Ninety for ditto. 
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r.on■ commissioned officers, musicians, arti-
fices, and privates, authorised by this  act,
shall  be, viz: to each  brigadier general,
one hundred and four dollars per  month,
twelve rations per day, or an equivalent in
money, and sixteen dollars per  month for
forage*, when not furnished by  the  public;
each  brigade inspector,  thirty  dollars per
month, in addition to his pay in the line;
each  brigade quartermaster  and  aid-de-
camp twenty dollars, and each adjutant,
regimental  quartermaster and  paymaster,
ten dollars per month, in addition to their
pay  in the line,  and to each,* ........  per
month for  forage, when not furnished as
aforesaid; each  hospital  surgeon,  seven-
ty five dollars per month, six  rations per
day, or an equivalent in money, and twelve
dollars per  month  for forage,   when  not
furnished as aforesaid; each hospital sur-
geon's mate, forty dollars per month, two
rations per  day, or an equivalent in money,
and six dollars per month for forage, when
not furnished as aforesaid;  each hospital
steward, twenty dollars  per month and
two  rations  per day, or an  equivalent in
money; each ward-master, sixteen  dollars

  * Vide Act of July 22, 1813. 
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per month and two rations per day, or an
equivalent in money; to the colonel of light
dragoons, ninety dollars per month, six ra-
tions per day,  and forage for live  horses;
to the lieutenant colonel of light dragoons,
seventy-five dollars per month, five  rations
per day, and forage for four horses;  to  the
major of light  dragoons,  sixty dollars per
month, four rations per day and forage  for
four horses; to each  captain of light dra-
goons, fifty dollars per month, three rations
per  day, and  forage  for three horses;  to
each lieutenant of light  dragoons, thirty-
three and  one third*  dollars  per  month,
two rations  per  day, and forage for two
horses;  to  each cornet of light dragoons,
twenty six   and  two  thirds  dollars  per
month, two rations per day, and forage  for
two horses; to the  riding master, twenty
six  and two third-; dollars per month, two
rations per day, and forage for two  hors-
es;  each saddler and  farrier,  ten  dollars
per month,  one ration  per day, and a suit
of uniform clothing annually; and all other
officers, cadets, non-commissioned officers,
musicians, artificers, and  privates authori-
sed by this act, shall receive  the  like pay,

  *  Third lieutenants, thirty. 
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clothing, rations,  forage and other emolu
ments, as the oflicers, cadets, non-commis
sioned officers, musicians,  artificers, and
privates of the present military establish-
ment:  Provided,  The officers and riding
master furnish their own horses and accou-
trements, and actually keep  in  service the
aforesaid number  of horses, to entitle them
to the foregoing allowance for forage, or its
equivalent in money: And provided also,
That the whole or any part of the regiment
of light dragoons shall be liable to serve en
foot as light infantry, until, by order of the
President of the United States,  horses ar.d
accoutrements shall  be provided to  equip
the whole or any  part thereof as mounted
dragoons.
  Sec. 5. Enumerating the provisions cf
the act of 16th March, 1802.
  Sec. 6. lb. sec.  23, Act of Uth Jan,
1812.
  Sec. 7.  lb. sec. 24. do.
  Sec. 8. Executed.
  Sec. 9. And be  it further enacted, That
every commissioned and staff officer  to  be
appointed in  virtue of this act,  shall be a
citizen of the United States, or some one
of the territories thereof.
April 12, 1808. 
GO
  A> ACT to raioe an additional Military Ft-rcc.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House.
of  Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled.  That
there be immediately raised.......* regiments
of infantry,........to be enlisted for the term
of five years, unless sooner discharged.
  Sec. 2. Vide Act 30th March, 1811.
  Sec. 3. And be  it further enacted, That
to each regiment [of infantry] raised under
this act, there shall be appointed one colonel,
two lieutenant colonels, two majors, two ad-
jutants, one  quartermaster, one paymaster,
one surgeon, two surgeons' mates, two ser-
jeant majors,  two quartermaster Serjeants,
and two senior musicians.
  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
there shall be appointed two major  gene-
rals, each of whom shall  be allowed two
aids,........and five brigadier generals, each
of wdiom shall be  allowed a brigade major
and an aid,  to be  taken  from the captains
and subalterns of the line;........there shall
also be appointed  such  number of hospital

  * Twenty-five, by Act of 26th  June, 1S12, Nine-
teen, by Acts of January 29, 1813, and 25th Februa-
ry,  1813, and the number unlimited by Act of  March
3Q,  1814.                          J 
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surgeons and mates  as the  service may
require, with one steward to each hospital.
   Sec. 5. Annulled.
   Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
the major generals respectively, shall be en-
titled to two hundred dollars monthly pay,
with twenty dollars allowance for forage,
monthly, and fifteen rations per day. Their
aids-de-camp  shall each  be entitled  to
twenty four dollars monthly, in addition  to
their pay in the line, and ten dollars month- v«
ly for forage, and four rations. The briga-
dier generals, respectively, shall be entitled
to one hundred and four dollars monthly
pay, twelve rations per day, and  sixteen
dollars  per  month for forage, when not
found by the public.
   Sec. 7. Vide Act 6th July, 1812.
   Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
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, one gill of rum, whiskey, or bran-
dy, and at  the rate of two quarts of salt,
four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap,
and  one pound and a half of candles,  to
every hundred rations.
   Sec. 9. Vide Act 30th March, 1814.
                   F 
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  Sec.  10. And be it further enacted,
That  the officers, non-commissioned of-
ficers, musicians, and privates of the said
corps, shall be governed by the rules and
articles of war, which have been  establish-
ed by the United  States in Congress as-
sembled, or  by such rules and articles as
may be hereafter, by law, established.
  Sec. 11. Repealed.
  Sec.  12.  And be it further enacted,
(Vide Act 27th January 1814J........And
whenever any non-commissioned officer or
soldier  shall" be discharged from the ser-
vice,  who shall have  obtained from the
commanding officer  of his company, bat-
talion, or regiment, a certificate that he had
faithfully performed his duty whilst in ser-
vice,  he  shall moreover be  allowed and
paid, in addition to  the said bounty, three
months' pay and  one hundred  and sixty
acres of land; and the heirs and represen-
tatives of those  non-commissioned officci'S
or soldiers, who may be killed in action  or
die  in  the  service of the  United States,
shall likewise be paid and allowed the said
addirional bounty of three months'  pay and
one hundred and sixty acres of land, to  be
designated,  surveyed,  and laid off at the
public expense, in such maimer, and upon. 
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such terms and conditions, as may  be  pro-
vided by law.
   Sec.  13.  And be  it further enacted,
That the said corps shall be paid  in such
manner, that the arrears shall, at no time,
exceed  two months,  unless the   circum-
stances  of the case shall render it unavoid-
able.
   Sec.  14.  And be  it further enacted,
That if any officer, non-commissioned of-
ficer, musician, or private, shall be disabled
by wounds or otherwise, while in the  line
of his duty  in public  sendee, he shall be
placed on the list of invalids of the United
States, at  such rate of pension, and under
such regulations as arc or may be.directed
by law:  Provided ahvays,  That the com-
pensation  to be  allowed for such wounds
or disabilities,  to a commissioned officer,
shall not exceed for the highest rate of disa-
bility, half the monthly pay of such officer,
at the time of his being disabled or wound-
ed; and that no  officer shall receive more
than the half  pay of  a lieutenant  colonel;
and that the rate of compensation  to non-
commissioned officers, musicians, and pri
vates, shall not exceed five dollars per
month:  And provided  also,  That all in-
ferior disabilities shall  entitle the  persons 
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 so disabled to receive an allowance propor-
 tion; tc to the highest disability.
    Sec.  15.  And  be it further enacted,
 That if any commissioned officer, in the
 military establishment of the United States,
 shall, while  in  the  service of the United
 States, die, by reason of any wound receiv-
 ed in actual service of the Uffitcd  States,
 and leave a widow, or if no widow, a child
. or children  under sixteen  years of age,
 such widow, or if no widow, such child or
 children, shall be entitled to receive half
 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
 case of the death or  intermarriage of such
 widow, before  the  expiration  of the said
 term of five years, the half pay  for the re-
 mainder of the time shall  go to  the child
 or children of such deceased officer:  Pro-
 vided alu-ays.  That  such half pay  shall
 cease on the decease of such  child or chil-
 dren.
    Sec.  16.  And  be it further enacted,
 That if any non-commissioned officer, mu-
 sician, or  private, shall desert  the service
 of the United States, he shall,  in addition
 to the penalties mentioned in the rules and
 articles of war, be liable to serve for and 
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during such a period as shall, with the time
he may have served previous to his  deser-
tion, amount to  the foil term of his  enlist-
ment; and such soldier shall and may be
tried  by a court martial,  and  punished,
although the term  of his enlistment may
have elapsed previous to  his being  appre-
hended or tried.
   Sec.  17.  And be it further  enacted,
That  every person, not subject to the rules
and articles of war, who shall procure or
entice a soldier, in the service of the United
States,  to  desert;  or who shall purchase
from  any soldier, his arms,  uniform cloth-
ing, or any part thereof; and every captain
or commanding officer of any ship or  ves-
sel, who shall enter on board such ship or
vessel as one of his crew, knowing him to
have  deserted,  or otherwise carry away
any such soldier, or shall refuse  to deliver
him up to the  orders of his commanding
officer, shall,  upon  legal  conviction, be
fined  at the discretion of any court  having
cognizance  of  the same, in any sum  not
exceeding  three hundred  dollars, and be
imprisoned  any term not  exceeding one
year.
   Sec. 18.  And  be it further enacted,
That everv officer, non-commissioned offi-
                   f 2 
bb
 ccr, musician, and  private, shall  take and
 subscribe the following oath or affirmation,
 to wit:  I, A.  B. do solemnly swear or af-
 firm (as the case may be) that I will  bear
 true faith  and  allegiance to the United
 States of America, and  that I will  serve
 them honestly and faithfully against their
 enemies or opposers whomsoever; and that
 I will observe and obey  the orders of the
 President of the United States, and the or-
 ders of the officers appointed over me, ac-
 cording to the rules  and articles of war.
  Sec.  19.  And be it  further  enacted,
 That there shall be appointed to each divi-
 sion a judge advocate, who shall be enti-
 tled to the same pay and  emoluments as a
 major in the infantry; or, if taken from the
 line of the army, shall be entitled  to thirty
 dollars per month,  in addition to  his pay,
 and  the same allowance for forage  as Is
 allowed by law for a major of infantry.
  Sec.  20.  And be it further  enacted,
 That where any  commissioned officer shall
be obliged to  incur any  extra expense in
travelling  and  sitting on general courts
martial, he shall be allowed a reasonable
compensation for such extra expense actu-
ally incurred, not exceeding one dollar and
twenty-five cents per day to officers  who 
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 are not entitled to forage, and not  exceed-
 ing one dollar per day to such as shall be
 entitled to forage.
   Sec. 21. Annulled.
   Sec.  22. And be it further  enacted,
 That whenever any officer or soldier shall
 be discharged from the service, except by
 way of punishment for any offence, he shall
 be allowed his pay and rations, or an equi-
 valent in money, for  such  term of time as
 sliall be sufficient for  him to travel from the
 place of discharge to  the place of his resi-
 dence, computing at  the rate of twenty
 miles to a day.
   Sec.  23. And be it further  enacted,
 That the subsistence of the officers of the
 army, when not received in kind,  shall be
 estimated at twenty cents per ration.
   Sec. 24  And be it further enacted,
 That there shall be appointed to each bri-
 gade, one  chaplain,  who shall be  entitled
 to the same pay and emoluments as a ma-
jor in the infantry.
   Sec.  25.  And be  it further  enacted,
 That no general, field, or staff officer, who
 may  be  appointed   by virtue of  this act,
 shall  be entitled to receive  any  pay or
 emol iments until he  sliall be called into 
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actual service; nor for any longer time than
he shall continue therein.

  January 11, 1812.
AN ACT supplementary to " An act to raise, for a
  limited time, an additional militay to. ce," passed
  on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight
  hundred and eight.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the  United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
whenever, in the opinion of the President
of the  United States, it is expedient to
mount the light artillery, or any part there-
of, horses and accoutrements shall be pro-
vided to equip the whole or  such part as he
may  direct;  and when the non-commis-
sioned  officers,  musicians,  artificers,  and
privates are so equipped, the officers  shall
be entitled to the same forage  as is  now
provided for the officers of the same grade
in the regiment  of light dragoons:  Pro-
tided, The officers  furnish their own hors-
es and accoutrements, and actually  keep
in service the same  number of horses to
entitle them to the aforesaid allowance for
forage or its equivalent in money. 
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  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
whenever the said light artillery are order
ed to be mounted, there shall  be provided
one saddler  and one  farrier to each com-
pany, who  shall be  entitled  to the same
pay'and emoluments as are now provided
for saddlers  and farriers in the regiment ot
light dragoons.

  February 2t, 1812.
AN ACT to establish a Quartermasters' Depart-
         ment, and for other purposes.

   Sec. 1. Repealed,
   Sec. 2. Repealed.
   Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
in addition to their duties in  the field, it
shall be the  duty of the quartermaster  ge-
neral, his deputies and assistant deputies,
when thereto directed by the  Secretary of
War, to  purchase  military  stores,  camp
equipage and other articles requisite for the
troops;" and generally to procure and pro-
vide means of transport  for the army, its
stores, artillery and camp equipage.  That
the quartermaster general shall account, as
often as may be required, and at least once 
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in three  months, with the Department  of
War, in such manner as shall be prescribed,
for all property which may pass through
his hands, (or the hands of the subordinate
officers in his department, or that may be
in his or  their care or possession, and for
all monies which he or they may expend
in discharging their respective duties;  that
he  shall  be  responsible for the  regularity
and correctness of all returns in his depart
ment,] and  that he, his  deputies and as-
sistant deputies, before they enter on the
execution of their respective offices,  shall
severally take an oath faithfully to perform
the duties thereof.
   Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That
there shall be a commissary general of pur-
chases, and  as many deputy commissaries
as, in the opinion of the President of the
United States, the public service  may re-
quire, to be appointed by the President, by
and with the advice and  consent of the
Senate.
   Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the commissary ge-
neral of purchases, under the direction and
supervision  of the  Secretary of War,  to
conduct the  procuring and providing of all
arms, military stores, clothing, and general- 
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 ly all  articles of supply  requisite for the
 military service of the United  States; and
 it shall be the duty of the  deputy commis-
 saries, when directed thereto, either by the
 Secretary of War, the commissary general
 of purchases, or, in case of necessity, by the
 commanding general, quartermaster gene-
 ral, or deputy quartermasters,  to purchase
 all such of the aforesaid articles as may be
 requisite for  the military service  of the
 United States.
   Sec. 6. Repealed by Act 22d May, 1812.
   Sec. 7. And be it further enacted,  That
 the salary of the commissary  general of
 purchases  shall  be three  thousand  dollars
 per annum;  and the compensation to  a de-
 puty commissary shall not exceed two and
 one half per centum on the public monies
 disbursed by him, nor in any instance, the
^ Sum of two thousand dollars per annum.
   Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
 the commissary general of purchases  shall,
 before he enters upon his duties, give bond
 with sufficient surety, to be approved  of by
 the Secretary of War,  in  the  sum of fifty
 thousand dollars; and  the deputy  commis-
 saries  each  in  the  sum  of ten thousand
 dollars, with condition   for  the  faithful
 performance of the claries of their  office 
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respectively, which bonds shall be lodged
with the Comptroller of the Treasury.
   Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
from and after the last day of May next,
so much of the  act, entitled, " An act to
establish the office of purveyor of public
supplies," as  relates to  the appointment
and services of a  purveyor of public sup-
plies, be, and  the same is hereby repealed;
and in the mean time, the purveyor shall
deliver over to the commissary general or
one of his deputies, the public stores and
property of  all sorts  in his possession, who
shall receipt to him for the same.
   Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That
all letters and packets  to and  from  the
quartermaster  general and commissary ge-
neral, shall be free from postage.
   Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That
there be allowed for the compensation of
the necessary  clerks in  the quartermaster
general's office, a sum not exceeding fifteen
hundred dollars a  year; and  for tiie com-
pensation of the clerks of  the commissary
general,  a sum  not  exceeding seventeen
hundred  dollars  per annum,  with such
books and stationery as may  be necessary
to the  quartermaster general's and  com
missary general's department* 

  See. 12. And be it further enacted, That
the quartermaster general be  authorised to
appoint a principal waggon master, and as
many  waggon masters as  he may judge
necessary for the service of the army, not
exceeding one to each brigade, whose duty
shall be, under the direction of the quarter-
master general or any  of his deputies, to
provide and conduct  the  waggons  and
other  means  of transport  necessary and
proper for the military service of the United
States.
  Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That
no waggon master shall directly or  indi-
rectly  be  concerned or interested in any
waggon or  means of transport  employed
in the  service of the United States; nor in
the purchase or sale of any horses, harness,
waggons, or other means of transport, pro-
cured  for,  or  belonging to  the United
 States, except as agent  for the United
 States.
   Sec. 14. Andbcit further enacted, That
the principal waggon  master shall  be en-
titled  to receive  forty dollars per month,
three rations per day, and forage for one
horse; and  each  waggon master shall be
entitled to receive thirty dollars per  month, 
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two rations per day,  and forage for one
horse.
   Sec. 15.  And be it further enacted, 1 fiat
the quartermaster general be authorised to
appoint one principal  forage  master, and
as  many  assistant forage  masters as the
nature of  the  service  may  require, not
exceeding one to each brigade, whose duty
shall be, under the direction of the quarter-
master general or any of his deputies, to
provide and deliver out forage necessary
and proper for the military service  of the
United  States;  nor shall any forage master
be directly or  indirectly concerned  in the
purchase or sale  of any article of  forage
procured for or belonging to the United
States, except as an agent for the United
States.
   Sec. lb\  And be it further enacted, That
the principal forage master shall be entitled
to  and receive forty  dollars per month,
three rations per day, and forage for two
horses;  and that the  other forage masters
shall be entitled to and receive thirty  dollars
per month, two rations per day, and forage
for one horse.
   Sec. 17.  And be it further enacted,That
there shall be  four conductors of artillery,
who  shall be appointed by the  President 
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alone, each of whom shall  be entitled  to
the pay and emoluments of a lieutenant of
artillery.
   Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That
this act shall go into operation  on the first
day of April next; and that so much of the
act fixing the military peace establishment
of the United  States, as respects the ap-
pointment of military agents and assistant
military agents, be,  and  the same is hereby
repealed, from and  after that day; but all
those agents shall continue to perform their
respective duties  in the mean  time,  and
until the deputy and assistant deputy quar-
termasters shall be appointed and ready  to
enter  on the execution  of their respective
offices;  to whom the said military agent6
and assistant military agents shall then de-
liver all the  public  stores and property  in
their possession.
   Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That
all persons attached to  the public  service
by virtue of this act, shall be  subject  to
military law, except the deputy commissa*
ries.
   Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That
the President  may, and he hereby is au-
thorised, in  the recess  of the  Senate,  to
appoint the  quartermaster general,, deputy 
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quartermasters, commissary  general  and
deputy  commissaries, or  any  of them;
which appointments shall  be submitted to
the Senate at  their next  session, for their
advice and consent.

  March 28, 1812.
   AN ACT for the organization of a Corps of
                Artificers.

  BE it enacted by the Senate, and House
of Representatives of the  United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
there shall  be attached to the quartermas-
ter general's department, and subject to the
orders of the officers thcreo'., a corps of ar-
tificers, to consist of one superintendent, to
be appointed by the President of the Un:t'd
States, four a^istants, two  master masons,
two master carpenters, two master black-
smiths, two master boat builders, two mas-
ter armorers, two  master saddle  and har-
ness makers, twenty house  carpenters, five
ship carpenters, twenty  blacksmiths, six-
teen boat builders, sixteen armorers, twelve
saddle  and  harness  makers, and  twenty-
four laborers, to  be selected from the 
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privates  of the army, when  authorised
thereto  by the  commanding  general,  or
engaged from among  the citizens by the
superintendent.
  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
Ihe pay  of the  superintendent  of artificers
shall be forty-five dollars per month, three
rations per day, and forage for one horse;
that the  pay of the four assistants be  each
thirty dollars per month, and  two rations
per day; that the pay of the twelve master
workmen be each thirty dollars per month,
and one ration and one half of a ration per
day;  that the pay of the other workmen be
each sixteen  dollars per month,  and one
ration and one half of a ration  per day.
  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the superintendent of
artificers to render a  correct report, once
each month,  of the corps, to the quarter-
master general,  and on oath to make out
the pay roll thereof; which pay  roll shall be
examined by the quartermaster general, or,
in his absence, by one of the deputy quar-
termasters, and by him be countersigned,
and faithfully and w ithout delay to execute
all such  orders as he may receive  from the
Secretary at War, any officer of the quar-
termaster's department, or from the officer
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commanding in the  field or  garrisen  to
which his corps or any part thereof may
be attached.
  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
this corps shall be engaged for and during
the term of three  years, unless sooner dis-
charged by the President  of the  United
States.
  Sec. 5. Executed.

  April 23, 1812.
AN ACT making further provision for the corgs
               of Engineers.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled. That
there be added to the corps of engineers,
two captains, two first lieutenants, two se-
cond lieutenants, with the usual pay and
emoluments, according to their grades re-
spectively, and one paymaster, to be taken
from the subalterns of engineers, with the
pay and emoluments of  a regimental  pay-
master; and that  there be attached to the
said corps, either from  the troops  now in
service,  or  by  new enlistments, as the 
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President of the United States may direct,
four  Serjeants, four corporals, one teacher
of music, four musicians, nineteen artificers,
and  sixty-two men, which non-commis-
sioned officers, musicians,  artificers,  and
men, together with the artificers and men
already belonging to the corps of engineers,
shall  be  formed  into  a company,  to be
styled a company of bombardiers, sappers,
and  miners,  and be  officered  from the
corps of  engineers, according as the com-
manding officer  of that corps may, with
the approbation  of the  President of the.
United States, direct; and the  said  non-
commissioned officers, musicians, artificers,
and  men, shall be allowed the  same pay
and  emoluments as are allowed to the non-
commissioned officers, musicians, artificers,
and  men in the regiment of artillerists.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the  military academy  shall  consist of the
corps  of engineers, and the following pro-
fessors, in addition to the teachers of the
 French language and drawing already pro-
 vided, viz. one professor of natural and ex-
 perimental  philosophy, with the pay and
 emoluments of  a lieutenant colonel  if not
 an officer of the corps, and if taken from
 the  corps, then so much in addition to  hrs 
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pay and emoluments as shall  equal those
of  a lieutenant culonel; one professor of
mathematics, with the pay and emoluments
of a major if not an officer ot the corps,
and if taken from the corps, then so much
in addition to his  pay and  emoluments as
shall equal those of a major; one professor
of the art of engineering in all its branches,
with the pay and emoluments  of a major,
if not an officer of the corps, and if taken
from the corps, then so much in addition to
his pay and emoluments, as shall be equal
to those of a  major;  each of the foregoing
professors to have an  assistant  professor,
which assistant professor  shall  be taken
from the most prominent characters of the
officers or cadets,  and receive the pay and
cmo'uments of captains, and no other pay
or  pmoluments   while  performing these
duties- Provided,  That nothing herein con-
tained shall entitle the academical staff, as
such, to any  command in the army sepa-
rate from the academy.
   Sec. 3.  And be  it further enacted, That
the cadets heretofore  appointed in the  ser-
vce of the United States, whether of artil-
lery, cavalry, riflemen, or infantry, or  that
may in future be  appointed as hereinafter
provided,  shall at no time exceed  two 
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hundred and filly; that they may be attach-
ed, at the discretion of the  President of the
United States, as students to the  military
academy, and  be subject to the established
regulations  thereof;  that they  shall be ar-
ranged into companies of non-commission-
ed officers  and  privates, according to the
directions of the commandant of engineers,
and  be officered from the said  corps, for
the purposes  of military  instruction; that
there  shall  be  added  to each  compain  of
cadets four musicians; and the said corps
shall be trained and taught all  the duties of
a  private, non-commissioned  officer, and
officer; be encamped at least three months
of each year, and taught all the duties inci-
dent to a regular camp: that the candidates
for cadets be not under the age of fourteen,
nor above  the age of twenty-one years;
that each cadet, previously to  his  appoint-
ment by the President of the United States,
shall be well  versed  in  reading,  writing,
and arithmetic, and that he shall sign arti-
cles,  with  the  consent of his  parent  or
guardian,  by  which  he  shall engage  to
serve five years, unless sooner discharged;
and all such cadets shall be entitled to and
receive  the pay  and emoluments  now 
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allowed by law  to cadets  in the corps of
engineers
  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
when any cadet shall receive a regular  de-
gree from  the academical staff, after going
through all the classes, he shall be consi-
dered as among the candidates for a com-
mission in any corps, according to the  du-
ties he may be adjudged competent to per-
form; and  in case there shall not at the time
be  a vacancy in such corps, he may  be
attached to it at the discretion of  the Presi-
dent of the United States, by brevet of the
lowest grade, as a supernumerary officer,
with the usual pay and emoluments of such
grade, until a vacancy shall happen: Pro-
vided, That there shall not be more than
one supernumerary officer to any one com-
pany at the same time.
  Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be,
and the same is hereby appropriated, to be
paid out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise  appropriated, for erecting build-
ings, and for providing an  apparatus, a li-
brary  and all necessary implements, and
for such  contingent  expenses as may  be
necessary  and proper, in the judgment of 
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the President  of the United States,  for
such an institution.
   Sec. 6.  And be it further enacted, That
so much of the twenty-sixth section of the
act, entitled, " An act  fixing the military
 Seace establishment," passed the sixteenth
 larch, one thousand eight  hundred  and
two, as confines the selection of the com-
mander of the corps of engineers  to  the
said corps,be, and the same  is hereby re-
pealed.

   April 29, 1812.
AN ACT to provide for designating, sun-eying, and
       granting the military bounty lands.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the President of the United States be, and
he is hereby authorised to cause  to be sur-
veyed a quantity of the public lands of the
United States, fit for cultivation, not other-
wise appropriated, and to which the  In-
dian title is extinguished, not  exceeding in
the whole  six  millions of acres,  two mil-
lions to  be surveyed in  the territory of 
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Michigan, two millions  in the Illinois  ter-
ritory north of the  Illinois river, and two
millions in the  territory of Louisiana, be
twecn the river St. Francis and the river
Arkansas; the said lands to be divided into
towushi,,s, and subdivided  into  sections
and quarter sections, (each quarter section
to contain, as near as possible, one hundred
and sixty acres,) in the manner  prescribed
by law for surveying and subdividing the
other public  finds of the United  States;
the same price to be allowed for surveying
as is fixed for  surveying  the other public
lands in the same territory.  And the lands
thus surveyed  with the  exception of the
salt  springs  and  lead mines therein,  and
o* the quantities of land adjacent thereto, as
may be reserved  for  the use of the same,
by the President of the United States, and
the section number sixteen in every town-
ship to be granted  to the  inhabitants of
such township, for the use  of public schools,
shall  be set  apart and reserved  for the
purpose of satisfying the bounties of one
hundred and sixty acres, promised to the
non commissioned  officers  and  soldiers
of the United States, their heirs  and legal
representatives, by the act  entitled " An
act for completing the existing military 
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 establishment,4' approved the twenty-fourth
 day of December, one thousand eight hun-
 dred  and eleven, and by the act, entitled
 " An act to raise  an additional military
 force,"  approved  the  eleventh  day  of
 January, one thousand eight hundred and
 twelve.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
 the Secretary for the Department of War,
 for the time being, shall, from time to  time
 issue warrants for the military land boun-
 ties, to persons entitled thereto by the two
 last mentioned acts, or either of them: Pro-
 vided always, That such warrants shall be
 issued only  in the names of the persons
 thus entitled, and be by them or their repre-
 sentatives, applied  for within  five years
 after the said  persons shall have become
 entitled thereto; and the said warrants shall
 not be assignable or  transferrable in any
 manner whatever.
  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
 every person in whose favor such warrants
 shall have been  issued, shall, on  delivery
of the same at the office of the Secretary
of the  Treasury, or of such other officer as
may at the time have,  by law, the  superin-
tendence of the general land office  of the
 United States at  the  scat  of government,
                   n 
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be entitled to draw by lot in such manner
as the officer at the head of  the land office,
under the direction of the President of the
United  States, may prescribe, one of the
quarter sections surveyed by virtue of the
first section of this act, in either of the  said
territories which the said person  in whose
favor such warrant has  issued may desig-
nate.   And  a  patent shall  thereupon be
granted  to  such person, for such quarter
section, w ithout requiring any fee therefor.
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
no claim  for  the  military  land bounties
aforesaid, shall be assignable or transferra-
ble in any manner whatever, until after  a
patent shall have been granted in the man-
ner aforesaid.   All  sales, mortgages, con-
tracts, or agreements, of any nature what-
ever, made prior thereto, for the purpose,
or with the intent of alienating,  pledging,
or mortgaging any such claim, are hereby
declared and shall be held  null  and void;
nor shall  any tract of land, granted as
aforesaid, be liable to be taken in execution
or sold on account of any such sale, mort-
gage, contract, or agreement, or on account
of any debt contracted prior to the  date of
the patent, either by the person originally
entitled to the land, or by nis heirs or legal 
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representatives, or by virtue of any process
or suit at law, or judgment of court against
a person entitled to receive  his patent as
aforesaid.

  May 6, 1812.
AN ACT for the better regulation of the Ordnance.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the  United Slates
of America in Congress assembled,  That
there  be,  and  hereby is  established  an
Ordnance Department, to consist of a com-
missary general of ordnance, an assistant
commissary general,........*  deputy commis-
saries and as many assistant  deputy  com-
missaries  as the  President of the United
States may think necessary, not exceeding
eight.
  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the commissary general be authorised, from
time to time/to employ as many wheel-
wrights, carriage makers, blacksmiths and
laborers, as the public service may, in his
judgment, require.
* Nine. 
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  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the  commissary  general of ordnance shall
be entitled to the rank, pay, and emolu-
ments of a colonel of infantry, and be fur-
ther  allowed at the rate of five hundred
dollars per year, and four rations per day
for clerks in  his department; the assistant
commissary general  of ordnance shall be
entitled to the rank, pay, and emoluments
of major of infantry,  with three  additional
rations per day; the deputy commissaries
of ordnance shall be entitled to the  rank,
pay, and emoluments of a captain of infan-
try,  with two additional rations per day,
and forage for one horse; the assistant  de-
puties shall have the rank,  pay,  and emo-
luments........*
  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
a master wheelwright and carriage maker/
and a master blacksmith, be allowed thir-
ty dollars, each, per month, and one ration
and  one half a ration  per day; that any
other wheelwrights, carriage  makers, and
blacksmiths, be allowed each sixteen dol-
lars  per month,  and one  ration and one
half of a ration  per day; that the laborers
each  be allowed nine dollars  per month
* Of a first lieutenant ojf infantry. 
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and one  ration per day.  Vide  Act 30th
March 1814.
  Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the commissary  ge-
neral  of  ordnance to  direct the  inspection
and proving of all pieces of ordnance, can-
non balls, shells, and shot, procured for the
use of the army of the United States; and
to direct the construction of all  carriages,
and every apparatus for ordnance, for gar-
rison and field service, and all ammunition
waggons, pontoons, and travelling  forges;
also,  the direction of the laboratories,  the
inspection and proving the public powder,
and the preparing all kinds of ammunition
for garrison and  field service;  and shall,
half yearly, examine  all ordnance, carria-
ges,  ammunition, and apparatus,  in  the
respective fortresses, magazines, and arse-
nals, and cause the same to  be  preserved
and kept in good order.
   Sec. 6. And be it further enacted,. That
the commissary  general of ordnance  shall
execute all orders issued by  the Secretary
for the Department of War, [in  conveying
all ordnance, ammunition, and  apparatus,
to the respective  armies, garrisons, maga-
zines, and arsenals;] and in time of war he
shaU execute all orders of any general officer
                   II 2 
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 commanding  in  any  army  or  garrison,
 for the supply of ordnance, ammunition,
 carriages, pontoons, forges, furnaces, or ap-
 paratus for garrison, field or siege service,
 and [forward the same without delay,  and
 in good condition.]
   Sec. 7. And be it further enacted,That
 the commissary  general of ordnance shall
 half yearly transmit to the Department of
 War a correct return of all ordnance,  am-
 munition, military stores,  and  effects, in
 the respective garrisons,  arsenals, maga-
 zines, posts, and camps, with a statement
 of their order, quality, and condition;  and
 also what may be necessary to keep up an
 ample supply of each and every article in
 the ordnance department, and shall, in all
 things, faithfully and without delay execute
 the orders of the Secretary for the  Depart-
 ment of War touching the same.
   Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
 the......keepers of magazines and arsenals,
 shall half yearly, make correct  returns to
 the commissary general of ordnance of all
 military stores that they respectively have
 in charge; and that the assistant commis-
 sary general of ordnance, the deputy com-
missaries and assistant  deputies shall faith-
fully and without delay, execute  all orders 
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that shall  be issued by the  Secretary for
the Department of War, the commanding
general, in time of war, of any corps, camp,
or garrison, or of the commissary general
of ordnance, in their  respective depart-
ments, by virtue of this act.
   Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
the commissary general of ordnance  shall
make a correct report of the  artificers and
laborers from time to time employed by
him, and transmit the same to the adjutant
general.
   Sec. 10. Executed.

  May H, 1812.
AN ACT making further provision for the Army
            of the United States.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the President of the  United States be, and
he hereby is authorised and empowered to
appoint so many district  paymasters as, in
his judgment, the service may require; and
if such paymasters are taken from the line
of the army, they shall, respectively, receive 
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thirty dollars per  month, in addition  to
their pay in the line: Provided, The same
shall, in no case, exceed the pay and emo-
luments of a major; and if not taken from
the line, they shall receive the same pay
and emoluments as a major of infantry.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the President of the United States be, and
he hereby is authorised and empowered to
appoint a  paymaster to each regiment  on
the peace establishment, who shall receive
the same pay and emoluments as a captain
of the regiment to which he belongs: Pro*
videtl, That  all district and regimental pay,
masters shall be subject to the rules and
articles of wrar, and give such bonds to the
United  States as the Secretary for the De
partment of War may direct, for the faith-
ful performance  of their  duties.  And  it
shall be the  duty of the commanding offi-
cer, when requested by the paymaster, to
furnish a capable non-commissioned officer
or  soldier to aid  him in the discharge of
his duty, who, while so employed, shall  re-
ceive double pav.  Vide Act 18ih April
1814.
   Sec. 3.  Repealed.
   Sec. 4.  And be it further  enacted, That
each brigade major, provided by law, shall 
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be a'lowed twenty-four dollars per month
in addition to his pay in the line.
   S-c. 5. And be it further enacted, That
the general, commanding the army of the
United States, shall be allowed a  secreta-
ry, to be taken from  the line of the army,
who shall  receive twenty-four dollars  per
month, in addition to his pay in  the line,
and shall be allowed  forage for two horses.
  Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
in addition  to the non-commissioned  of-
ficers and privates allowed to the regiment
of light  artillery, each company shall be
entitled to twelve  drivers of artillery, who
shall be enlisted for five years, unless soon-
er discharged, and receive the sane pay,
rations, and clothing  as the  privates of the
army: Provided,  Such drivers of  artillery
shall, at all  times, be liable to do  duty in
the ranks when the company shall not be
mounted.
  Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That
so much of the " Act for establishing rules
and articles for the government of the  ar-
mies of the United  States," as authorises
the  infliction of corporeal punishment, by
stripes or lashes, be, and the same hereby
is repealed.

  \Tv !6,  12:2. 
lJ4
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, " An act to es-
  tablish a Quartermaster's Dcpaitincnt, and for
  other purposes."

   BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the  United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
neither the quartermaster general, the com-
missary general, nor any or  either of their
deputies or assistant deputies, shall be con-
cerned,  directly or indirectly, in the  pur-
chase or sale, for commercial purposes, of
any article intended for making  a part of,
or appertaining to, their respective depart-
ments, except for, and on account of, the
United States; nor shall  they, or either of
them, take or apply to his or their own use,
any gain or emolument for  negotiating or
transacting any business in their respective
departments, other than what is, or  may
be allowed by law.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the quartermaster general  be,  and he  is
hereby empowered to  appoint one princi-
pal barrack master, and as many deputy
barrack masters as may, from time to time,
be necessary,  not exceeding  one to  each
separate barrack  or  cantonment; which
said principal barrack  master  shall be en-
titled to receive the same pay, rations,  and 
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emoluments, as the principal forage mas*
ter; and each of his deputies, the same pay<
rations, and emoluments, as is  by law al-
lowed to a deputy forage master.
  Sec. 3. And belt further enacted, That
in addition to the allowance made to the
quartermaster general and commissary ge-
neral, respectively, in and by the act here-
by  amended,  it shall and may be lawful
for  the   Secretary for the Department of
War, for the time being, to allow to them,
respectively, such sums  as, in his opinion,
shall have been  actually and  necessarily
expended in their  several departments for
office rent, fuel, candles, and  ejttra clerk
hire.
  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the quartermaster general, the deputy quar-
termasters, and the assistant deputy quar-
termasters, shall,  before  they, or either of
them, enter upon the duties of their appoint-
ment,  respectively enter into  bond,  with
sufficient security, to  be approved of by the
Secretary of War, conditioned for the faith-
ful  expenditure of all public monies, and
accounting for all public property, which
may come to their hands respectively; and
the quartermaster general shall not be lia-
ble  for  any money  or property that may 
06
come into the hands of the subordinate of-
ficers of his department,
   Sec. 5.  And be it further enacted. That
the sixth section of the act, hereby amend-
ed, be, and the  same is hereby repealed.

  May 22, 1812.
AN ACT entitled an act for the more perfect orga-
    nization of the Army of the United States.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of  Representatives  of the  Untied States
of America imCongress assembled, That
the infantry  of  the  army of the  United
States shall consist of........* regiments; and
that a regiment shall consist of one colonel,
one lieutenant colonel, [two majors,] one
adjutant, one paymaster, one quartermas-
ter, one surgeon, two  surgeon's  mates,
one serjeant  major,  one  quarte. master's
serjeant, two  principal musicians, and ten
companies.
  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
each company shall consist of one captain,

  * Vide Act 5th July 1813, Sfctli .Jar uary 1811, 3C*.h
March 1814. 
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one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant,*
one  ensign,........f Serjeants, six corporals,
two musicians, and ninety privates.
  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
to the regiment of cavalry authorised by
the act passed January eleventh, one thou-
sand  eight hundred and twelve, entitled
" An act to raise  an additional  military
force," there  shall  be  added  one riding
master; and to the  regiment of light dra-
goons, authorised by the act passed  April
twelfth, one  thousand eight hundred and
eight, entitled " An act to raise for a limit-
ed time an additional military  force," one
surgeon's mate.
  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
each  troop of cavalry  or  light dragoons
shall consist of one  captain, one first lieu-
tenant, one second lieutenant,!  one cornet,
.......§ Serjeants,  six  corporals, two  musi-
cians, one master of the sword, one sad-
dler, one farrier, one blacksmith, and sixty-
four privates; and that the pay and emolu-
ments of a master of the sword shall be the
same as those of a riding master; and the

  * One thud lieutenant.
  f Five.
  j One thirl lieutenant.
  i Five.
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pay and emoluments of a blacksmith shall
be the same as those of a farrier.
  Sec. 5.  Vide Act 30th March 1811.

  June 26, 1812.
AN ACT making further provision for the Army of
    the United States, and for other purposes.

  BE it enacted by the  Senate and House.
of Representatives  of  the Uiited States
of America in Congress assembled,  That
the President of the  United States be, and
he is  hereby authorised, by aad  with  the
advice and consent  of the Senate, to  ap-
point  two brigadier generals, io addition to
those  already authorised by lav.-, who shal'
each be entitled to the same nuraber of aids
and  brigade majors, as are  allowed  to a
brigadier general under the act of Congress
passed the  eleventh of January, one  thou--
sand  eight  hundred and twelve.   And the
said brigadier generals,  aid-', and brigade
majors, shall be entitled to receive the same
pay and emoluments as  are by law allowed
to officers of the same grade.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That?
to any army of the United Slates, other 
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than that in which the........paymaster of the
army shall serve, it shall be lawful for the
President to  appoint........one deputy pay-
master general, who shall  be taken  from
the fine of the army, and who shall........in
addition to his pay and other emoluments,
be entitled to fifty dollars per month, which'
shall be in full compensation  for his  extra
services.  And that  there shall be to each
of the  foregoing deputies such number of
assistant deputies, (uot  exceeding three to
each department) as the public service may
require, who shall in like manner be taken
from the line, and who  shall  each be enti-
tled to thirty dollars per month, in addition
to his  pay and other emoluments, which
shall be in full compensation for  his  extra
services: And provided also, Thai the Pre-
sident of  the United States be, and  he is
hereby authorised to appoint any of the of-
ficers named in this  act, during the recess
of the Senate, to be  submitted to the Senate
at their next meeting for their advice and
consent.
   Sec. 3. Annulled.
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the President is hereby authorised to con
fer brevet  rank  on such  officers of the
army,  as shall distinguish themselves by 
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gallant actions  or meritorious  conduct, or
who shall have  served ten years in any one
grade: Provided, That nothing herein con-
tained, shall  be so  construed as to entitle
officers so brevetted, to any additional pay
or emoluments, except when commanding
separate  posts,   districts, or detachment.-,
when they shall be entitled to, and  receive
the same pay  and emoluments to which
officers  of the   same grades are now, or
hereafter may be allowed by law.
  Sec. 5.  Vide  Act  30th March 1814.

  July 6, 1812.
AN ACT increasing the pay of the non commission-
  ed officers, musicians, privates,  and others of the
  Army, and for other purposes.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the  United States
of America in Congress assembled..  That
from and  after the  thirty-first day of De-
cember, eighteen hundred and twelvs, the
monthly pay of the non-commissioned offi-
cers, musicians, privates,  drivers, bombar-
diers, matrosses, sappers, miners, artificers,
saddlers,  farriers, and  blacksmiths,  who 
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have enlisted, or shall hereafter enlist in the
service of the United States, shall, during
the continuance  of the war between the
United States of  America and their terri-
tories, and the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and  Ireland and the dependencies
thereof, be as follows, to wit: to  each ser-
jeant  major  and  quartermaster  serjeant,
twelve dollars; to each serjeant and princi-
pal musician, eleven dollars; to  each corpo-
ral, ten dollars; to each musician, nine dol
lars;  to  each private, driver, bombardier,
matross, sapper, and miner, eight dollars;
to each artificer, saddler, farrier, and black-
smith, not  attached  to  the quartermaster
general's  and ordnance department, thir-
teen dollars.
   Sec. 2.  And be it further enacted, That
during the continuance  of the war with
Great Britain, no non commissioned  offi-
cer, musician, private, driver, bombardier,
matross,* sapper, miner, artificer, saddler,
farrier, or blacksmith, enlisted in the ser-
vice of the United  States,  during his con-
tinuance  in  service, shall  be  arrested  or
subject to arrest,  or to be taken in execution
for any debt contracted before  or after en-
listment
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  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
every non-commissioned officer, musician,
and private, who shall, after the promulga-
tion of this act be recruited in the regular
army of the United States, may, at his op-
tion, to be made at the time of enlistment,
engage to serve during the present war
with Great Britain, instead of the term of
five years, and shall, in case he makes such
option, be entitled to the same bounty in
money and land, and to  all other allow-
ances, and be subject to the same rules and
regulations, as if he had  enlisted for the
term of five years.

  December 12, 1812.
AN ACT supplementary to the act, entitled «' An
  act for the more perfect organization of the Army
  of the United States."

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United  States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the President of the  United States be, and
he is hereby authorised, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate, to appoint
one additional  major........to the regiment 
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of light artillery, each regiment of infantry,
md the rifle regiment, in the army of the
United  States, who  shall receive the like
pay, rations, forage, and other emoluments,
as officers of the same grade and corps of
the present military establishment.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
there be appointed  in  manner  aforesaid,
one third lieutenant, to each troop or com-
pany, in the army of the United  States,
who, if of cavalry or light dragoons, shall
receive  the monthly  pay of tlurty  dollars,
and  of other  corps, twenty-three  dollars,
and  be allowed the  same forage,  rations,
anc other emoluments as second lieutenants
of the same corps to which they belong.
   Sec. 3.  And be it further enacted, That
there be allowed to each troop or company,
in the army of the United States, one ad-
ditional serjeant, who shall receive  the like
pay, clothing,  rations  and  other  emolu-
ments, as Serjeants of the present  military
establishment,
   See. 4.  Vide Act 27th January, 1814.......
and a bounty of one hundred and sixty acres
of land, as heretofore established by law\
   Sec.  5. And be it further enacted, That
the  commissioned  officers  who shall be
employed in the recruiting service, shall be 
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entitled to receive  for every effective  able
bodied man, who shall  be duly enlisted,
after  the  first  day of February next, by
them, for the term  of five years or during
the war,  and  mustered,  and between the
ages of eighteen and forty-five years, the
sum of four dollars: Provided nevertheless,
That this regulation, so far  as respects the
age of the recruit,  shall not extend to mu-
sicians, or to those soldiers who may re-
enlist into the service:  And provided  also,
That no  person under the  age of twenty-
one years shall  be  enlisted  by any officer,
or held in the service of the United States,
without the consent, in writing,  of his pa-
rent, guardian, or master, first had and ob-
tained, if any he  have; and  if any oflicer
shall enlist any person contrary to  the true
intent and meaning of this act, for  every
such  offence, he shall forfeit and pay the
amount of the bounty and  clothing which
the person so recruited may have received
from the public, to be deducted  out of the
pay and  emoluments of such officer.
   Sec. 6. And be  it further enacted, That
it shall  be  lawful for any person, during
the time he may  be performing a tour of
mffitia 'duty, to  enlist in  the regular  army
of the United   States; and the recruiting' 
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officers are hereby authorised to enlist any
such person in the same  manner, and un-
der the same regulations,  as if he were not
performing  such  militia duty; and every
person who shall enlist while performing a
tour of militia duty as aforesaid, shall  be
thereby exonerated  from serving  the re-
mainder of said tour; and the state to which
he may belong shall not be required to fur-
nish any other person to serve in his stead.

  January 20,1813.
AN ACT in addition to the act, entitled " An act to
  raise an additional military force, and for other
  purposes."

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
in addition to the present military establish-
ment of the United States, there be raised
such number of regiments of infantry,  not
exceeding........* as in the opinion of the
President may be necessary for the public
service.......

  * Nineteen. (Vide Act 25th February, 1813, and
28th January, 18H.) 
10G
  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
each of the said regiments shall consist of
one colonel,  one lieutenant  colonel,  two
majors, one adjutant, one paymaster,  one
quartermaster, one surgeon, two surgeons
mates, one  serjeant major, one quartermas-
ter  serjeant, two  principal musicians,  and
ten  companies.
  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,  1 hat
each company shalfconsist of one captain,
one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant.
one third lieutenant, one ensign, fiw  Ser-
jeants, six  corporals, two musicians,  and
ninety privates.
  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,  lhat
it shall be  lawfid for the President of the
United States in the recess of the  Senate
to  appoint such  of  the officers authorised
by  this act, as may not be appointed during
the present session; which appointments
shall be submitted to the Senate  at  their
next session for their advice and consent.
    Sec. 5.  And be it further enacted,  That
 all the officers,  non-commissioned officers,
 musicians, and privates  authorised by this
 act. shall  receive the like pay, forage, ra-
 tions, clothing, and other emoluments.........
 as  the officers of the same grade and corps,
 uon commissioned officers, musicians, and 
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privates, of the  present military  establish
ment.
   Sec. 6. lb. sec. 10, of Act of Uth Jan,
1812.
   Sec. 7. Repealed.
   Sec. 8. Repealed.
   Sec. 9. lb. sec. 13 of Act of Uth Jan.
1812.
   Sec. 10. lb. sec. 14 of Act of Uth Jan.
1812.
   Sec. 11.  lb. sec. 15, del. after children
under 16 years of age, of Act of 1 lth Jan.
1812.
   Sec. 12. lb. sec. 16, do.
   Sec. 13. lb. sec. 18, do.
   Sec. 14. lb. sec. 20, do.
   Sec. 15. lb. sec. 22, do.
   Sec. 16. lb. sec. 24, do.
   Sec. 17. 16. sec. 25, do.
   Sec. 18. ^4rccZ be it further enacted, That
the act, entitled  " An act  authorising the
President of the  United States to  accept
and  organize certain  volunteer  military
corps," and the act, entitled " An act  sup-
plementary to the act, entitled c An act au-
thorising the President of the  United Spates
to accept and organize certain  volunteer
military corps," be, and the same are here-
by repealed, from and after the first  day  of 
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February next: Provided, That nothing
herein contained, shall be  so construed as
to deprive the officers and men who may
have entered the service as volunteers, un-
der the said acts, of any rights,  immunities,
or privileges therein secured, or the United
States of the  services of such volunteers,
agreeably to the provisions of the said acts.
  January 29th, 1813.
AN ACT making provision for an additional num-
            ber of general officeis.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled, That
the President be, and he is hereby autho-
rised by and with the advice  and consent
of the Senate, to appoint  six major generals
in addition to those already authorised by
law; each of whom shall be allowed two
aids de camp, to be taken from the officers
of the line; and six brigadier generals, wlio
shall be allowed a brigade major and ore
aid de  camp, each to be taken also from
the officers of the line.*

  * Eight major generals and  sixteen brigadier gene-
rals allowed by the seyeral act?. 
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  Sec. 2.  And be it further enacted, That
the officers authorised by this act, shall re-
ceive  the  same  pay, forage,  rations, and
other  emoluments, as  the officers  of the
same  grade of the  present military esta.
blishment.
  February 2ith, 1813.
AN ACT for the better organization of the general
     staff of the Army of the United States.

  BE it enactedby the Senate and House
of Representatives  of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the adjutant general's, inspector general's,
and quartermaster  general's departments,
shall consist of the following officers, that is
to say: an  adjutant and  inspector general,
with the rank,  pay, and emoluments of a
brigadier general, and not exceeding eight
adjutants general, sixteen assistant adjutants
general*  eight  topographical  engineers,
eight  assistant  topographical  engineers,
eight  inspectors  general, sixteen assistant
inspectors  general,  eight  quartermasters
general, eight deputy quartermasters  gene-
ral, and thirty two assistant deputy quarter*
masters general. 
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   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the President of the  United States be, and
is hereby authorised, if he shall deem it ex-
pedient,  to  assign one of the brigadiers
general to the principal army of the  U nited
States, who shall in such case act as adju-
tant and  inspector general, and  as  chief of
the stall of such army: and the quartermas-
ter general attached to  the principal army,
shall, as  heretofore,  have  the brevet rank
and the pay and emoluments of a brigadier
general
   Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
all  the other adjutants general shall have
tiie brevet rank and the pay and  emolu-
ments of a colonel of cavalry; all the other
inspectors general and quartermasters  ge-
neral, shall have the brevet rank and  the
pay and emoluments of a colonel of infan-
try; the assistant adjutants general, assistant
inspectors  general, deputy quartermasters
general, and topographical engineers, shall
have the  brevet rank and the pay and emo-
luments of a major of cavalry;  and the as-
sistant topographical engineers,  and assist-
ant deputy  quartermasters  general, shall
have  the brevet rank  and the pay and
emoluments of a captain of infantry. 
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  Sec. 1. And be it further enacted, That
the assistant adjutants general, the assistant
inspectors general, and the assistant topo-
graphical engineers, shall  be taken from
the line.  The adjutants general,.inspectors
general,  quartermasters general,   deputy
quartermasters general, topographical en-
gineers, and  assistant deputy  quartermas-
ters general, may be  taken from the line,
or not, as the President may  deem  expe-
dient.  And officers  taken  from  the line
and  transferred  to the  staff, shall receive
only  the pay  and emoluments attached  to
the rank in  the staff; but their transfer shall
be without prejudice to their rank and pro-
motion in the line, according to their said
rank and seniority; which promotion shall
take  place according to usage in the same
manner as if they had not been thus trans-
ferred.
  Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the
War Department, and he is hereby autho-
rised to prepare general regulations, better
defining and prescribing the respective  du-
ties  and powers of the several officers in
the  adjutant  general, inspector  general,
quartermaster general, and  commissary  of
ordnance departments, of the topographical 
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engineer.-., of  t'ne  aids  of generab,  and
generally  of the general and regimental
staff: which regulations, when approved by
the President of the United States, shall be
respected  and obeyed  until  altered or re-
voked  by the  same authority.  And  the
said general regulations thus prepared and
approved, shall be laid  before Congress at
their next session.
   See. 6. And be it further enacted, That
the number  of assistant deputy commissa-
ries of ordnance shall not exceed  sixteen,
and that they shall  respectively  he entitled
to the brevet rank and to the pay and emo-
luments of a first lieutenant of infantry.
   See. 7. And be it further enacted, That
for the better superintendence and  ma-
nagement of the hospital and  medical esta-
blishment of the army of the United States,
there  shall  be a  physician  and  surgeon
general, with an annual salary of two thou-
sand five hundred  dollars, and an apothe-
cary general, w ith an annual salary of eigh-
teen hundred dollars, w hose respective  du-
ties and powers shall be prescribed  by  the
President of the United States.
   Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
the forage, waggon, and barrack masters,
shall be appointed  as Iicrctoforc: but each 
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quartermaster general, attached to any  ses
parate army, command, or district, sliall be
authorised, with the approbation, and under
the direction of the  Secretary of the War
Department, to appoint as many such  of-
ficers, and to employ  as many  artificers,
mechanics, and laborers, as the public, ser-
vice may require.
  Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
the assistant deputy quartermasters general
may be appointed, and officers  taken from
the line and transferred to the staff, may
be thus transferred by the President of the
United States alone.   But all other new
appointments, authorised by this  act, shall
be made by the President of the United
States, with the advice  and consent of  the
Senate:  Provided, That during the  recess
of the  Senate  such  appointments may  be
made by the  President alone, in  which
case, the  same shall  be  laid before the Se-
nate at their next session for their advice
and consent.
   Sec. 10. And  be it further  enacted,
That every act, and every part of any  act
of Cdngress now in force, within the pur-
view and meaning of this act, be and  the
same are hereby repealed.
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  Sec.  11.  And be  it further  enacted,
That all letters  and packets to and from
the  adjutant and inspector general, adju-
tants  general, inspectors general, quarter-
masters  general, commissary general  of
ordnance, physician and surgeon general,
and apothecary general,  which relate  to
their official duties, shall be free from post-
age.
  Sec.  12.  And be  it further  enacted,
That the President of the United  States
be,  and he is hereby authorised to appoint
any of the officers  authorised by an act,
entitled " An  act .making provision  for
an additional number  of general officers,"
passed the twenty-fifth  day of February,
one thousand eight  hundred and thirteen,
during the recess of the Senate, to be sub-
mitted to the Senate at their next session
for their advice  and consent; and that no
officer appointed or  who may be appointed
by virtue  of the aforesaid aet, shall  be en-
titled to receive  any pay or emolument
until he shall be called into actual service,
nor for any longer  time than he shall be
continued therein.
March 3d, 1813. 
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AN ACT the better to provide for the supplies of the
  Army of the United States, and for the account-
  ability of persons entrusted with the same.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the  United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the third section of the act, entitled " An
act to provide for the erecting and repair-
ing of arsenals and  magazines,  and  for
other purposes," passed on the second day
of April, one thousand seven hundred  and
ninety-four, be and  the same is hereby re-
pealed, from and after the  thirty-first  day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and
thirteen.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted^ That
there shall be  a superintendent general of
military supplies, who shall reside at the
seat  of government, and receive an annual
salary of three thousand dollars; and whose
duty it shall be, under the direction of the
Secretary for the War Department, to keep
proper accounts of all the  military stores
and supplies of every description, purchased
or distributed for the use of the  army of
the United  States, and of the  volunteers
and  militia  in their  sendee; to  prescribe
the forms of all the  returns and  accounts
of such stores and  supplies purchased^ on 
lid
 hand, distributed, used, or sold, to be rcn
 dered by the commissary of ordnance and
 officers in his department, by the commis-
 sary general of purchases and his deputies,
 by the several officers in the quartermaster
 general's department, by the regimental
 quartermasters, by the  hospital  surgeons
 and other officers belonging to the hospital
 and medical department,  and by all other
 officers, agents, or persons who shall have
 received, distributed,  or been entrusted
 with such stores and supplies as aforesaid;
 to call to account all such persons; to audit
 and settle all such accounts, and in case of
 delinquency, to transmit  the account, and
 to state  the value of articles unaccounted
 for by such delinquency due to the account-
 ing officers of  the Treasury, for final  set-
 tlement and recovery of such value;  to
 transmit all  such orders, and generally to
 perform  all such other  duties respecting
 the general superintendence  of the  pur-
 chase, transportation,  safe  keeping,  and
 accountability of military supplies and stores
 as aforesaid, as may be prescribed by the
 Secretary for the War Department.
   Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the commissary general of purchases and
his deputies, the several officers in  the 
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quartermaster general's  department,  the
regimental quartermasters, the commissary
of ordnance, his assistant and deputies, the
principal hospital surgeons and officers be-
longing to the hospital and medical depart-
ments, and  all other officers,  agents,  or
persons who  shall  have received, or  may
be entrusted with any stores or supplies of
any description whatever for the use of the
army of  the United States, and of the vo-
lunteers or militia in their service,  shall
render quarterly accounts of the disposition
and state of all such stores and supplies to
the superintendent  aforesaid, and shall also
make  such  other  returns  respecting the
same, and at  such  other times as the Se-
cretary for the Wrar Department may pre-
scribe: Provided however, That  the ac-
counts and returns  thus  rendered shall re-
late to the articles of supply only,  which
may have been received and  disposed  of,
as may remain on  hand, and shall not em-
brace the specie accounts for monies dis-
bursed by such officers, agents, or other
persons;  which specie  accounts  shall  be
rendered  as  heretofore, to the accountant
for the War Department.
  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,  That
all the officers, agents^ or  other  persons 
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who may receive monies in advance from
the War Department, shall render quar-
terly accounts to the accountant of the said
Department, of their specie receipts and
disbursements,  and shall moreover make
such other  monthly summary statements
thereof to the Secretary for the said Depart-
ment, as he may prescribe.  And the quar-
terly accounts  of supplies, or of  monies
rendered as aforesaid, shall be respectively
settled  by the  superintendent  general  of
military supplies, and by the accountant of
the War  Department, according to their
respective authorities, within three months
after the time  when  such  accounts shall
have respectively been rendered to them.
   Sec. 5. And  be it further enacted, That
the Secretary  for the  War  Department
shall be, and he is  hereby authorised and
directed to define and prescribe the  species
as well as the amount of supplies to be re-
spectively purchased by the  commissary
general's  and quartermaster general's  de-
partments, and  the respective duties and
powers of the said departments  respecting
such purchases;  and  also  to  adopt and
prescribe general regulations for the trans-
portation of  the articles of supply from  the
places  of purchase to the  several armies, 
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garrisons, posts, and recruiting places, for
the safe keeping of such articles, and for
the distribution  of an adequate and  timely
supply of the same to the regimental quar-
termasters, and to such other officers  as
may by virtue  of such  regulations  be en-
trusted with the same  And the Secretary
aforesaid is also authorised to fix and make
reasonable  allowances  for  the  store  rent,
storage,  and salary of store  keepers, neces-
sary for the  safe keeping  of all military
stores and supplies.
   Sec. 6. And  be it further enacted, That
the superintendent general of military sup-
plies shall be appointed by the  President,
with the advice and consent of the  Senate;
but the  President  is hereby authorised to
make the appointment during the recess of
the Senate, which appointment shall be
submitted to the Senate at their next meet-
ing for their advice and consent.
   Sec. 7 And be it further enacted, That
the superintendent general of military sup-
plies shall be authorised to  employ a  suffi-
cient  number of clerks: Provided, That
their annual compensation shall not  exceed
in the whole seven thousand  dollars........
   Sec. 8. And  be it further enacted, That
the President of the United States be, and 
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he is hereby empowered, as he may dee:<i
it expedient, either to appoint  for the tin if
being a special commissary or commissa-
ries for the  purpose of supplying by pur-
chase or contract, and of issuing, or to  au-
thorise any officer or officers in the quarter-
master general's department, to supply and
issue as aforesaid, the  whole or any part of
the subsistence  of the army, in all cases
where, either from the want of contractors,
or from  any deficiency  on their part, or
from any otner contingency, such measure
may be proper and necessary in order to
insure the subsistence of the army, or of
any part thereof; and such special commis-
saries shall each,  whilst employed,  be enti-
tled to the pay and emoluments of a depu-
ty quartermaster general.
   Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
the President of the United States, be, and
he is hereby authorised to appoint  not  ex
ceeding  six assistant commissaries, to be
attached to such army, or to reside at such
places respectively, as  the Secretary for
the War Department may direct, for the
purpose of receiving from the commissary
general of purchases, or from his deputies,
and of distributing to  the regimental quar-
termasters, and to such officers as may by 
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the Secretary aforesaid be designated, the
clothing and other supplies  purchased by
the commissary general  aforesaid, or his
deputies, and destined for the use of the
troops belonging to the army, or in the vi-
cinity of the place to  which  such assistant
commissaries may  respectively be attach-
ed. And said assistant commissaries shall,
whilst employed, be entitled  to the pay and
emoluments of a deputy quartermaster ge-
neral.
  March 3, 1813.
AN ACT to amend the act in addition to the act
  entitled " An act  to raise an additional military
  force, and for other purposes."

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the  United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
five of the  regiments  which were autho-
rised to be raised by an act in addition  to
the act, entitled " An act to raise an  addi-
tional military force, and  for other purpo-
ses," passed the  twenty ninth day of Ja-
nuary, one thousand eight  hundred  and
thirteen, may, at the discretion of the Pre-
sident of the United States, be enlisted for
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and during the war, unless sooner dischar-
ged, and be limited as  to service to  the
defence of the  sea  board of  the  United
States, or of such parts thereof as the Pre-
sident may elect and determine.
  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
each man recruited  under the  authority of
this  act,  be allowed the same bounty in
money and land as is allowed by law to
men enlisted for five years or for the war,
and that the officers, non-commissioned of-
ficers, musicians, and privates, shall receive
the same pay,  clothing, subsistence, and
forage, be entitled to the  same benefits, be
subject to the same  rules and regulations,
and be placed in every respect on the same
footing  as the other regular troop9 of the
United  States.

  July 5, 1813.
  AN ACT to regulate the allowance of forage to of-
     ficers in the army of the United States.

  BE it enacted by the Senate, and House
of Representatives of the United  Slates
of America, in Congress assembled, That
all  officers  in  the military service of the 
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United States, who are by law  entitled to
forage, shall receive  in lieu thereof, when
not drawn in kind,  an equivalent in  mo-
ney, at the rate of eight dollars  per month
for each horse to which they may be  en-
titled: Provided,  That no allowance shall
be  made to any officer for more horses
than he shall actually employ in the public
service.

  July 22, 1813.
AN act making further  provision for filling the
  ranks of the regular army,  encouraging enlist-
  ments, and authorising the re enlistments, for lon-
  ger periods, of men whose terms of service are
  about to expire.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and, House
of Representatives  of the United Siutcs
of America in  Congress assembled, That
in order to  complete the present  military
establishment to the full number authorised
by law, with the greatest possible despatch,
there  shall be paid to each effective  able
bodied man who shall, after the first day
of February next, be enlisted into the army
of the United States, to serve for fche term 
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of five years or during the war, at his elec-
tion, in lieu of the bounty in money and of
the three months' pay at the expiration of
the service, now allowed by law, the sum
of one hundred and  twenty-four dollars;
fifty  dollars of which to be pail at the time
the recruit is enlisted, fifty dollars when he
shall  be  mustered  and have joined some
military corps for service; and twenty-four
dollars when he shall be discharged from
service;* and the wife and children, and if
he leave no wife or children, the parents of
such non-commissioned ortccr and soldier,
enlisted as herein before directed, who may
be killed in action, or die in the  service of
the  United  States, shall  be allowed and
paid  the said sum  of twenty four dollars.
And  after the  said first  day of February
next, so much of the fourth section of the
act, entitled "  An act for the more  perfect
organization  of the army  of the United
States,"  passed the twentieth day of Ja-
nuary, one  thousand eight hundred and
thirteen,  as allows  to  each able  bodied
man, enlisted into the service of the United
States, in the manner therein  st;.*ed.  an
advance of twenty-four dollars on ace umt

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of his pay, shall be, and the same is here*
by repealed.
  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, Thai
the  sum of eight  dollars  shall be paid  to
any non-commissioned officer, soldier, or
citizen, who shall, after the first day of Fe-
bruary next, furnish and procure to be en-
listed  according  to  law, an  able bodied
man, to serve for the term of five years or
during the war.
  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
every non commissioned officer,  musician,
and private, who  has been recruited in the
regular army of the  United States, under
the  authority of the act  of the  eighth  of
April,  one thousand eight hundred and
twelve, entitled "  An act in addition to the
act, entitled < An  act to raise an additional
military force," passed January  eleventh
one thousand  eight  hundred  and twelve,
may be  re-enlisted  for the term of five
years, or during the war; and that every
non commissioned officer, musician, and
private, recruited  under authority of the act
of the twenth ninth of January, one thou-
sand eight hundred and  thirteen, entitled
« An  act  in addition to the  act, entitled
( An  act to raise an  additional military?
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force,  and  for  other  purposes,"  may be
re-enlisted for five years or during the war.
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the non-commissioned officers, musicians,
and privates, re-enlisted under the authority
of the preceding section,  shall be entitled
to the bounty allowed by this act to recruits
for five years or during the war.

  January 27,  1814.
AN ACT authorising the President of the United
  States 'o cause certain regiments therein mentioned
  to be enlisted for five years, o~ during the war.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of  Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the President of the United States be,  and
he hereby is authorised and empowered to
cause to be  enl sted for the term of five
years, or during the war, the fourteen regi-
ments of infantry which  are  now by  law
authorised  to  be enlisted for the  term of
one year, or  such number of them, or of
the troops  composing the same, as  in his
ophiion will best promote the public  ser
vice. 
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  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
each man enlisted under the authority of
this act, shall be allowed the same bounty
in money and land as  is now by law al-
lowed  to  men enlisted for five years, or
during the war, and that the officers, non-
commissioned officers, musicians, and pri-
vates, shall receive the same pay, clothing,
subsistence, and forage, be entitled  to the
same benefits, be subject to the same rules
and  regulations, and be placed in  every
respect on the same footing as the other re-
gular troops of the United States.

  January 28, 1814.
  AN ACT to raise three regiments of Riflemen.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives  of the  United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
mere be immediately raised such number
of regiments of riflemen,  not exceeding
three, as in the opinion of the President
will best promote the military service, to
serve for five years, or during the war, un-
less sooner discharged. 
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   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
each regiment shall consist of one colonel,
one lieutenant colonel, two majors, one ad-
jutant, one paymaster, one quartermaster,
one surgeon, one surgeon's mate, one ser-
jeant  major,  one  quartermaster's serjeant,
two  principal musicians, and ten compa-
nies.
   See. 3. And be it further enacted, That
each company shall consist of one captain,
one first lieutenant, one second  lieutenant,
one third lieutenant,  and one ensign, five
Serjeants,  four corporals, two  musicians,
and ninety privates.
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
each man recruited under the authority of
this act be allowed the same bounty in land
and money as is  allowed by law to men
enlisted for five years or during the war,
and that the officers, non-commissioned of-
ficers, musicians and privates, shall receive
the same  pay, clothing, subsistence and
forage, be entitled to  the same  provisions
for wounds or disabilities, the same bene-
fits and allowances, and be placed in every
respect on the same  footing Jls the other
regula • troops of the  United States.
   Sec 5. And be it further enacted. That
gach company of the  regiment of riflemen 
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authorised to be raised by the act of April
twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and
eight, shall consist of ninety privates.

  February 10, 18U.
AN ACT for the better organizing, paying,  and
   supplying the Army of the United States.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled,  That.
the first, second, and third regiments of
artillery be formed into  one  corps, and
organized into twelve battalions, as follows,
to wit:  six  lieutenant colonels, six majors,
twelve adjutants,  twelve quartermasters,
and fortv-eight companies.
  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
each company shall consist of  one captain,
one first lieutenant, two  second lieutenants,
one  third  lieutenant, five Serjeants,  one
quartermaster's  serjeant,  eight corporals,
four  musicians, and one  hundred pri\ ates.
  See. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the President be authorised to assign  one
of the two  second lieutenants hereby pro-
vided for each company, as a  conductor of 
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artillery for said company, whose duty ii
nhall be to receipt and account for all am-
munition,  implements, and  cannon,  fur-
nished by the Ordnance  Department  for
said company, and to do and perform such
other services as the War Department may
direct; and  that for  the  performance of
these  services they be  allowed each  ten
dollars extra pay per month.
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
in lieu of the two  regiments of light dra-
goons now  in service, there  shall be  or-
ganized one regiment,  to consist of one
colonel, one lieutenant colonel, two majors,
one adjutant, one  quartermaster,  one sur
geon, two  surgeon's  mates,  one serjeant
major,  one quartermaster  serjeant,  one
principal musician, one principal  farrier,
and eight troops.
   Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
each troop shall consist of one captain, one
fir-t lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one
third lieutenant, one cornet, five Serjeants,
eight  corporals, one  riding  master,  one
master of the sword,  two trumpeters or
buglers, one farrier,  one  blacksmith, one
6add!er, and ninety-six privates.
   Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
the officers  of the  corps of  artillery,  and 
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die  regiment of light  artillery, shall  seve
rally receive the same pay as is  now pro-
vided by law for the light dragoons m the
service of the United States; and the sub-
alterns of all other corps shall be allowed
one ration in addition to the pay authorised
by existing laws.
  Sec 7. And be  it further enacted, That
there  shall he  allowed annually to  each
non-commissioned officer,  musician  and
private in the corps of sea fcncibles, one
blanket, one knapsack and one canteen.
  Sec. 8. And be  it further enacted, That
the  President of the United States be, and
he  hereby  is authorised to  prescribe the
quantity  and kind of clothing to be issued
annually to the troops of the United States.
  Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
from and after the first day of June next,
the  officers of the  army shall be entitled to
waiters agreeable to grade, as follows: a
major general, four  waiters; a brigadier
general,  three; a colonel, two; the physi-
cian and surgeon general, two;  a lieuten-
ant colonel,  major, and hospital surgeon,
each, one;  the officers of each  company,
three; every  commissioned  officer  who
holds a staff appointment which gives the
rank of captain, or any higher grade, one; 
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and to every company officer who com-
mands a separate post or detachment, one;
any law  or regulation heretofore existing
to the contrary notwithstanding.
  Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That
no officer shall be permitted to employ as
a servant any soldier from the line of the
army, and that the servants of officers, not
exceeding the number allowed by the pre-
ceding section, shall be mustered with some
corps of the army, and that on the  muster
rolls formed in consequence  thereof pay
meuts shall be made in money to the offi-
cers employing them in lieu of wages, sub-
sistence and clothing, by the  paymasters
of the several corps or districts where such
servants are mustered, at the rate allowed
to privates of infantry, which shall be pub-
lished  to the army annually,  by the Se-
cretary for the Department of War.
  Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That
the President of the United States  be au-
thorised to appoint so many assistant apo-
thecaries  as the service may, in his judg-
ment, require; each of whom shall  receive
the same pay  and emoluments as  a regi-
mental surgeon'^ mate.
  Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That
.frcrn  and  after  the passing  of this act, 
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promotions may be made through the whole
army in its several lines of light artillery,
light dragoons, artillery, infantry and rifle-
men,  respectively,  and that the relative
rank of officers of the same grade, belong-
ing to regiments or corps already  autho-
rised, or which may be engaged to serve
for five years or during the war, be equali-
zed and settled by the War  Department,
agreeably to established rules; and that so
much of the act, entitled " An act  for the
more perfect organization of the army of
the United States," passed  the twenty sixth
of June, one thousand  eight hundred and
twelve, as comes  within the purview and
meaning of this  act be, and the same is
hereby repealed.
   Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That
for the purpose  of avoiding unnecessary
expenses in the military establishment, the
President of the  United States be,  and he
is hereby authorised, in case of failure in
filling the rank and file of any regiment or
regiments, to consolidate such deficient re-
giment  or  regiments, and  discharge all
supernumerary  officers:  Provided,  That
officers so discharged shall be  allowed in
addition to the mileage already authorised
by law, three months' pay to each.
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   Sec. 14. Andbeit further enacted. That
every  non-commissioned officer and pri-
vate of the army, or officer,  non-coin mis-
sioned officer and private of any militia  or
volunteer corps in the service of the United
States who has been or who  may be cap-
tured by the enemy, shall be entitled to re-
ceive during his captivity, notwithstanding
the expiration  of his term of service, the
same pay, subsistence  and allowance  to
which he may be entitled whilst in the ac-
tual service of the United States: Provided,
That nothing  herein  contained  shall be
construed to  entitle any prisoner of war
of the militia to the pay and compensation
herein provided after the date of his parole,
other than the travelling expenses allowed
by law.
  Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That
the five regiments which, by  the  first sec-
tion of an act, entitled "  An act to  amend
the act in addition to the act,  entitled ' An
act to raise  an additional military force,
and  for other purposes," were authorised
to be enlisted, at the discretion of the Pre-
sident of the  United States for and during
the war, may be enlisted at the  option  of
the recruit, for five years or for and during
the  war. unless sooner discharged, the 
1 --*1 "
loo
provisions of the said act to the contrary
notwithstanding.
  Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That
the commissary general of ordnance may
employ in his department, besides black
smiths and wheehvrights, other mechanics,
such as  the  public  service  may  require,
who shall, together  with  the  said  black-
smiths and wheelwrights, be mustered un-
der the general denomination of artificers;
and  such artificers, being  hereafter,  or
having been heretofore enlisted to serve
for the term  of five years or during the
war, shall be entitled to the same annual
allowance of clothing as is or may be pro-
vided for the soldiers of the army.
  Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That
the laborers who may be hereafter enlisted
to serve in  the ordnance department,  for
the term of  five years or during the war,
shall be entitled to a bounty of twenty-five
dollars in  money, and the same annual al-
lowance of clothing  as is  or may be pro-
vided for the soldiers of the army.
   Sec. 1^. Andbe it further enacted, That
the physician and surgeon general of the
army be  entitled to two rations per day
and forage for two horses; and that in  ad-
dition to their pay, as at present.established 
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by lawr, the regimental surgeons and regi-
mental surgeons' mates, be  entitled to fif-
teen dollars per month each.
  Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That
the  aids-decamp of  major generals shall
be taken from the captains  and subalterns
of the line; and the aids de camp of briga-
dier generals from the  subalterns of the
line; and that it shall  not be lawful to take
more than one  aid-de-camp from a regi-
ment.
  Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That
in no case shall the district  paymasters or
quartermasters of any grade be taken from
the  line of the army.
  Sec. 21. And be. it further enacted, That
the  officers of the volunteer corps authorised
by the act of the twenty fourth day of  Fe
bruary, one  thousand eight hundred  and
fourteen, be  entitled to  promotion in  the
line of the army; and  that the President of
the   United  States, with the  advice  and
consent of the  Senate, be authorised to
make all necessary  appointments and to
fill all vacancies which may happen in the
same.

  March 30, 1814 
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AN ACT fixing the salary of the paymaster of the
  army of the United States, and allowing a sum for
  the employment of additional clerks in his office,
  for the year 1814,  and providing for the appoint-
  ment of assistant district paymasters.

   Sec. 1. Executed.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the President of the United States be, and
be is hereby authorised, by and with  the
advice and consent of the  Senate, to  ap-
point  so many  assistant  district paymas-
ters, not exceeding thirty, as the public
service may, in his opinion, require:  Pro-
vided, That the  President  of the  United
States shall have  power to  appoint  any
officer authorised by this act, during  the
recess of the  Senate, to  be  submitted to
them  for their advice and consent, at their
next session.
   Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the paymaster of the
armv, under the direction of the War De-
partment,  to  make  all disbursements of
money  within that department to the  dis-
trict paymasters, and  to adjust, state, and
exhibit their several accounts, according to
such  forms, and within  such periods  as
shall be prescribed for that purpose by the
Treasury Department.
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  Sec. 4. And be it further enacted.  Ti:at
to secure the regular and punctual payment
of the troops,  the district paymasters shall
examine and transmit to the paymaster of
the army the accounts and vouchers for all
disbursements  which have been made by
them to the troops of the army or district
where they shall be stationed, as soon as
the  first  payment shall have  been made,
and accompany the same with an estimate
for the next payment;  which accounts and
estimates  shall be  regularly  transmitted,
that settlements may be made  and compe-
tent funds remitted: Provided also,  That
the  said district and assistant paymasters
shall make payments to the militia in the
service of the United States when requir-
ed by the Secretary of War or the pay-
master of the army.
  Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,  That
the  assistant district paymasters shall  re-
ceive  the pay and emoluments of a captain
of infantry, and forage for one horse.
  Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
the  district and  assistant district pay mas-
ters shall severally give bonds, with  good
and sufficient security to the United States,
for the faithful performance of their duties, 
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in such sums as shall be required by the
paymaster of the army, under the direction
of the War Department, and shall be subject
to the rules and articles of war.
   Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That
this act shall continue in force until the ter-
mination of the war in  which  the United
States  are now engaged  with  the  united
kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and
the "dependencies thereof, and for one year
thereafter, and no longer.

  April 18, 18H.
AN  ACT to authorise the raising a corps of Sea,
                Fencibles.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the  United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the President of the United States be, and
he  is hereby authorised to raise for such
term as he may think proper, not exceed*
mtr one year /as many companies of sea
fencibles"as  he may  deem necessary, not
exceeding ten, who may be employed as
well on land as on water, for tiie defence 
140
of the ports and harbors of the  United
States.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
each of the said companies of sea fencibles
shall consist of one captain, one first,  one
second, and one third lieutenant, one boat-
swain, six  gunners, six quarter gunners,
and ninety men.
   Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the commissioned officers shall receive the
same pay  and  rations as oflicers  of the
same grade in  the army of the  United
States; that the boatswains, gunners, quar-
ter gunners, and men, shall receive  the
same pay  and rations as warrant  officers
of the same grade and able seamen  receive
in the service of the United States.   (Vide
sec. 7. Act 30th March, 1SU.J
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the officers, warrant officers, boatswains,
and men, raised pursuant to this act, shall
be entitled  to the like  compensation  in
case  of disability incurred by wounds or
othenvise  in the  service  of" the   United
States, as  officers,  warrant officers, and
seamen, in the present naval establishment,
and shall be subject to the rules and arti-
cles which have been or may hereafter be
established by law for the government of
the army of the United States. 
141
  Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
this act shall be and continue in force  dur-
ing the present war between the United
States of America and their territories, and
the united  kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland and the dependencies thereof.
  Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
in the recess of the  Senate, the President
of the  United  States is hereby authorised
to appoint all the officers proper to  be ap-
pointed under this act, which appointments
shall  be submitted to the Senate at  their
next session for their advice and consent.
   Sec. 7. Executed.
    July 26, 1813.
AN ACT authorising the President of the United
  States to rai-e certain companies of Rangers for
  the protection of the frontier of the United States.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America  in Congi^ess assembled, That
the President of  the United States, when-
ever he shall have satisfactory evidence of
the  actual  or threatened invasion  of any
state or territory  of  the  United  States, by
any Indian tribe or tribes, be,  and he is 
142
hereby authorised to raise,  either 1  v the
acceptance of volunteers or  enlistment for
one  year  unless  sooner  discharged,  as
many companies as he may deem nece^r
ry, not exceeding six,* who sha'l serve en
foot  or be mounted, as the  service in his
opinion may require, shall act on the  fron-
tier  as  rangers, be armed, equipped, and
organized in such manner, and be under
such regulations and  restrictions, as  the
nature of the service in his opinion  may
make necessary.
   Sec. 2. An J he it further enacted, That
each of the said companies of rangers shall
consist of one captain, one first, one second
lieutenant,........t
   See. 3. And be it further enacted. That
when  the  said rangers arm   antl  equip
themselves and provide their own horses,
they shall be allowed each  one dollar per
day, and without a horse seventy-five cents
per day, as full compensation for their ser-
vices, rations, or forage, as  the case  may
be.  The commissioned officers shall re-

  * By  Act 1st July, 1813,  one additional company;
23th February,  1313, ten additional companies.
  f One tliird lieutenant, one ensign,  rive Serjeants
six co;poials, and  ninety privates.   Vide Act 'id Au-
gust,  IS 13. 
143
eeivc the same pay and rations as officers
of the same grade in the army  of the
United States.
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the oificers, non-commissioned officers, and
privates,  raised pursuant to this act,  shall
he entitled to the like compensation  in case
of disability, by  wounds  and otherwise,
incurred  in  the service, as officers,  non-
commissioned officers, and  privates in the
present military establishment, and  with
them shall be subject to the rules and  arti-
cles of war, which have been established
or may hereafter by  law  be  established;
and the provisions of the act, entitled *• An
act fixing the military peace establishment
of the United States," so far as they  may
be applicable, shall be extended to all  per-
sons, matters, and things within the intent
and meaning of this act, in the same man-
ner as if  they were inserted at large in the
same.  This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after  the passage thereof,
and  continue in  force  for  one year,  and
from thence to the end of the' next session
of Congress.
   Sec. 5. And belt further enacted, That
in the recess of the Senate, the President
•f the United States is  hereby authorised 
144
to appoint all the officers  proper to  be ap-
pointed under this act; which appointments
shall be  submitted  to the  Senate at their
next session for their advice and consent.*
    January 2, 1812.

  * The above provisions continued for one year,
allowing ten companies only.   Vide Act 24th Febru-
ary, 1814.


AN ACT to authorise the President to receive into
        service certain Volunteer Corps.

   BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives  of the United States
of America in  Congress assembled, That
the President of the United  States be, and
he is hereby authorised to receive into the
service of the United States such propor-
tion of the volunteers authorised by  the act
of sixth February, one thousand eight hun-
dred and twelve, and the act supplementa-
ry thereto, of the sixth July, one thousand
eight hundred  and  twelve, and  accepted
under  the authority of said acts; as in his
judgment the public service may  require:
Provided, That the volunteers so received,
shall engage to  serve for five years  or du-
ring the war, unless sooner discharged 
145
  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the volunteers which shall  be taken  into
service under the authority of the preced-
ing section, shall be entitled  to  the same
bounty, pay, rations, clothing, forage, and
emoluments of every kind, and to the same
benefits and  allowances  as  the regular
troops of the United States.
  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the oflicers of corps of volunteers which
shall   be  taken  into  service,  shall  rank
according to grade and  the  dates of their
commissions  or  appointments with other
officers of the army.

  February 24, 1814.
     LAWS RELATIVE TO MILITIA.

AN ACT more effectually to provide for the nafiv
  onal de ence, by establishing an uniform Militia
  throughout the United Stales.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the  United States
of America in Congress assembled,..........
That every citizen regularly enrolled in the
militia of the United States, shall provide
himself with a good  musket or firelock,
                   if 
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a sufficient bayonet  and  belt,  two spare
flints, and a  knapsack,  a  pouch  with
a box therein to contain not less  than
twenty-four  cartridges, suited to the bore
of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to
contain a  proper  quantity of powder and
ball; or with a good rilie, knapsack,  shot
pouch, and powder horn, twenty balls suit-
ed to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter
of a pound of powder; and shall appear, so
armed, accoutred, and provided, when cal-
led out to  exercise, or into service, except,
that when called out on company  days to
exercise only,  he may appear without a
knapsack.  That the  commissioned oflicers
shall severally be armed w ith a  sword or
hanger and espontoon, and that from and
after five years from the passing of this act,
all muskets for arming the militia as herein
required,  shall be  ot bores  sufficient for
balls of the eighteenth part  of a pound.
And every citizen so enrolled  and provi-
ding himself with the arms, ammunition,
and  accoutrements required  as aforesaid,
shall hold  the same exempted from all suits,
distresses, executions or sales,  for  debt  or
for the payment of taxes
   Sec. 2. (Omitted.) 
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   See. 3. And be it further enacted, That
within one year after the passing of this
act, the militia of the respective states shall
be arranged into divisions, brigades, regi-
ments, battalions, and  companies, as  the
legislature of each state shall direct; and
each division, brigade, and regiment, shall
be numbered at the formation thereof, and
a record made of such numbers in the  ad-
jutant  general's  office  in the  state;  and
when in the field, or in service in the state,
each division, brigade, and regiment, shall,
respectively, take rank  according  to their
numbers,  reckoning the  first  or lowest
number highest in rank. That if the same
be convenient, each  brigade shall consist
of four regiments; each regiment of two
battalions; each battalion of five companies;
each company of sixty-four privates.  That
the said militia shall be officered by  the
respective states, as follows:  To each divi-
sion, one major general  and  two aids  de-
camp, with the rank of major; to each bri-
gade, one brigadier general with one bri-
gade  inspector,  to serve  also as  brigade
major, with the rank of  a major; to each
regiment, one lieutenant colonel command-
ant; and to each  battalion, one major;  to
each company, one captain, one lieutenant. 
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one ensign,  four serjernts, four corporals,
one  drummer  and one  fifer or  bugler.
That there shall be a regimental staff, to
consist of one adjutant and one quartermas-
ter, to rank as lieutenants; one paymaster,
one surgeon, and one surgeon's mate; one
serjeant major, one drum major, and one
fife major.
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
out of the militia enrolled, as is herein di-
rected, there shall be formed for each bat-
talion at least one cempany  of grenadiers,
light infantry, or riflemen; and that to each
division, there  shall be at  least  one com-
pany of artillery and one  troop  of horse:
there shall be to each company of artillery,
one captain, two lieutenants, four Serjeants,
four corporals, six gunners, six bombar-
dier , one drummer, and  one fifer.  The
officers to be armed with a sword or hang
er. a fusee, bayonet and  belt, with a car-
tridge  box to  contain twelve  cartridges;
and each private or  matross shall  furnish
himself with all the equipments of a  private
in t1 e infantry, until  proper ordnance  and
field artillery is provided.   There  shall be
to e-.u h troop  of horse, one captain, two
lieutenants, one comet, four Serjeants, four
corporals, one saddler, one farrier, and one 
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tmm peter.  The commissioned officers to
furnish themselves with good horses  of at
least fourteen hands and an half high, and
to be armed with a sword and pair of pis-
tols, the holsters  of  which to  be covered
with bear  skin caps.  Each  dragoon to
furnish himself with a serviceable horse, at
least fourteen hands  and  an half high,  a
good saddle, bridle, mail pillion and valise,
holsters, and a breast plate and crupper,  a
pair of boots and spurs, a pair of pistols,  a
sabre, and a cartouch box to contain twelve
cartridges for pistols.   That each company
of artillery and troop of horse shall be form-
ed of volunteers from the brigade, at the
discretion of the commander  in chief of the
state, not exceeding one company of each
to a regiment, nor more  in  number than
one eleventh part of the infantry, and shall
be uniformly clothed in regimentals  to be
furnished at their own expense;  the  color
and fashion to be determined by the briga-
dier  commanding  the brigade to which
they belong.
  Sec.  5. And be it further enacted, That
each battalion and regiment shall  be provi-
ded with the state  and regimental  colors
by the  field officers,  and each  company
with a  drum and  fife, or  bugle  horn, by
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(he commissioned officers of the company,
in such manner as the legislature of the re-
spective states shall direct.
   Sec. 6.  Omitted.
   Sec. 7.   do.
   Sec. 8.   do.
   Sec. 9.   do.
   Sec. 10. do.
   Sec. 11. do.

May 8, IT?>.
AN ACT to regulate the pay of the »>n-commi»-
  sioned oflicers, musicians, and privates of the Mi-
  litia of the United States, when called into actual
  service, and for other purposes.

   Sec.  1. Annulled.
   Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
in addition to the monthly pay, there  shall
be allowed to each officer,  non-commis-
sioned officer, musician, and private of the
cavalry, for the use of his horse, arms and
accoutrements, and for the risk thereof, ex-
cept of horses killed in action, forty cents
per day; and to  each non-commissioned
officer, musician and  private,  twenty-five
cents per day, in lieu of rations and forage,
when they shall provide the same. 
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  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
whenever the militia shall be  called into
the  actual service of the United  States,
their pay shall be deemed to  commence
from  the day  of their  appearing at the
places  of battalion, regimental, or brigade
rendezvous;  allowing to  each non-com-
missioned officer, musician, and  private
soldier, a day's pay  and rations for every
fifteen miles from his home to such place
of rendezvous,  and the  same  allowance
for travelling home from the place of dis-
charge.
  Sec. 4. Executed.
  Sec. 5. Annulled.
  Sec. 6. Annulled.
January 2, 17^5.
AN ACT to provide for calling forth the Mihtia to
  execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrec-
  tions, and repel invasions; and to repeal the act
  now in force for those purposes.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled,  That
whenever the  United States  shall be  inva-
ded or be in imminent danger of invasion 
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from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it
shall  be lawful for the President of the
United States, to call forth such number
of the militia of  the state, or states,  most
convenient to the place of danger, or scene
of action, as he may judge  necessary to re-
pel sucii invasion, and to  issue his orders
for that purpose, to such officer or  oflicers
of the  militia, as he shall think  proper.
And in case  of an insurrection in any  state,
against the government thereof, it shall be
lawful  for the  President  of the  United
States, on application of the legislature  of
such state, or of the executive (when the
legislature  cannot be  convened,)  to call
forth  such number of the  militia  of any
other state or states, as may be applied for,
as he may judge sufficient to suppress such
insurrection.
   See 2. And be it further enacted,That
whenever the  laws of the United States
shall be  opposed, or the execution  thereof
obstructed, in any  state, by combinations
too powerful to be suppressed  by  the or-
dinary  course of judicial  proceedings, or
by the powers vested in the marshals by
this act, it sha1! be lawful for the President
of the United States, to call forth the mili-
tia of such state,  or of any other state or 
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states,  as may be  necessary to  suppress
such combinations,  and to cause  the  laws
to be duly executed; and the use of militia
so to be called forth may be continued, if
necessary,  until the  expiration  of  thirty
days alter the  commencement of the then
next session of Congress.
   Sec. 3. Provided always, and be it fur-
ther enacted, That whenever it may be
necessary, in  the judgment  of the Presi-
dent, to use  the military force  hereby di-
rected  to be  called  forth,  the President
shall forthwith, by proclamation, command
such insurgents  to  disperse,  and  retire
peaceably to their respective abodes, with-
in a limited  time.
   Sec. 4. And be it  further  enacted, That
the militia employed in  the service  of the
United States  sliall  be subject to the same
rules and articles of war,  as  the troops of
the United  States:  And  that  no officer,
non commissioned officer, or private of the
militia, shall be compelled to serve more
than three months, after his arrival at the
place of rendezvous,  in any one year, nor
more than in due rotation  with even other
able  bodied  man of the same rank in the
battalion to which he belongs. 
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  Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
every officer, non commissioned officer, or
private of the militia, wlio shall fail to obey
the orders of the President of the United
States, in any of the cases before recited,
shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one year's
 Eay, and not less than one month's pay, to
 e determined and  adjudged by  a  court
martial;  and such oflicer, shall, moreover,
be liable to be cashiered  by sentence  of a
court martial, and  be incapacitated  from
holding a commission in the  militia, for a
term not exceeding twelve months, at the
discretion of the said court: And such non-
commissioned officers and privates shall be
liable to be imprisoned, by a  like sentence,
on failure of payment of the fines adjudged
against them, for one calendar month, for
every five dollars of such fine.
   Sec. 6. And be it further  enacted, That
courts martial for  the trial of militia shall
be composed of militia officers only.
   Sec..7. And be it further  enacted, That
all fines to be assessed  as  aforesaid,  shall
be certified by the presiding  officer  of the
 court martial before wdiom the  same shall
 be assessed, to the marshal of the district, in
 which the delinquent shall reside, or to one
 of his deputies, and also to the  supervisor 
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of the revenue of the  same district, who
shall record the said certificate in  a book
to be kept  for that purpose.  The  said
marshal, or his deputy, shall forthwith pro-
ceed to  levy the said fines with costs, by
distress  and sale  of the  goods and chat-
tels of the  delinquent; which costs and  the
manner of proceeding, with respect to  the
sale of the goods distrained, shall be agree-
able to the laws of the state, in which  the
same shall be, in  other cases of distress.
And where any non-commissioned officer
or private  shall be adjudged to suffer  im-
prisonment, there.being no goods  or chat-
tels to be found, whereof to  levy  the said
fines, the marshal of the district, or his de-
puty, may commit such delinquent to gaol,
during the term for which he  shall be so
adjudged to imprisonment, or until the fine
shall be paid, in the same manner as other
persons condemned to  fine and imprison-
ment, at the suit of the United States, may
be committed.
   Sec. 8.  Repealed.
   Sec. 9.  And be it further enacted, That
the marshals of the  several districts,  and
their deputies, shall have the same powers
in executing the laws of the United States
as sheriffs and their deputies, in the several 
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states, have by law, in executing the law *■
of die respective states.
   See. 10. And be it further enacted, That
the act. entitled ''  An act to provide  for
calling forth the militia, to execute the laws
of the Union, suppress insurrections,  and
repel invasions," passed the second day  of
May,  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and
ninety-two, shall be, and  the same is here-
by repealed.

  February 28, 1793.
AN ACT supplementary to an act, entitled " An
  act to provide for calling foith the Militia to exe-
  cute the laws, suppress insuncctions, and repel in-
  vasions," and to repeal the act now in force for
  those purposes, and to increase the pay of Volun-
  tee. and Militia Corps.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of  Representatives of the United States
of  America in  Congress assembled, That
in every case in wdiieh  a court martial shall
have  adjudged  and  determined  a  fine
against any  officer, non-commissioned  of-
ficer, musician,  or private of the militia, for
any of the  causes specified  in  the act to
which this act is  a supplement,  or in the 
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fourth section of an act, entitled ''  An act
to authorise a detachment from the militia
of the United  States;" all such fines so as-
seshed, shall be certified to the C( ii| troller
of the  Treasury of the United States, in
the same manner as the act to which this
is a  supplement directed the same  to  be
certified to the supervisor of the revenue.
  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the marshals shall pay all fines which have
been levied and collected by them  or their
respective deputies, under the authority of
the acts herein referred to, into the Trea-
sury  of the  United  States,  within two
months after they shall have received the
same, deducting five  per centum  for their
own trouble; and in case of failure, it shall
be the duty of the Comptroller of the Trea-
sury  to give notice to the district  attorney
of the  United States, who shall  proceed
against  the  said marshal in the district
court by attachment for the recovery of the
same.
  Sec. 3.  And be it further enacted, That
the non-commissioned officers, musicians,
and privates of volunteer and militia corps,
who, subsequent to  the  thirty-first day of
December, eighteen hundred and twelve,
shall have been or may hereafter be called
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out, while in the service of the  United
States, shall, during the continuance of the
present war between the united  kingdom
of (heat Britain and Ireland, and the de-
pcndeuc'cs thereof, and the  United  States
of America and their territories, be entitled
to and receive the  same monthly  pay, ra-
tions, and forage, and be furnished with
the same camp equipage as are or may be
provided by law for the non-commissioned
officers, musicians, and privates of the ar-
my of the United States.

  February 2, 1813.
AN ACT to provide for the widows and orphans  of
  militia slain, and for militia disabled in the service
  of the United States.

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
if any commissioned officer of the militia,
or of any  volunteer corps, shall, while in
the service of the  United States,  die by
reason of any wound  received in  actual
service of the  United  States, and  leave  a
widow, or if no wridovv, a child or children 
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under sixteen years of age, such widow,
or if  no  widow, such child or children,
shall be entitled to receive half 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 case of the death
or intermarriage of such widow, before the
expiration of the  said  term  of five years,
the half pay for the  remainder  of the t me
shall go to the child or children of s>eh
deceased officer: Provided  always,  That
such half pay shall  cease on the  death oi
such, child or children.
  Sec.  2. And be it further enacted, That
if any  officer,  non-eommissioned officer,
musician, or private of the militia or of any
volunteer corps, shall be disabied by known
wounds received in the actual service of
the United States, while in the  line of his
duty, he shall, upon substantiating his claim
in the manner described by an act, enti-
tled '> An act to provide  for persons who
were disabled >y known  wounds  received
in the revolutioMary war," passed the tenth
day of April, one  thousand  eight  hundred
and six, be placed on the list of invalids of
the United States, at such rate of pension,
and under such regulations as arc provided
by  tiie  said act, or as may hereafter be 
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provided by law: Provided always. That
the compensation to  be  allowed for  such
wounds  or disabilities, to  a non commis-
sioned officer, shall  not exceed, for the
highest rate of disability, half the monthly
pay of such officer at the time of his being
woumkd or disabled; and  that no officer
shall receive more than the half pay  of a
lieutenant colonel; and that  the rate of com-
pensation to  non-commissioned  officers,
musicians, and privates, shall  not exceed
five dollars per month: And provided also,
That all inferior disabilities shall entitle the
persons so disabled,  to receive an allow-
ance  proportionate to the  highest disabi-
lity.
   Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the provisions of this act shall be construed
to have eftect  from and after the eighteenth
day of June, one thousand  eight hundred
and twelve.
   Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the sixth section  of an act, entitled " An
act authorising the President of the United
States to accept and organize certain  vo-
lunteer military corps,1' passed the sixth
day of February, one thousand eight hun-
dred and twelve, be, and the same is here.
by repealed.
  August 2, 1*1 '>. 
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AN ACT in fuither addition  to an act, entitled
  " An act mo e ei.ectually to provide for the nation-
  al cit-icice, by  establi^hin. an  uniform  militia
  throughout the United States."'

  BE it enacted by the Senate ajid House
of Representatives  of the United States
of America in  Congress assembled, That
in addition to the officers of the militia pro-
vided for by the act entitled " An act more
effectually to provide for the national de-
fence  by  establishing  an uniform milita
throughout the  United States," approved
May the eighth, one thousand seven hun-
dred and ninety-two, and by an act in ad-
dition  to  the  said  recited act, approved
March the second, one thousand eight hun-
dred and three, there shall be to each divi-
sion, one division inspector, with the rank
of lieutenant colonel, and one division quar-
ter master, with the  rank of major; to each
brigade one aid de-camp, with the rank of
captain:  and  the quartermasters  of bri-
gades heretofore provided  for by law shall
have the rank of captain.  And it shall  be
incumbent on  the said officers to do and
perform all the duties which by  law and 
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military principles are attached to their of-
fices respectively.

  April IS, 1814,
AN ACT in addition to the act, entiUed " An act
  to provide fo  calling forth the militia to execute
  the laws of t!»e union, suppress insui i ections, and
  repel inva- ions, and to repeal the act now in force
  for those purposes."

  BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the  United  States
of America, in Congr'ess assembled, That
courts martial, to be  composed of militia
officers alone, for the trial of militia drafted,
det iched, and called forth for the  service
of the  Unite!  States, whether acting  in
conjunction  with the  regular  forces   or
otherwise, shall, whenever necessary, be
appointed, held and conducted in the man-
ner nrescribed by the rules and articles  of
war for appointing, holding,  and conduct-
ing  courts martial for the trial of delin*
qu >nts in tV army of the  United States.
   Sec. 2.  And be. it further enacted, That
in all cases in the militia,  where an offence
is punis'mble  by  stoppage of pay or by
feaposing a fine, limited by the  amount «f 
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pay, the same shall be taken to have rela-
tion to  the monthly  pay existing  at the
time the offence was committed.
  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
if any delinquent directed to be summoned
to appear before a court martial for neglect
or refusal to obey the orders of the  Presi-
dent of the United States in any  of the
cases recited in the first, second, third and
fourth sections of the act, entitled " An act
to  provide  for calling forth  the  militia to
execute the laws of the union, suppress in-
surrections, and repel invasions, and to re-
peal the act now in force for those purpo-
ses,"  passed February  twenty eight, one
thousand seven  hundred and ninety five,
shall be absent when any non-commission-
ed officer shall call to summon him, it shall
be a sufficient summoning of such  delin-
quent  if the non commissioned officer leave
a copy of the summons or a written  notice
thereof, signed by him, with some person
of  suitable  age and discretion, at the usual
place of abode of such delinquent at least
ten days previous to the day of appearance.
And in ease of the  non-appearance of such
delinquent,  the court martial  may proceed
with his trial in the same manner as if he 
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had appeared and plead not guilty to the
charge exhibited against him.
   Sec. 4. And be t further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the president  of any
court martial for the trial  of militia, if re-
quired, and upon his being  duly satisfied
that such testimony is material to the trial,
to issue his precept directed to any  person
to be summoned as a witness, command-
ing his or her attendance  at  such court to
testify for or against the person to be tried,
as the case may be; and any witness hav-
ing been duly summoned, and failing to
appear, without a reasonable excuse, shall
forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty
dollars,  to be sued for and recovered in
the name  of the United  States, by bill,
plaint, or  information, in  any court  of
competent  jurisdiction.   And if any  w it-
ncss  when  called  upon for that purpose
shall refuse to  testify, or shall behave with
contempt to the court, or if any other  per-
son shall use any menacing words, signs,
or  gestures,  in presence  thereof, or shall
cause any riot or disorder therein,  it shall
be  lawful for such court  to  punish every
such offender by imprisonment for a term
not exceeding one month at the  discretion
of the C3u;t. 
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  See. 5. A^ndbe it further enacted, That
for the purpose of carrying into execution
the  sentence,  judgment  or  cider of any
such court martial, lor any of the  offences
speeiiieJ in the last clause of the preceding
section of this act, it shall  be lawful for the
court to issue an order to any ccmn is;don-
ed oflicer of militia not  below the  raid, of
captain, commanding  him  to  cairy  the
same into  effect by military  force, whose
duty it shall be to obey the same, and exe-
cute the order accordingly.
  Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
on the trial of delinquents, for offences not
capital, by any such court martial, the de-
position of witnesses taken before a justice
of i e  peace or other  person  authorised to
take affidavits to  be read in  ar y court of
record in  the  state where the same shall
be  taken,  may be read in evidence, pro-
vided  the prosecutor  and person  accused
are present at taking the same, or are duly
notified thereof.  And further, that the re-
turns of captains or other commanding of-
ficers of companies, of  delinquents drafted
or ordered into the service  of the  I'nited
States, who shall have refused  or  neglect-
ed  to enter the same,  sworn to as aforesaid. 
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shall  be competent evidence of the facts
therein contained.
   see. 7. And be it further enacted, That
if a ay per.siin shall wilfully swear false be-
fore. Jiivf stuii  court martial, or in any affi-
davit  >v  deposition  taken as aforesaid, he
in- she  shall be adjudged to  be guilty of
wilful  and  corrupt  perjury, and shall be
indicted, tried and  punished  accordingly,
by any  court of competent jurisdiction in
the state where such offence shall be com-
mi', ted.
   Sec. 8. And be it  further enacted. That
the militia, waen called into the service of
the United States by virtue of  the  before
recited  act, may,  if in  the opinion  of the
President of the United States  the  public
interest require  it,  be compelled to  serve
for a term not exceeding six months after
th.ur arrival at the place of rendezvous in
anv one year.
   See. 9* And be it further enacted. That
regimental chaplains in the militia  which
have,  been or  shall  be called  into the ser-
vice of the United  States, shall  receive the
sa o • monthly pay and  rations as a captain
of iaf.ntry, with the addition  of forage for
one :i n--;-», and >vb*nev'*r called forth mto
the service  of the United States, division 
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quartermasters shall be entitled to the pay,
emoluments and allowances of a deputy
quartermaster  general;  brigade  quarter-
masters to the pay, emoluments and allow-
ances of an assistant deputy quartern aster
general; and regimental quartermasters to
the pay and emoluments of a lieutenant of
infantry, and sixteen drllars per n t nth  in
addition thereto, and forage for ore horse;
division inspectors shall be entitled to  the
pay, emoluments and allow arces ot a lieu-
tenant colonel of infantry; brigade majors
to the pay, emoluments and allowarces  of
a major of infantry; aids-de carrp  to briga-
dier generals to the pay,  emoluments and
allowances of a captain of infantry, v ith
an addition of sixteen dollars per month,.
and forage for one horse.
   Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That
the expenses incurred or to be ircurred by
marching the militia of any state  or terri-
tory of the United States to their places of
rendezvous, in pursuance  of a reru'sition
of the President  of the United States,  or
which shall have been or may be  incurred
in cases of calls made by the authority  of
any  state   or territory  v. h;cb s'all h.ve
been or may be approved  by  him, si all be
adjusted and  paid in like manner  as the 
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expenses incurred after their arrival at such
place  of rendezvous on the requisition of
tiie President of die United States: 1'rcvi-
deci,  That nothing  herem contained shall
be considered as authorising any  species
of expenditure previous to  arriving at  the
place of rendezvous, which is not provided
by exist.ng laws to  be. paid tor after their
arrival at such place of rendezvous.
   Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That
in all cases where a brigade ot militia shall
 be called  forth for  actual, service, it shall
be the duty  of the brigade major of such
 brigade to  inspect  and muster  the  same,
 and sign the muster rolls, conformably to
 the provisions of the act entitled " An  act
 more effectually  to provide for the national
 defence by establishing an  uniform militia
 throughout the United  States." It less than
 a brigade  be called  forth, then it shall be
 the duty of  a brigade major of the  district
 wherein such militia may rendezvous, to
 inspect and  muster  the same, and sign  the
 muster  rolls: two musters to  be made in
 the manner aforesaid, one on the  assem-
 bling and the other on the  discharge of
 such militia. If there should be no brigade
"major in the vicinity, the commanding of-
 ficer raav  direct anv officer under the rank 
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of lieutenant colonel, whether of the regular
troops or militia, to inspect and muster the
militia so called forth.
  Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That
any  commissioned  officer, non-commis-
sioned officer, musician or  private of the
militia of the  United  States,  who shall
have  committed an offence while in the
actual  service of the United States, may
be tried  and punished for the  same, al-
though his term of service may have expi-
red,  in like manner as if he had been ac-
tually in  the service of the United States.
   See. 13. Andbeit further enacted, That
this act be continued in force for and dur-
ing the present war, and no longer.

  April 18, 18H,
p 
RULES AND  REGULATIONS.
War Office, May 2, 18H.
          RANK  OF REGIMENTS.

1st. The Light Artillery.
2d. The Light Dragoons.
•3d. The Foot Artillery.
, ,  mi. i c  .         ") According to the num-
V^ ™ * \?£ntry'       tbers of  the  regiments
5th. The Riflemen.      C respectively.

6th. The Volunteers in the 1 - According to the num-
  service of  the  United
  States, and
7th The Militia Dr.d..*.
 bets given to them
-spectively by the gene-
 ral commanding the dis-
 trict.
  This regulation is confined to parades.
On all other occasions, regiments will  be
drawn up  in  the  \v ay  w Inch shall be  di-
rected by the  general, or other  command-
ing officer.

           RANK OF  OFFICERS.

  In all cases  in  which command  shall
not have been  specially given,  the eldest
officer, whether of cavalry, of artillery, or
of infantrv, wiU command 
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  Where a  controversy concerning rank
shall arise from the  sameness of date in
commissions, it shall  be determined by re-
ference to former commissions in the re-
gular service;  and  if none  such  should
have been held, by former commissions in
the militia.
  Brevet rani-: gives no precedence  nor
command,  except on detachments;  nor
shall persons having  such rank only, be
included  in  the roster of officers for  any
duty other than that performed by detach-
ments, and to which  they shall be special-
ly assigned.
   Oflicers of the regul?- army of the same
grade with those of the volunteers and mi-
litia, have precedence of these, whatever
may be the dates of their respective com-
missions.
   There is  no precedence between  staff
departments.   The  officers  assigned to
these, will take rank, 1st, from the brevets
they hold, and 2d, from the rank they re-
spectively have in the line.
                             May 30,  1813.

Principles governing the decision of rank.
   1st. Rank in actual service, when ap-
pointed. 
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  2d. Former rank and service in the ar-
my, or marine corps, of the United States.
  3d. Lotten ....an org such as have not
before been in the military service of the
United States.

 RULES WITH REGARD TO PROMOTION.

  1.  Original  vacancies will be supplied
by seection;  accidental vacancies by se-
niority, excepting in extraordinary  cases.
  2.  Promotions  to the rank of captain,
will  be  made  rcgimentally;  to that of
field  appointments, by line; the light artil-
lery, dragoons, artillery, infantry and rifle-
men, being kept always distinct.
  3.  No officer shall  be  entitled  to the
pay,  rations,  or  emoluments annexed to
any office, until he shall have notice of his
appointment thereto from the war depart-
ment; or from a  general officer, with re-
spect to appointments in the gift of gene-
rals.
                              May 2, 1814.

  When an officer is officially  advised of
promotion, he may receive the difference
of pay and emoluments from the date of
his promotion. 
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  COMPLIMENTS  TO BE  PAID BY THE
               TROOPS.

  The highest military honors are payable
to the President and Vice President of the
United States, whether in uniform or not.
  To the secretary of war, to major gene-
rals commanding  districts or corps of the
army, and to governors of states, when in
uniform,  the same  honors will  be  paid;
with this exception, that to them the stand-
ards of the cavalry will not be dropped in
saluting.
  All other major generals are entitled to
three ruffles of the  drum, with presented
arms, and  to the dropping of all colors
other than the standards.
  Brigadier  generals  commanding dis-
tricts or corps of  the army, are entitled to
the honors payable to major  generals not
commanding in chief.
  All other brigadiers are entitled to two
ruffles of the drum and presented arms.
  To colonels, the  guards  of their own
regiments turn out and present their arms,
once a day;  after which, they only turn
out with ordered arms.
p2 
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  To lieutenant colonels and majors, their
own guards turn out with ordered arms,
oner a day.
  When a  lieutenant  colonel or  major
shall command  a regiment,  their own
quarter guards pay them the compliments
due to a colonel.
  When a general or other officer, entitled
to a salute, shall pass in the rear of a
guard,  it  will not face about, but stand
with shouldered arms.
  When a general or other officer, entitled
to a salute, shall pass guards while in the
act  of relieving, both guards  will  salute,
taking the word of command  from the se-
nior officer of the two.
  Military compliments are to be paid  to
officers  of the  navy, when  in  uniform,
agreeably to their rank, as follows, viz.
  Commodores w ith broad pendants, have
the same compliments as  brigadier gene-
rals; and all other post captains, those due
to colonels.
  All guards are to be  under  arms when
an  armed party  approaches  their posts,
and to parties commanded by a commis-
sioned officer, they will present  arms and
beat a march, and the officers will salute* 
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  The colors of a regiment passing any
guard, will be saluted, the drums of the
regiment saluting in turn.
  When two regiments meet on a march,
the  regiment of inferior rank, will  halt,
form, and salute the other, which proceeds
on its march, with swords drawn, bayo-
nets fixed, trumpets sounding, drums beat-
ing,  and colors  flying, until it shall have
cleared the front of the latter regiment.
  All regiments marching with standards
or colors, have claim to the  compliments
of any regiment they may meet on their
march not having standards or  colors,
without regard to the rank of the particu-
lar corps.

               SALUTES.

  The national  salute shall  be conforma-
ble to the number of states composing the
union.
  A  national salute shall be fired on  a
visit to the post from the President of the
United  States.
  Fifteen guns  shall be  fired on  a visit
from the  vice president, the secretary of
war, secretary of the navy, a major gene-
ral of the army; and thirteen guns on that 
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of a brigadier general, when commanding
a district.   No other persons shall be en-
titled  to salutes, and  no salutes  will  be
fired to any person but on his arrival.
   No salutes shall be fired to foreign ships
or  vessels of war, but  in  return, and in
every  case  their salute  shall be returned
gun "for gun, notice being given.
   No  salutes shall be fired to public arm-
ed vessels of the United States, under the
rate of a frigate, and to these  only in re-
turn, gun for gun, notice being given.
   At 1 o'clock, on the fourth day of July
of each year, a national salute w ill be fired
from all the military posts and forts  in the
United States.
   Salutes shall not be fired from guns of
higher caliber than twelve pounders.

    DUTIES  OF ADJUTANTS  GENERAL.

   These  will be divided under  the follow-
ing heads, viz:
   Distribution of orders:
   Details of service:
   Instruction of the  troops in the manual
exercise, and the evolutions and  arrange-
ment  of  them when  brought into  action;
and 
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  Direction of the military correspondence.
       1.  Distribution of Orders.
  The general  orders  of the day having
been received from the commanding ge-
neral, the adjutant general or his assistant
will carry them  to the office of distribution,
where they will  be  recorded in a  book
kept for that purpose, whence, at an  hour
which shall have been previously assigned,
they will  be  transcribed by the  aids-de-
camp of  general officers,  by  majors of
brigade, by the adjutants of all separate
corps  less than  brigades, by a deputy or
assistant deputy quartermaster general, by
an hospital surgeon, or  an hospital  sur-
geon's mate detailed  for  that duty by the
senior surgeon,  and  some  commissioned
officer from each corps of engineers; and
when so transcribed, they will be carried
without delay to the corps to which  these
officers respectively belong, and be  there
promulgated, under the orders of  the offi-
cers commanding the corps, and become
to them a rule of conduct.
         2. Details of Service.
  These shall be made agreeably to pre-
scribed rules, and the usage of war. 
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   All corps will furnish according to their
strength....the longer t oft' duty, the first on
duty.   When it may be found practicable,
the troops are to act by companies,  batta-
lions or regiments.
   Return  detachments will not be excused
from duty more than two days.
   Seniority of corps, with respect to troops,
and priority of rank, with respect to offi-
cers, will  entitle to precedence for com-
mand;  subject to deviations under the or-
ders of the commanding general.
   In details the following  gradations will
govern:
   1. Reconnoitring parties and corps  of
observation.
« 2. Foraging before the enemy.
  3. Detachments and outposts.
  4. Guards of trenches.
  5. Van  guards in approaching an ene-
my.
  6. Rear guards in retiring from an ene-
my.
  7. General courts martial.
  8. Guard of the general commanding in
chief.
  9. Camp or garrison guards.
  10.  Other  guards mounted  from the
grand parade. 
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   11. Guards of general officers and the
 staff according to rank.
   12. Pickets.
   13. General fatigues.
   14. Police.
   In the routine of duty the law of detail
 will always give it to the officer longest off
 duty, and when two have been  credited
 with the same grade  of service,  on the
 same day, reference to the former tour on
 the roster, will determine the detail.
   Should a tour of service of higher grade
 occur to an officer, while on any  subordi-
 nate duty,  he shall  be relieved,  and tfre
 tour on which he is, be passed to his  ere--*,
 dit.                                   i,h
   If an  officer's tour for general court
 martial, picket, or fatigue occur, while he
 is on any other  duty from the grancL pa-
 rade, he" shall not be  relieved, but stand
 for the next tour.

      3.  Instruction of the troops.

   This  shall  be  governed  by  circum-
stances, as  to time, place, and frequency;
of which the commanding general  will
judge.   The mode of infantry discipline, 
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adopted by regulation of the war depart-
ment, will be observed.

      4. Military Correspondence.

  Reports of services performed, and de-
mands for courts  of enquiry,  or  courts
martial, shall be made to the adjutant ge-
neral.  All returns intended to exhibit the
strength of corps, made agreeably to the
19th article of w ar, and accounting for the
absent non-commissioned  officers, musi-
cians, and privates, reports of the hospital
and  of  the  quartermaster's  departments;
and  o( ordnance and  of  ordnance stores
attached to  the army; shall  also be ad-
dressed'to the adjutant  general; out  of
which he shall form a  general  return,  to
be transmitted monthly, for the informa-
tion  of the  war  department; and  those
transmitted for the  months  of  June and
December,  shall  be  accompanied   with
lists  of the officers serving in any gairison
or corps of the district or army so return-
ed,  specifying  their  names, rank,  and
places of station.   Returns of ordnance
and  ordnance stores, shall  be made agree-
ably to forms prescribed bv the commissa-
ry general of ordnance.  Departures from 
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these forms and inattention to the injuiuv
tions above, will be regarded  and punish-
ed as acts of positive disobedience.
                            July 9, 1813.

  The returns required of adjutants gene-
ral, for the information of the war depart-
ment, will exhibit regiments  and detach-
ments of  regiments and corps, separately,
and by number if regiments, and by nam<£
if corps.
                   War Office,  May 1, 1813.

   DUTIES OF INSPECTORS GENERAL.

  These  will be divided under the follow-
ing heads, viz.
  Mustering and  inspecting troops of the
line, and  militia detachments serving with
them:
  Selecting places of encampment, and
posting guards:
  Superintending  the police  of the camp
and of the march:
  Inspecting parades: and
  Making half yearly confidential reports
to the War Department,  of the state of the
army,  division or  detachment to  which
they belong. 
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 1. Mustering and inspecting the troops
   of the line and Militia Detachments.

   Troops of all descriptions shall be mus-
 tered once in two  months,  for  payment,
 nor shall any payment be  made  but upon
 muster rolls signed  by an inspector gene-
 ral, or his assistant, or  in the absence of
 these, by some officer of the army of the
 United  States, especially assigned to  this
 duty by the general commanding the  dis-
 trict in which the said troops so  mustered
 shall  be  found.  Three copies  of these
 rolls shall in all cases  be made; two of
 them to be deposited with the paymaster,
 whose duty it is to pay  the troops thus
 mustered, and the third transmitted to the
 office of the adjutant and inspector general
 at Washington
   Semi-annual musters of the whole army,
 whether regular or  militia, shall  be made
 on or before  the 1st day of January  and
 1st day of July, in each  year;  and rolls
 thereof,  in alphabetical  order, forwarded
 to the War  Department,  as  promptly
 thereafter as possible.
  Inspections of the troops are of  two
kinds, rtated  and occasional.  The form-
 er shall take place monthly,  and  (as often 
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 as may be practicable) on the last day of
 cacii month;  the latter as  often as the ge-
 neral  commanding the  district, the  chief
 of the ^taJ, or the inspector general, may
 think  proper.  The general object ot both,
 shall be to ascertain the exact state of the
 arms,  equipments, and  clothing, and of
 every other circumstance  tending  to show
 the actual condition of the troops so in-
 spected.
    Dragoon, artillery, and all other horses
 belonging to  the public, will also be sub-
 jects  of  inspection, quarterly; those  unfit
 for service will be branded in the presence
 of the inspecting officer, with the letter C,
 and immediately transferred to the quar-
 termaster general's department,  for public
 sale;  nor shall any horse so branded, be
 thereafter accepted by any inspecting offi-
 cer.  Returns of cast horses will be made
, quarterly.
    A  return  of every inspection,  shall be
 made and deposited in the office of the in-
 spector general, for the information  of the
 general commanding the  district;  and half
 yearly returns of inspection shall  be made
 to the War Department, 
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t. Superintending the police of the camp
           and of the march.

  It will be the  duty of this department,
to designate all guards for the security and
good order of the camp, to take charge of
all prisoners made  by these or  otherwise,
to examine and report the several cases to
the commanding general, and to take his
orders in relation to  their future disposal;
to inspect the state  of tents barracks and
hospitals, to punish any want of  care  or
cleanliness  therein, to regulate  all  suttlers
and markets, within any  camp, canton-
ment, or garrison; and to inspect and en-  r
force the order of march, and to punish all ' *
infractions of it.

         3. Inspecting Parades.

  The troops detailed from each regiment *
for the service of the day will belbrougbt ^
to the parade ground of the brigade, under
the command of the  senior officer present,
and on duty; these detachments will there
be  embodied and marched to  the  ground
of  division  parade,  accompanied  by the
adjutant  of the  day, under command of
the senior officer; the whole will then be 
185
marched as aforesaid, to  the  ground of
general parade, accompanied by a major
of brigade, detailed for that service by di-
vision orders; where they will be received
by an inspector or assistant  inspector ge-
neral, reviewed and detached for the ser-
vice of the day.

1. Selecting places for encampment and
            posting guards.

  This duty shall be performed under  the
directions of the commanding general; and
the inspector in performing it shall  call to
his aid an officer from each corps of engi-
neers.

&. Making half yearly confidential re-
    ports to the War Department.

   These reports will relate to the conduct
of corps and to that of individuals compo-
sing them.  They  shall  be submitted to
the general commanding the army, and
shall receive from him his remarks in wri-
ting,  before  they are transmitted to the
War  Department.  They shall specify...
   1st.   The progress made by each corps
    or regiment, in military discipline hi
                -V2 
186
   general, and particularly in a know
   lege of the evolutions prescribed for
   the practice of the troops; in habits of
   obedience and of attention to personal
   appearance, and to  the  rules  of in-
   terior economy.
2d. Whether the field and company of-
   ficers respectively  know their duty,
   and are able and  willing to  perform
   it? whether the subalterns are several-
   ly sober, active, and industrious, care-
   ful to acquire know lege, and  to com-
   municate it  to the non-commissioned
   officers and privates? whether the ad-
   jutant, quarter-master, and paymaster,
   are competent to the duties assigned
   to  them?  whether  the  regimental
   books are kept with accuracy and re-
   gularity, and  whether the non com-
   missioned officers perform their duty
  with promptitude and effect?
3d. Whether the  meat and bread  fur-
   nished by contract, are of good quali-
   ty, and whether  these and other arti-
  cles, composing the ration,  are regu-
   larly issued?
4th. Whether  the forage be good, and
   of sufficient quantity? 
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  5th. Whether the hospital supplies and
    regulations be sufficient, and regularly
    dispensed in  the  one case, and ob
    served in the other?
  6th. Whether there  has been  any ir-
    regularity in the proceedings of courts
    martial, or in the execution of senten-
    ces pronounced by them? and
  7th Whether the quantity of ammuni-
    tion in store is sufficient, and well se-
    cured, and  whether the arms and
    equipments are in proper order?
  On each of these heads there will be  a
special report, and in  what may be said
on the second, all  possible frankness is ex
 Cected.  One motive the more to this, will
 e found in the solemn declaration of the
government,  that  while it shall  be its in-
variable practice to distinguish  and to re-
ward merit  of every  description and  in
every grade, all  pretensions not having
that  foundation,  however propped and
patronised by names,  will be utterly dis-
regarded.
   ttUARTER MASTER  GENERAL'S  DE-
              PARTMENT.
  It shall be the  duty of this department
to provide— 
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   1. For the  quartering and transporting
 of troops.
   2. J or transporting all military stores,
 camp equipage, and artillery.
   3. For opening  and  repairing roads,
 and constructing and  repairing  bridges,
 which may be necessary to the movement
 of the army, or of any detachment thereof.
   4. It shall be the further duty of this de-
 partment to receive from  the departments
 of purchase and of ordnance, all clothing,
 camp  equipage,  arms, ammunition, and
 ordnance;  to  transport  the  same to  the
 place of destination, and there to make
 distr. button thereof, agreeably to the direc-
 tion given  to  the articles  by the commis-
 sary general of purchases, and to the or-
 ders of the general commanding  the dis-
 trict to which  they are destined.
   Quarter masters  in the intermediate dis-
 tricts,  between the places of receipt and
 delivery will  be  held responsible for the
 safe transportation  of all articles  through
 their respective districts.
   Articles for conveyance by this depart-
 ment, shall be transported in bulk as much
 as possible, und with  each  quantity  of
 store* ronvw^d, the quarter master at  the
.post from which it  is sent shall furnish a 
189
conductor who  shall have charge  of it,
and for whose conduct, in the safe keeping
and  delivery  thereof,  the quartermaster
shall be responsible.
  5.  It shall be the duty of the department
to provide all forage and  fuel for the use
of the troops, and have the same transport-
ed and issued agreeably to the regulations
which follow:
  6.  To provide good and sufficient store
houses, for provisions deposited under con-
tract between individuals and the govern-
ment, and to appoint store  keepers (for
the custody of the said provisions, or  other
articles, the property of the public, which
may be placed there) who shall give secu-
rity  for their  safe keeping and delivery,
under the orders of the commanding gene-
ral of the district, or of the quartermaster
general; and to find means of transporting
the same, when so required by the engage-
ments of the government.
  7.  To make returns, half yearly, to the
secretary of wrar,  of all horses and  draft
oxen, or horses and oxen on hire, in pub-
lic service, showing their number, employ-
ment, and condition; and  a similar return
of all other  articles, the  property of the 
190
public, of which the department may  be
possessed.
  8. To make and  transmit to the  secre-
tary of war, monthly summary statements
of the  accounts of the  department, and
quarterly  accounts  thereof, agreeably to
the forms  which shall be prescribed  by
the treasury department.
  9. All money drawn for the use  of the
department, within  any military district,
shall be drawn and accounted for by the
senior officer  of  the department within
such district.
  No  purchases, on public account, will
be  made  by the quarter master's depart-
ment, but of the following articles:
  1st.  Of forage.
  2d.  Of fuel.
  3d   Straw for soldiers' bedding.
  4th. Articles of stationery for regimen-
tal and garrison service.
  5th. Dragoon and artillery horses; and
horses, oxen, waggons, and carts for the
transportation  of  baggage; boats for the
same; and,
   6th. Boards, planks  nails,  and  other
materials,  for  constructing and  repairing
barracks, hospitals, and bridges.
   In all eases in which gun carriages and 
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artillery waggons may want repair in the
field, the senior officer of artillery is to see
the necessary repairs done, and for the ex-
pense of these, will make his draft on the
quartermaster general's department.
  When any building occupied by troops
as a barrack shall have been left by them
in a filthy state, or  shall have suffered in-
jury  by them, the  quartermaster  of the
post or  of the party succeeding to them,
shall,  in the one case, have the quarters
cleansed, and  in the other repaired;  and
the expense  of so doing shall be deducted
from the pay of the officers  commanding
the party which immediately  preceded  in
the occupation of the buildings so cleansed
and repaired.

Regidations which shall  govern the al-
  lowance of quarters,  of forage,  of
  fuel, of straw for bedding, of station-
  ery, and  of the transportation of the
  bdggage of officers, ivhen ordered  on
  distant commands.

            1. Of Quarters.

  To the senior officer at a post, if under
the rank of field officer, one room and a
 kitchen. 
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  For  all other  commissioned  officers..
one room to every two  officers;  and to
each mess  of six  or  more officers,  one
kitchen.
  The eldest officer to have the choice of
quarters.

              2. Of Fuel

  The allowance of fuel, from the last day
of April, to the first day of November of
each year, shall be at the  rate of one cord
of wood  per month for each  kitchen (or
room occupied for cooking.)
  At  all posts, garrisons or cantonments
within the  states  of  New  Hampshire,
Massachusetts  Rhode Island,  Vermont,
Connecticut,  New  York,  New  Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware  Maryland  and
Ohio, one cord and half of a cord of wood
per month from the first  day of October,
to the first day of May of each year, for
each room and kitchen occupied agreeably
to the preceding regulations; and at all
other posts, garrisons, or cantonments, du-
ring the  same period, one cord of wood
per month for each kitchen or other room
occupied  as aforesaid. 
193
  Each commanding or  senior officer at
any  separate post, whatever may be his
rank, will  be entitled to fuel for one kit-
chen.
  The allowance of wood for the quarters
of the sick  will  be regulated by  the com-
manding ofii cr and surgeon.
  No compensation in money to be  made
in lieu of allowances of fuel or of quarters;
and no fuel to be  drawn  but  within the
month for which it is due.
  No fuel furnished for the use of a garri-
son, post, camp, or cantonment, shall be
removed  therefrom, but by the quarter-
master attached thereto;  and any overplus
of fuel beyond  what  has  been  used, or
may be necessary  for use, at  such  post,
shall revert  to the United States.
  Coal may be issued, in proportion to
the cost of wood, in lieu thereof.
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Table of quarters and fuel allowed to officers and non
  commissioned  officers  and pri-atet  of the army,
  when in  garitson or  in cantonment,  ugieeubly lo
  regulation >.
Quarters.
Monthly allowance of
  wood to officers.
From April
30 to Nov. 1
To a major general, three
  rooms and a kitchen
To a brigadier general, the
  adjutant  and  inspector
  general,   quartermaster
  general,  commissary ge-
  neral of ordnance,  and
  physician and surgeon
  general, each two rooms
  and a kitchen   -   -  -
To each adjutant general,
  inspector geneial, quar-
  tet master general,  and
  field officer of  a regi-
 ■ ment,  to the assistant
   commissary general of
   ordnance, and to  each
   deputy qua! te  master ge-
   neral,  one room  and ,«
   kitchen......
To each assistant adjutant
   general, assistant inspec
   tor geneial, topog aphi-
   cal engineer, major pf
Cords
From Nov. 1
to April 30.

   Cords.
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  brigade  or brigade in-
  spector, deputy paymas-
  ter  gene-al,  captain of
  the line, judge advocate,
  hospital surgeon,   regi-
  mental  surgeon,  chap-
  lain,  assistant  deputy
  quartei master  general,
  two  hospital, and  two
  re.'.imenUl    surgeons'
  mates, one room -  -  -
To the senior officer  at a
  post, ii under the rank
  of field officer, one room
  and a kitchen  -  -  -  -
For all other commission-
  ed office.?, one 'oom to
  every two officers   -  -
To each  mess of six or
  more officers, one kitch-
  en    ------
At pots at which there is
  a number of oflicers less
  than six, fuel  for  a
  kitchen shall be allowed.
To each uon-commissioned
  ofl'fce ,  musician, or pri-
  vate, 1-12 of a cord.
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              3.  Of Forage.
   To all horses  in actual  service,  there
shall be allowed 14 pounds of hay and 12
quarts  of oats,  or  in  lieu  of oats  eight
quarts  of corn, per diem. 
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  Officers will be allowed to draw forage
in kind, when on  actual service in  the
field,  where their duties  require them  to
be mounted, for the number of horses they
actually keep in service, not exceeding the
following rates:
  Major generals, seven.
  Brigadier genera's, five.
  Colonels of artillery and infantry, four.
  Lieutenant colonels  and  majors  three;
and
  All other officers entitled by  law  to re-
ceive  money in lieu of forage, when  the
same shall  be drawn in kind, two each.

             4.  Of Straw.

  One truss of straw, weighing 36 pounds,
is allowed for every two men.
  At the expiration  of  16 days, each truss
is to be refreshed with  8  pounds.   At the
expiration of 32 days the whole  straw is
to be removed, and a fresh bedding of one
truss to be  furnished; and so on every suc-
ceed, ng oeriod of 16 and 32 days.
   The same quantity of  straw  is allowed
for servants, or batmen not soldiers, or  for
washerwomen, in the proportion„of one
woman to  every seventeen men. 
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  The straw is to be changed for the sick
in hospital as often as may be deemed  ne-
cessary by the surgeon, or (in his absence)
by the mate.
  Requisitions for fuel or straw must state
the  number and  rank of the officers,  the
number of non commissioned officers and
privates, servants, batmen, and washerwo-
men, for whom it may be demanded, and
certified by the commandant of the regi-
ment, garrison, or recruiting rendezvous.
  No fuel or straw shall be drawn for of-
ficers or  for soldiers, whilst on furlough;
nor any allowance made to them for  th«
same.

         5. Of Transportation.

  To each company or detachment of 100
men, shall be allowed one four-horse wag-
gon and  team,  or 2  two-horse waggon*
and teams, for the conveyance of baggage,
and camp equipage, consisting of one com-
mon tent, one iron kettle, and two tin pans,
for every six men.
   When  officers are ordered on  distant
commands,  the following rates  are to
govern in the allowance made to them for 
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the transportation of their baggage, at two
dollars per  100 pounds per 100 miles.
To a Major general,	1,250 lbs.
Brigadier general	1,000
Colonel,	750
Lieutenant colonel,	600
Major, -	500
Hospital surgeon,	750
Captain,	400
Surgeon, -	400
Subaltern,	300
Surgeon's mate,	300
Cadet, -	200
   The most direct post route  will deter-
mine the distance, for the amount of trans-
portation, whether  performed by land  or
water.
   To  every officer ordered on  general
courts  martial, temporary commands,  or
on other duties, on the sea board, or in the
Atlantic states, there will be allowed, if he
so elect, in lieu of the transportation of his
baggage,  his  stage  hire:  no delay being
admitted  on  the road.   Receipts from the
stage offices,  or certificates on  honor,  of
the performance  of the duty, will be re»
quired; 
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  No allowance for transportation of bag-
gage  to  officers  fulfilling  the first order
after appointment.
                       November 9, 1812.

  Officers, prisoners of war, are allowed
for  transportation  of baggage,  from the
places  where  they are  paroled, to  their
respective homes,  unless transportation is
provided  by the  enemy, or the govern-
ment.
                           May 2, 1811.

  No allowance of extra pay w ill be made
to officers attending courts martial, either
as members or witnesses,  when  the court
shall be held at the garrison, post or can-
tonment, to which the officer belongs, or
at which he may be on furlough.

           6.  Of  Stationery.

  To a  major general, or other officer
commanding a district, so much stationery
as may be necessary for the discharge of
his  public duties.
  To every other general officer 24 quires
of paper per annum.
  To every officer commanding a separate
post or garrison, of not less than two, nor 
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more than five companies, 12 quires per
annum, and one blank book of 3 quires.
  To every officer commanding a separate
post or garrison of not more than ten com-
panies, 18 quires  per  annum,  and one
blank book of 3 quires.
  To a colonel or other officer command-
ing a regiment, for the use of himself and
regimental staff, 18 quires per annum, and
a blank book of 3 quires.
  To a major six quires of paper and one
blank book per annum,
  For the use of every company, whether
in garrison or otherwise, 12 quires per
annum, and a blank book of 2 quires.
  For the use of every  other commission-
ed officer in the army of the United States,
2 quires per annum.
  For the use of every officer and garrison,
a proportion  of  other  stationery, at the
rate of fifty quills,  as  many wafers, and a
paper of ink powder to each six quires.

          Annual Estimates.

  It shall he the duty of this department,
b) make out and transmit  to the war de-
partment, on or before the first day of De-
cember in each year, annual estimates of 
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the forage, fuel, straw for bedding, articles
of stationery, dragoon and artillery horses,
oxen, waggons,  and carts for transporta-
tion of baggage, &c. and of all other arti-
cles the furnishing of which appertains to
the said department.
                            July 9, 1813.
   In  addition  to  the provision made for
repairs  of buildings occupied  as barrack*
and quarters, it  is ordered,  that  where
private  lands and  buildings are occupied
by the troops of the United  States, a rea-
sonable compensation shall be made to the
proprietor  In the  quartermaster of  the
district  or post: and when the  rate of com-
pensation cannot  be satisfactorily agreed
on, discreet and disinterested persons shall
be appointed,  by  the  quartermaster and
proprietor, to appraise the rent, which will
be settled  by the  quartermaster, and the
damage repaired as before provided.
   " Every officer of the army, whose duty*
requires him to  be  on  horseback in time
of action, and whose horse shall  be  killed
in hattle, shall be  allowed a  sum not ex-
ceeding two hundred  dollars, on making
satisfactory proof of the loss and value of
the horse so killed; the  proof required shall
be by affidavit of  the quartermaster of the 
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corps to which the owner may belong, or
of two  other credible witnesses."*
  T!»e  ou..-termaster's department  will
ad;". L and -ettlc all claims conformably to
the  above provisions.
                         Awrift 25, 1812.
  Generals  commanding  separate armies
are  allowed  double rations.  Commanding
officers of separate posts double rations, at
the  d.scretion of the President.
                            May 2, 1814.
  Oilicers of the army are entitled to pri-
vate waiters agreeably to grade as follows:
  Major general    -     -    - four.
  Brigadier general    -    -   three.
  Colonel     .... two.
  Physician and surgeon general two.
  Lieutenant colonel, major, and
     hospital surgeon,     -    - one each.
  All officers having the rank of
     captain, including the com-
     missioned  officers of  the
     medical staff, and all other
     officers  on  separate  com-
     mand     -    -     -     . one each.
  All the commissioned oflicers
     of a company serving with
     the company  -     -     - three
          * Act of 12 May, 1796. 
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  No waiters will be employed in the ser*
vice of the United States, except as above
provided, for which the officers empfi \ mg
them will receive compen-ation,com in a-
bly to the 10th section ot the act of March
30, 1814.

       ORDNANCE  DEPARTMENT.

                           May 1, 1813,

          1. Of Laboratories.

  There shall be three principal  laborato-
ries in the United States, one in the neigh-
borhood of    one in the  neighborhood
of      and one near
  At each of these  laboratories,  the head
of the department will cause to be bought
ten acres of land, and have thereon erected
work-shops competent to the accommoda-
tion  of forty workmen, and barracks for
the further  accommodation of the  same,
with  the necessary magazines and store-
houses.
  The workmen at each of the  said e labo-
ratories, shall  be engaged  for  a term of
service not less than five years, and  at the
rates prescribed by law; and at each, there 
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ahall be one master wheelwright and car-
riage maker, and one master blacksmith,
the whole to be under the direction of the
commissary general, or of some one of his
olhcers.  It is,  however, understood, that
if  workmen cannot be engaged lor a term
as long as five years, ihe commis.suiy gene-
ral may engage them  ;ur a shorter  period.
And he is also  authorised to employ wo-
men and children at  low wage-, in all
work which can be as well performed by
them, as by men;  and accounts regularly
presented and certified by him, or  by the
senior  officer of ordnance who shall be
present, of the  amount of all  wages for
work done under this regulation, shall be
paid by the paymaster of the  district or
his assistant.
   At these workshops, shall be made, all
gun carriages, ammunition  waggons, tra-
velling forges, and every other apparatus
for the artillery, and shall be prepared all
kinds of ammunitidn  for garrison and field
service.     v •,

     2. Inspection of Powder, $-c.

   It will be the duty of the  commissary
general of  ordnance, to  call  upon  the 
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commissary general of purchases, for the
names and places of residence of all per-
sons engaged in making powder, cannon,
cannon  shot,  or  other  ordnance  stores,
under contract with the United States, and
on  notice of the  time  of delivery of such
articles, he will cause the same to be duly
proved  and inspected.   Until thus pre-
viously inspected and proved, no ordnance,
cannon balls, shells, shot, or powder, shall
be  received or   paid  for,  by  anv public
agent of the United States.

     3. Distribution of Ordnance.

  The orders of general oflicers for the
supply of ordnance, ammunition, carriages,
&c. shall go no farther than  to  direct the
number and calibre of the guns, the quan-
tity  and  kinds of ammunition,  necessary
for the service, and to  command the pre-
paration and delivery of these, and  other
enumerated articles, to some  officer  char-
ged  with its conveyance to the camp or
garrison of the general  requiring them.
  The artillery will be distributed for field
service into divisions or half divisions.
  A division of artillery will consist of six
pieces of ordnance, viz. four cannon of the
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same calibre,  and two howitzers, or six
cannon of not more than two calibres.
  A half division  of artillery will consist
of two pieces of cannon of the same cali-
bre, and  one howitzer, or of three pieces
of cannon of the same calibre.
  To each pair of three pounders, will be
allotted one ammunition waggon, or cais-
son.
  To each six pounder, one ammunition
waggon, or caisson.
  To  each  howitzer,  two ammunition
waggons, or caissons.
  To each gun of larger calibre  than a six
pounder, destined to act with the army  in
the field, two, or at most, three ammuni-
tion waggons, or caissons.
  To each division of artillery will be al-
lotted three waggons, provided  with as-
sorted and spare articles of equipment, am-
munition, harness, intrenching and  artifi-
cers' tools, &c.
   To each half  division will be allotted
one waggon, with assorted  and spare ar-
ticles and tools, as above.
   To each division of flying artillery and
every two divisions of foot artillery w ill be
allotted one travelling forge. 
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   The proportion of overplus small arms,
 for the infantry, may be one fourth of the
. number of effective troops in the field: these
 shall  be placed  in reserve, at some safe
 and convenient situation, near the army.
   The proportion of musket cartridges for
 the infantry, shall consist of thirty rounds
 per man, accompanying the troops in am-
 munition  waggons, and such additional
 quantities as may be judged requisite, shall
 be placed in reserve, as provided for small
 arms in the preceding paragraph.
   Waggons will be provided with mining
 and laboratory tools and utensils, together
 with  additional  quantities  of intrenching
 and artificers' tools, whenever the nature
 of the service may render it necessary.

   4. Preservation  and safe keeping of
          Ordnance Stores, <yc.

   It  will be the duty  of the commissary
 general of ordnance to take measures for
 the completion, reparation, and preserva-
 tion of all ordnance, ammunition,  artillery
 carriages, and machines, in the respective
 fortresses, magazines, and arsenals.
                            May 2, 1814.
   The senior officer of any detachment of
 the corps of artillery, acting as such, whe- 
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ther in garrison or in the field, will select
and appoint one of the second lieutenants
of each company to serve as conductor of
artilten/ to said  company, who shall  be
furnished  with a certificate  accordingly,
and whose duty it shall be,  to receipt and
account for all ammunition, implements,
and cannon, furnished by the ordnance de-
partment for said company.
  5.  Returns of Ordnance Stores, $c.
   The  senior  officer of artillery of every
division or detachment of  the army, and
of every garrison and post,  and all keepers
of magazines  and arsenals, or other per-
sons having charge of military stores, shall
make returns quarterly to the commissary
general of ordnance,  agreeably  to such
forms as may  be furnished  by him.
   The  military stores above  referred  to
are;
   Fire  arms  of every description, with
their equipments  and accoutrements.
   Ammunition, whether fixed or loose.
   Laboratory stores and utensils.
   Artificers1 tools; and
   All  artillery  carriages   and machines:
not to include camp equipage or barrack
furniture. 
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  Such returns shall be made by the com-
missary general  as are required by law;
and
         6.  Annual Estimates.

  It shall be the duty of the commissary
general of ordnance, to make out and ren-
der to the war  department, yearly esti-
mates  of the powder, ordnance,  cannon
balls,  shells, and shot, timber, and other
materials for gun carriages and ammuni-
tion waggons, laboratory utensils, artifi-
cers' tools, &c. which shall be requisite for
the service of the public.

 ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS FOR THE
       ORDNANCE  DEPARTMENT.

Duties of Officers of the Ordnance De-
  partment attached to armies operating
  in the field.
                         Auguit 20, 1814.
  An officer of the ordnance department
who may  be attached to  an army in  the
field,  shall be stationed at  and  have  the
principal charge and diir.ction of the main
depot  of ordnance and ordnance stores,
for the supply of such  army.  Orders and
requisitions  for ordnance and  ordnanee
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stores, shall regularly  be transmitted to
him through the commanding geneial, or
the senior officer ot  artillery acting with
such army:  with the latter/ the otlicer of
the ordnance department having charge of
the depot, will constantly correspond, so
as to ascertain tiie  actual  and probable
wants of tiie army,  relative to his depart-
ment, and be prepared to furnish all  sup-
plies at the shortest notice.   He will  also
correspond  with  the commissary general
of ordnance, and with the officers  of his
department at the nearest arsenals and la-
boratories, so as to anticipate, if possible,
and provide for all the wants of the army
in his department.  He will, at the  depot,
cause the gun carriages to be put in order
and repaired, the cannon to be remounted,
the ammunition to be  provided and  pre-
pared, the ammunition waggons to  be re-
plenished, the damaged arms and accoutre-
ments to be  taken care  of, and undergo the
necessary repairs. For these purposes, be
is not only to be furnished with all  proper
aid by the commanding general, but is to
employ any extra aid of artificers, armour-
ers and labourers which the service  may
require. 
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  The  general commanding will,  from
lime to time, communicate to him such in-
structions and  information  as  may be
deemed proper, and will indicate the loca-
tions and transfers of the depots, which
are on no account to  be changed except
by his orders, or from absolute  necessity.

   Duties of the Conductors of Stores.

  The conductors of stores attached to the
divisions or  companies of artillery, aided
when necessary by a trusty  non-commis-
sioned  officer to  each  division, will have
charge of and be accountable for the ord-
nance  and  ordnance  stores attached  to
their respective divisions,  in camps, on
marches,  and in detached  posts.    The
drivers, harness, and horses of the artille-
ry, will  also  be  under their particular
charge.
  Besides the ordnance,  ammunition, and
stores, appropriated to each division of ar-
tillery, the senior ofiicer  of that corps, dn
command, with the  army, will  apportion
to the  respective  divisions,  according to
his judgment, the spare arms, ammunition,
&c. destined for the infantry; also the arti-
ficers', intrenching, and miners' tools: the 
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laboratory stores and utensils;  the  spare
gun carriages, equipments, ike.  At the
per- d-s ot such distributions, inventories
ought  to  be  taken by  the  conductors of
stores of every thing attached to their re-
spective divisions.   Suitable books are to
be furnished by the quartermaster general
to the conductors of stores, to enable them
to keep their accounts.
  The conductors  of stores will issue am-
munition  and  stores of  expenditure for
their  respective divisions on the orders,
written or verbal, of  the commanding of-
ficers of  the  respective divisions, or on
their own responsibility.  No receipts shall
be exacted on such issues; but the quanti-
ties and kinds of articles delivered, shall be
entered in the books of  accounts of the
conductors of  stores, together  with  the
name of  the  officer  ordering  the same.
Ammunition and stores  are  not  to be de-
livered by the conductor of one  division
for the use of another, except by the  order
of a general officer, or of  a  field officer of
artillery.   In such eases, besides the pro-
per entries in  the  books,  receipts for the
articles shall be passed.
  The conductors  of stores will receipt to
the  officers of the ordnance department for 
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all ordnance, ordnance  stores, arms,  ac-
coutrements,  ammunition,  &e.  received
from the arsenals and depots, and keep
correct  accounts of their  expenditure.
Quarterly abstracts  of these accounts  are
to be transmitted to  the office of the. com-
missary general of ordnance, exhibiting
the  species of articles received, those re-
maining on hand, and those expended or
delivered over.
  The conductors of stores will, from time
to time, as opportunities may offer, and
under the  direction  of the senior officer of
artillery in command, disencumber the di-
visions of the empty ammunition waggons,
carriages needing repairs, damaged arms,
&c. and in general, of all  ordnance and
ordnance  stores which  may  be  deemed
unserviceable or superfluous; which are to
lie sent either to the depot or  an adjacent
arsenal, and delivered to  an officer of the
ordnance department, who will receipt for
the same.
  The conductors of stores will  keep the
senior officer of the corps of artillery, in
command, acquainted with the state of the
ordnance and stores of their respective di-
visions, in order that  prompt measure* 
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may be taken to obtain from the depot or
neighboring arsenals the requisite supplies.
   Musket cartridges and flints for  the use
of the infantry, shall be issued by the con-
ductors of stores, on the orders of the com-
manding officer, or of any general officer;
if to regiments, by the requisitions of the
colonels or other field oflicers command-
ing them; if  to detachments, by the  requi-
sitions of their commanding officers; if to
posts  or  garrisons, by the requisitions of
such persons  as may be designated  by the
orders.
   Intrenching and  artificers' tools, &c.
shall  be  issued by the requisitions  of the
officers respectively commanding the work-
ing parties, to whom tickets shall  be fur-
nished, containing  lists of the tools deliver-
ed; the same tickets to be handed  to the
relieving officers, and finally, to be return-
ed with the tools on the  discharge  of the
working parties;   in  case of loss  or da-
mage beyond ordinary wear and  tear, it
shall  be the  duty of the conductors of
stores to report to the commanding officer,
in order that  the loss or damage may be
made good. 
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 Regulations relative to the distribution
   of small arms and accoutrements, and
   the mode in  which they are to be ac-
   counted for.

   Small  arms and accoutrements  shall
 regularly  be issued from the arsenals and
 depots to the infantry in the regular ser-
 vice of the  United States, on the requisi-
 tions of the  colonels, or other field officers
 actually commanding the regiments, which
 requisitions shall  not exceed the  effective
 strength of the regiments respectively. The
 receipts of the colonels, &c. shall be given
 for the arms, &c. when delivered to an of-
 ficer of the  regiment appointed by him to
 receive them; which receipts shall be trans-
 mitted to the office of the commissary ge-
 neral of ordnance, who shall cause an ac-
 count to be opened with each regiment for
 arms, &c. and the commanding officer of
 the regiment shall be held strictly account-
 able, during his command, for the arms,
 &c.  charged to the regiment;  and  shall
 transmit quarterly returns to the office of
the commissary "general of ordnance, by
which  he shall strictly  account  for  the
 arms  delivered  to  the regiment:  failing
whereof, his name shall be reported to the 
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superintendant general of military supplies
for  further enquiry.  Duplicates ol  such
quarterly returns shall regularly be entered
in the regimental book, and  a  particular
inspection and  examination be  made  in
the  event of a change ot command.
  The colonels shall distribute to the cap-
tains or  subalterns commanding  the com-
panies, the arms, &.c. received for the use
of the regiment, taking their receipts for
the  same; and  shall  particularly see that
the  arms, &.c. of each company  be strictly
accounted for afterwards in the  inspection
returns.
  The captain  or subaltern commanding
a company, shall  distribute  to  the  non-
commissioned  officers   and privates  the
arms received for the  company, the  dis-
tribution must be witnessed by a  non com-
missioned officer of the company, and be
recorded in the company book as  conclu-
sive evidence to hold the soldiers account-
able for the arms, &c. so distributed.
  Surplus arms may  be returned,  if in
good order, to the conductors   of stores,
who shall grant receipts to the colonels for
the  same; which receipts being transmitted
to the office of  the commissary general of
ordnance by the colonels, the  regiment* 
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 shall respectively have credit for the arms
 bo returned.
   In ease of arms, &c.  being lost or da-
 maged  by unavoidable accidents, a certifi-
 cate on honor, under the  hand of a com-
 missioned oflicer,  shall be furnished to the
 conductor of stores, distinguishing those
 totally lost, from such as  may  be merely
 damaged; the latter being delivered up to
 the conductor of stores, who, besides trans-
 mitting  such certificate to  the office  of  the
 commissary general of ordnance, shall be
 bound to make further enquiry and  report
 the circumstances, if he  have reason  to
 distrust  the  accuracy  of the  certificate.
 The  regiments  shall respectively  have
 credit on the books of the commissary ge-
 neral of ordnance  for all arms, &c. lost or
 damaged by unavoidable accidents.
  Aims damaged or lost by negligence or
 misconduct, shall have their value exacted
 from the delinquent;  for which the colonel
 or field officer commanding the regiment
 shall be  responsible.
  He shall require the captain or subal-
 tern commanding  a company,  to ci.aree
io the company book to  the soldiers «i 
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fault, the amount of all arms, &c. so lost
or damaged, noting the  same amount on
the pu\ roli^  to  be deducted iron,  their
nay.  The damaged arms  to  be  returned
to the  conductor? ol  stores, with minutes
of the  amount clanged tor the same, spe-
ed \ ing toe lame ot the individual to w bom
charged, mgctner with that ot the compa-
ny .Liid regiment; and  the conductors of
stoics shall transmit quarterly abstracts of
such charges to the office ot the commis-
sary general ot  01 dnance.
   For arms,  &.c. thus  accounted for, as
charged to individuals,  the conductors of
stores  shall grant receipts to the colonels
of the regiments, distinguishing arms total-
ly lost, irom such as may  be merely da-
maged; which  receipts  being transmitted
to the oftice  of  the commissary  general of
ordnance, the regiments shall have  credit
for such arms.
   Small arms and accoutrements for the
use of the corps of artillery shall be issued
to  the field oflicers of that corps   com-
manding  battalions, in  the same mode,
and subject to the same  regulations for the
respective battalions, as are provided above
for the regiments of infantry. 
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  The component parts of the musket and'
accoutrements are to be valued as follows,
viz.
            Stand of Arms.
The Bayonet,  -     -     -     -  $ 1 25
    Ramrod,    ....    75
    Lock,    -     ,     -     -     3 25
    Stock,      -    -     -    -   1 ?5
    Barrel,    -     -     -     -     4 00
    Mounting,  -    -     -    -   2 00
Stand of arms complete, total    $ 13 00

            Accoutrements.
The Cartouch box and f         }
    belt, bavonet scab- \,£s a ,   ' > 2 50
    bard and belt,     £** whole j
    Gun sling,     -     -     -     -  15
    Brush and pricker,     -          6
    Ball screw,         -     -     -  25
    Screw driver,                   25

      PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.

  1st.  The  commissary general of this
department and his deputies will  purchase
upon the orders and estimates of the war
department, all ordnanee, ordnance stores,
laboratory utensils, artificers' tools, artillery 
2-20
Carriages, ammunition waggons, timber,
and ot.ier materials for making and repair-
ing uuse;  artillery  harness, ammunition,
snunl  arms, accoutrements,  and  equip-
ments, clothing, dragoon saddles  and bri-
dle-)-, tents, tent poles, camp kettles, mess
pans,  bed  sacks,   medicines,  surgical
instruments, hospital  stores, and  all other
articles required for the public service of
the army of the United  States, excepting
only such as are directed to be purchased
by the quartermaster general's department.
  2d.  The articles so purchased as afore
said,  shall  (such  as may  require  it) be
carefully packed, and all be delivered over
by the commissary  general or by his de-
puties,  to  an officer  of the quartermaster
general's department, for transportation to
the places of their destination aid use; and
all  parcels  so  packed,  shall be legibly
marked  with the name of the   place or
places whither they are to be sent, and that
of the detachment or corps for which they
are intended, accompanied by an invoice
of the articles  contained in the said par-
cels.
  3d  The commissary general of purcha-
se , and his deputies, shall severally make
and transmit monthly summary statements, 
221
to the secretary of war, and quarterly ac-
counts of the  purchases  and deliveries,
made  by them,  respectively, to the ac-
countant of the  war department,  with the
necessary vouchers, and agreeably to the
forms  which  shall be prescribed by the
treasury department.
  Deputy purchasing  commissaries  shall
not, unless specially ordered  by  the  com-
missary general or by the war department,
make any issues  of clothing  to regiments
or parts of regiments.
  The clothing department is subject only
to the  orders of the war department and
the commissary general of purchases.  Re-
quisitions by commanding officers of regi-
ments and corps  not being considered in
, the nature of orders, are  not affected by
these regulations.

        Returns of Clothing, %c.

  To  enable the war department to fur-
 nish the orders and estimates as provided
 by  the foregoing regulation, each regimen-
 tal  quartermaster shall make and transmit,
 on  or before the  1st day of December in
 each year,  an estimate countersigned by
 the commanding officer of the regiment, of
                  T  2 
222
all  such clothing,  arms, accoutrements,
equipments, and camp equipage, as may
be necessary for the supply of the regiment
for the ensuing year; with a return of the
articles on  hand, and a report of the con-
dition in which they are.
                           July 9, 1813.
  In the returns for clothing one column
shall represent what is due to the detach-
ment  or regiment, one  what is actually
wanted, and a third, the articles, if any,
on hand and in the curtody of some offi-
cer of the detachment or  regiment.
  These returns  shall be signed by the
regimental quartermaster, or officer doing
that duty, and countersigned by the officer
commanding regiments or corps.
  Upon returns thus made, the commissa-
ry of issues will furnish 5uch articles, and
in  such proportions, as   the state  of the
public stores will permit.
  No  return  will be  made but for tho
clothing of men actually present.

                           May 2,  1811.
  Clothing sent to the army, or to any di-
vision  thereof, shall he  consigned to the
nearest issuing commissary of  clothing,
and to no other person. 
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  Commanding officers  of regiments, (o£
of parts of regiments on  detached service,)
shall alone have authority to  make  requi-
sitions and  to give receipts  for clothing,
and all such requisitions  shall be made on
the  nearest issuing commissary of cloth-
ing.
  Every  requisition for clothing shall be
made agreeably to the form annexed here-
to,* and if any oflicer shall make a false
return of the number of  men actually pre-
sent, or of the quantity of clothing due to
them, or required by them, as an extra al-
lowance,  he  shall, on  proof thereof, be
dismissed  the service.
  All extra clothing  shall be  charged to
the  soldiers  receiving  it, and the amount
thereof  shall  be   deducted  from  their
monthly pay, not exceeding  half the said
pay per month.  Account6; of these  char-
gcs  and deductions  shall  be regularly kept
in tV conmany books, and the amount
due from each shall be stated to  th^ pay-
master (previous to each payment.') whose
duty  it  shall  be to make the deductions
accordingly.

  * Tiie requisition must men1 ion the men ?e»-vin<r,
tiie articles  of clothing received and doe, and tV-
extra ai tides required. 
224
  Clerks to the several companies will be
appointed,  and  company  books   kept,
sh weii every  thing received by the sol-
dier, and charging him  therewith.   If on
the next  or any iuture  inspection it be
found that  any  article of his clothing, or of
his arms, has been lost or sold, the  article
is to be supplied and the price  deducted
from his wages.

DUTIES OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS
        AND THEIR ASSISTANTS.

   To nuke such surveys, and exhibit such
delineation oi  these, as the commanding
geneial shall direct; to  make plans of all
military positions (which  the  army  may
jDccuj >y '< and  of their respective vicinities,
indicating  the various roads, rivers,  creeks,
ravines, hills, woods and  villages, to be
found therein: to accompany all  reconnoi-
ter'ng parties, sent out to obtain  intelli-
gence of the movements of the enemy, or
of his positions,  &c.; to make sketches of
their route, accompanied  by written no-
tices of every thing worthy of observation,
ther. nn; to keep a journal of every day's
mos'emevt, when the army is in  march,
noticing the varieties of ground,  of build- 
225
ings,  of culture, and the distances and
state of the reads, between  given points,
throughout the march of the day; and last
ly, to exhibit the relative positions of the
contending armies on fields of battle, and
the dispositions made, whether for attack
or defence.

HOSPITAL  AND  MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

   It shall be the duty of the physician and
surgeon general to prescribe rules for the
government of the hospitals  of the army;
to see these enforced; to appoint stewards
and nurses; to call for and receive returns
of medicines, surgical instruments, and
hospital  stores; to authorise  and regulate
the supply  of regimental  medicine chests;
to make out genera!  half  yearly returns of
these, and of the sick (in hospitals) to the
war department, and yearly estimates of,
what may  be wanted for the supply of the
army.
   The apothecary general shall  assist the
physician and surgeon general in the  dis-
charge of the above  mentioned duties, and
shall receive and obey his orders in rela-
tion thereto. 
226
1.  DUTIES OP TIIE  APOTHECARY  GENE-
     RAL  AND  OF HIS  ASSISTANTS.

                            May 2, 18U.
  The apothecary general and his assist-
ants will  receive and take  charge of all
hospital stores,  medicines, surgical  instru-
ments, and dressings, bought by the com-
missary general of  purchases, or  by his
deputies, or by  any other  person under
the direction of the said commissary  or
deputies, and shall account to the superin-
tendant general of military supplies for all
expenditures of the same.   It shall be the
further duty of the apothecary general and
his as>istants to pay  (monthly) the  wages
of the stewards, ward-masters, and nurses
of the  hospital,  the  accounts being  duly
certified  by the senior  surgeon  present,
and settled quarterly.
  The apothecary general and his assist-
ants will compound and prepare all  officin-
als, and put up and  issue medicines, &c.
in chests, or otherwise, conformably to the
direction of the physician and surgeon ge-
neral, or on the estimates  and requisitions
of the senior surgeons of hospitals, and of
the regimental surgeons.  Returns are  to
be made to the apothecary general's office, 
227
quarterly, by the deputy apothecaries, sur*
geons, and mates,  or  any one  having
charge of instruments, medicine, hospital
stores, and hospital equipments of any de-
scription.
  The forms of these returns will be regu-
lated by the apothecary general, under the
direction of the superintendant general of
military supplies, to whom one copy of the
returns will be sent.

      2.  OF  HOSPITAL SURGEONS.

  The senior surgeon shall be ex  officio
the director of the medical staff in the ar-
my or district to  which  he is attached.
He shall reside at or near  head quarters,
countersign  all requisitions  of  regimental
surgeons or mates on the apothecary gene-
ral  or his assistants, inspect the hospitals
under  his  direction, correct abuses, and
report delinquencies.  He shall make quar-
terly reports to the physician and surgeon
general of the sick and wounded  in the
hospital to which  he is attached, and  of
the medicines, instruments, and hospital
stores, received, expended,  on hand, and
wanted, on the 1st of January, April, July,
and October, of each year.  He shall keep 
228
a diary of  the weather, together w ith an
account oi  the medical topography of the
country in winch he serves, and  shall re-
port to the commanding orlicer every cir-
cumstance  tending to  restore  or  preserve
the health of the troops.
  It shall be the duty of hospital surgeons,
or others acting in that capacity, to super-
intend every thing that relates to the hos-
pital, as to its construction, ils government,
and its police. They shall order the stew-
ard to furnish whatever may be necessary
or convenient for the sick.  They shall
visit the sick and wounded in the  hospital
every morning, and  in the evening require
from the resident mate a  report of all al-
terations that may have occurred since the
morning prescriptions.  They shall  pre-
scribe on a blotter for the instruction and
convenience of the mate.  They shall have
the police rules of the hospital printed or
written in a legible hand,  and hung  up in
each  ward, and shall assign  appropriate
wards to  the patients according  to  their
respective  diseases.   They shall  keep  a
register of all patients admitted into the
hospital, wherein  sliall be specified  the
name, rank, regiment, company, disease,
dates of admission, discharge,  desertion, 
229
6r death.  They shall also  keep a  case
book, in which shall be recorded the his-
tory of every important or interesting case
of disease.
   They  shall report monthly the general •
result or outlines of the case  book, as well
as an account of  medicines, instruments,
hospital stores, furniture, &c. received,  on
hand, and wauted.

    3. HOSPITAL  SURGEONS' MATES.

   It shall be the duty  of the  mates to  at-
tend at the hour appointed by the surgeon,
to visit the patients with him, and note  his
prescriptions.  Each  mate  shall keep a
case  book similar to  the one  prescribed
for the surgeon.  They shall attend to  the
administering the  prescriptions of the sur-
geon, dress all wounds and ulcers, enforce
the established discipline of the hospital,
and report to the proper  officers all delin-
quencies.
   One of the mates, at least, shall remain
constantly within call  of the  hospital. The
medicine and instruments shall be under
 the immediate care of the mates.
u 
230
    4.  OF THE HOSPITAL  STEWARD.

  It shall be the duty of the steward, un-
der the direction of the surgeon, to provide
for the hospital, to receive and take charge
of all  hospital stores, furniture,  utensils,
&c. to  keep an accurate account of all is-
sues, and specify not only for whom, but
by whom, ordered.   The  surgeon's  cer-
tificate shall be his voucher.  He shall be
responsible  to the apothecary general, or
his assistant, for the faithful  discharge of
his office.

       5. OF THE WARD MASTER.

  The ward master shall be under the di-
rection of the steward.  He shall receive
the  arms, accoutrements, and clothing of
every patient  admitted into the  hospital.
He shall see that  the clothes  are  immedi-
ately washed, numbered, and labelled with
the name, regiment, and  company of the
patient, and put away in a place provided
for that purpose.   If the  arms and accou-
trements are not brought with the patient,
the ward master shall so report.  He shall
be responsible for the cleanliness of the
patients and the wards, shall call the roll 
251
every morning and evening, and  report
all  absentees.  He shall be  particularly
careful in the proper construction  of the
close stools, and see that they have always
a proper quantity of water or charcoal in
them, and that they are cleansed at least
three times a day.  He shall see that the
beds and bed clothes  are properly aired
and exposed every fair day  to the sun,
that the straw in each bed-sack is changed
at least once in every month, and that each
patient is washed  and  his hair combed
every morning.  When  a patient has died,
or been discharged, he shall see that the
bed and bed clothes are properly cleaned,
and the straw burned, and that the  nurses
and attendants are kind and attentive to
the  sick and wounded.  All the attendants
shall be considered as under his immedi-
ate  direction, and he  shall be responsible
for  the faithful performance of the duties
assigned them.

      1.  REGIMENTAL  SURGEONS.

  The surgeon shall  be  considered  re-
sponsible for the order, regularity, and
cleanliness of the regimental hospital, or
infirmary, as well as  for the comfort and 
232
convenience of all other sick men confided
to his care.
   He shall send as few  patients as  possi-
ble to the general hospital, and these shall
be confined to the wounded,  and chronic
cases; excepting when the sick are order-
ed to be left behind on a march.  In that
event, all cases may be sent to the general
hospital, unless otherwise provided for  by
the director.  When a patient is to be sent
to the general hospital,  the surgeon shall
send with him  a descriptive  list, together
with a certificate containing the name,  re-
giment, and  company of the patient; the
symptoms  and  duration  of  his  disease,
with some general remarks on the mode
of treatment pursued.   He shall, likewise,
send with him  his clothes, arms, and  ac-
coutrements.  He shall keep a strict  re
©ord of all cases sent to  the general hos-
pital.
   When the troops  are  in permanent  en-
campments or cantonments, he shall pro-
vide some  suitable place for the reception
of the sick.  In this regimental infirmary,
the common camp  diseases,  such  as  in-
flammatory and typhus  fevers, diarrhoeas,
and dysenteries, shall  be attended. .  He 
233
shall be careful to have the infirmary well
ventilated, and shall not crowd his patients,
  He shall use every precaution  to pre-
vent the origin of contagion;  and should it
appear, he shall immediately report it to
the commanding officer, and make every
exertion to counteract it, by paying a strict
attention to the  personal cleanliness and
frequent changes of the linen and bedding
of the sick, &c. &c.
  The surgeon shall, with the consent of
the commanding officer of the regiment or
oorps,  select  a capable and careful non-
commissioned officer,  who  shall  act as
steward and ward master; and such num-
ber of men as may be  necessary to attend
upon the sick, who  are to be considered
as attached to the medical staff, and not to
be removed except for  misdemeanor.
  The surgeon shall  frequently inspect the
provisions furnished to the troops, and re-
port the same when unsound, to the com-
manding officer, as well as every thing in
diet, dress, or situation, which  can affect
the health of the troops.
  He shall require of the orderly sergeant
of each company, a  written  and daily re-
port of the sick.' After having examined
each case carefully,  he shall give wriuVa
                  u 2 
234
prescriptions for  such as  require  medi-
cines.
   He shall report all cases of feigned sick-
ne»  to the  commanding  officer  of the
companies to which they belong.
   He  shall examine each  case  reported,
at least once a  day, and all dangerous
ca-e? more frequently.
   He shall  attend at the commencement
of a march, and designate such men as
should  be  permitted to ride, or have their
knapsacks transported in the waggons.
   He shall be alw ays at  hand, when the
regiment or  corps moves, to afford his as-
sist nee in case of accidents.
   He shall attend all musters and inspec-
tions, and  report such men an are unfit for
service, assigning the cause  of their ina-
bility.
   He  shall  endeavor to have on hand a
sufficient supply of medicines, instruments,
dressings,  and hospital stores, and be al-
ways ready  to render services in case of
an engagement.
   He shall see that the mates  are attentive
to their duties, and endeavor to afford them
every opportunity  of improvement.
   He shall keep a daily journal and pre-
scription book, wherein should be recorded 
235
an account of all cases of sickness, the na-
ture of the complaints, and the means used
to effect a cure, together with the result.
  He shall make out a morning report  of
the sick  and convalescent, agreeably  to
form  No. 1, and  deliver it  to  the com-
mandant  of the  regiment or corps.  He
shall make out a monthly report agreeably
to form No.  2, which he shall forward  to
the medical  director of the district, or  to
the  senior   surgeon present.   He shall
make out a quarterly  return agreeably  to
form  No. 3, of medicines and instruments,
and  also a quarterly return agreeably  to
form  No. 4, of hospital stores, &c.

 2. OF REGIMENTAL SURGEONS* MATES.

   In the absence of the  surgeon, the mate
oldest in commission shall act as surgeon,
 WThen the surgeon  is present, it shall  be
the duty of the mate or mates to prepare
 his prescriptions, and see that they are re-
 gularly taken; to dress wrounds and ulcers;
to perform  the operation of blood  letting;
to assist the surgeon in preparing his daily,
 monthly, and quarterly returns;  to visit  all
 dangerous cases frequently, and report  all
 material  changes to the surgeon.   They 
236
shall have charge  of all medicines and
instruments, and  be  held  responsible to
the surgeon for their good condition. They
shall be attentive  to the order and clean-
liness of the regimental infirmary, and sec
that  the  patients are kept clean in  their
persons, linen, and bedding.
  No candidate will hereafter be appoint-
ed in the medical department of the army
who shall not have received  a diploma
from some respectable medical school or
college, without first passing the exami-
nation of an army medical board.
  Wlicnever a soldier is rendered incapa-
ble of performing military duty, by reason
of wounds or injuries received in the ser-
vice, while in the line of his duty, his  com-
manding officer shall certify the time and
manner of receiving such wound or disabi-
lity; and the senior surgeon of the hospital,
regiment, or corps, shall furnish such disa-
bled soldier with a certificate, on which
the proper discharge shall be made by the
inspector  general or officer  doing  thart
dutv. 
No. 1.
MORNING REPORT of the sick and convalescent of the
    of               commanded by
regiment
	Sick present.		Sick absent.	Total.	
Company.	111.	Convales-cent.			Remark*.
				-----	Aggregate;
,TX*
day of
481 ,.
A«- B» Surgeah.
to 
w
	2? S'	P3 <* 3 i s. ^ 3 nOrq ' &	
	O o 3 «5 ft)		
	H o		
	Killed in battle.		
	* 3	A 3	> a-1. re S"g-3 ° «?£ o v> "S. E. o "I
	3*		
	Dysentery.		
	Diarrhoea.		
	Wounded.		
	All other con-tingencies.		
| Sent to hospital.			
" " | Dead.			
| Joined regiment.			
| Remain.			
1 !		*	
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No. 3.
QUARTERLY RETURN of medicines and instruments at                 181 ,,
Articles.	On hand last return.			Received since last return.			Now on hand.			Wanted.			Remarks.
	No.	lbs.	oz.	No.	lbs.	oz.	No.	lbs.	oz.	No.	lbs.	oz.	
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A. B  Surgeon
 
                                No. 4

QUARTERLY RETURN of hospital stores and furniture at
181
Articles.	On hand last return.			Received since last return.			Now on hand.			Wanted.			Remarks*,
	lbs.	yds.	galls	lbs.	yds.	galls	lbs.	yds.	galls	lbs.	yds.	galls	
													
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A. B. Surgeon. 
No. 5.
MONTHLY REPORT of sick and wounded in general hospital at
    under the direction of
	Remaining last report.		Admitted into general hospital this month.							tts Q	c a) s '5b K S-V C '5	s '5 '5 S o OS	
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A. B. Hospital Surgeon. 
                                  No. 6.

QUARTERLY  REPORT from the director to the physician and surgeon general-.
Denomi-
 nation.
Remain.
last rep.
Taken ill during the
      quarter.


 Fevers.
Q
•a
oi
Remarks.
10
A. B. Director. 
1	Names.
	Hospital surgeon.
	Regimental surgeons.
	Garrison surgeons-
	Hosp. surg. mate..
	Reg. surg. mates.
	Gar. surg. mates.
	Stewards.
Wardmasters.	
	Matrons.
	Nurses.
>	Waiters.
P3	Where employed.
	Resigned.
	Discharged.
	Dead.
Remarks.
£?5 
	Date.
	Names.
	Regi-meat.
	o 3 »> 3
	No. of musket.
	Bayonet and belt.
	Knapsack.
	Canteen. i
	When deli-ve: ed, and to whom.
	re 3 ■-) K w
ws 
245
List of Medicines to be  purchased for
           the  use of the army.
Acetis cupri
       plumbi
Acidum concret citron
        muriatic
        nitric
        sulphuric
        benzoes
Aloes socota.
Amylum
Balsam, capaib.
Boras sodo
Carbonas ammonia
         calcis
         terri
         magnesia
         potassae
         zinc, inipur.
Cera alba
     flava
Conserv. rosarum
Cortex angustur
       aurantium
       cassiae
       cinchonce
       querci rubrii
       ulmi rubri
Extractum. con. maculat
           glycerrhizae
Flores anthem, nobil.
Folia sennae
     supul. commun.
Gum arabic
 Gum assa fcctid.
      ammoniac
      camphor
      gamboge
      guiac.
      kino
      myrrh
      opii
 Hydrargyria
 Lapis calominous
 Lytharge
 Manna
 Meloe vesicat
 Nitris argenti
      potasse
 Nuces Moschatae
 Oleum anisi
       cassiae
       savendulae
       menm. pipinit
       olivarum
       ricini
       succini
Oxyd. arsenic
      zinci
Oxy. raur hydrag.
     co;ms
Oxy. nitri. hydrag. rub.
Phosph. sodae
Pimento
Potassae
Pul» is antimon Jacob
x  2 
246
Pulvis cinchonse
      Colombo
      ipecachuan.
      jalap ii
      rad zingib
      rhei palm
      scillae maritim
      valerian
Radix cinchone
      Colombo
      gentian
      glyceirhis
      senekae
      scicent virg
Resinae flava
Sal amnion erud
Sapo venet
Semen sini
       -map
Spermaceti
Spt. amnen volat
    ather. nitros
    niti i dulc
Spt. tereVmthinaj
Soda
Sub carbon potass
Sub inur hydrarg
Sulp'iu S'ii>lim
Sulphas Sodas
       alummc
       capri
       terri
       zinci
Superlartx potass*
Tartris antimonie-
      potassae
Terebinth venet
Terra japonica
Turbeth mineral
Phials and corks
Pill boxes,  scales  and
  weights
Files,  mortars and pestles
Syringes, &.c.
    1.  Whenever a body of troops shall ar
 rive  at any military  station, accommoda-
 tions for  the sick  will  be first provided,
 and  subsequently   those for  officers and
 privates who are well,  and  to accomplish
 this, the artificers found in a regiment shall
 be instantaneously put in requisition.
    2.  Every regimental hospital shall  have
* annexed  to  it  a serjeant.   He shall  be 
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intelligent and endowed with the art of
command.   It will be the principal duty
of this non-commissioned officer  to attend
to the preservation  of order among the
sick, to the distribution of hospital stores,
and to the rigid observance  of medical
rules and prescriptions.
  3. Every  regimental  hospital shall be
supplied with one or more female attend-
ants.   It shall be the  business of these to
scour and cleanse the bunks and floors of
the rooms or  tents, to  wash the  blankets,
bed sacks, and clothes of the patients, to
cook the victuals of the sick, and to  keep
clean and in good order the  cooking  uten-
sils.
  4. A two horse waggon shall be allow-
ed to each regimental hospital,  in which
shall be conveyed a medicine chest of 200
or 300 weight, and  three other chests,
under lock and key, for blankets and bed
sacks, cooking utensils, and hospital stores.
  5. Women infected by the venereal dis-
ease shall in no case, nor on any pretence,
be allowed to remain  with the army, nor
to draw rations.
  6. No non-commissioned  officer, musi-
cian, or soldier of the army,  being a vene-
real patient, shall receive pay while under 
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cure, and a deduction shall be made  from
his wages for the amount, in price, ot  all
mcdic.nes administered to him during the
period of his being so diseased.
  7.  Toe pay of hospital nurses  shall not
exeecd six dollars per month, and one  ra-
tion per day.
  8.  Invalids having  piles  or other  in-
firmitv, (not  always to be discovered  by
the inspecting physician,) who have impo-
sed, or who  may hereafter impose them-
selves on recruiting officers as sound and
able bodied men, shall, previous to dismis-
sion,  be  put  into close confinement and
otherwise punished, in the discretion of a
court  martial, as swindlers and impostors.

                           July 16, 1814.
  9.  Stewards of the hospitals are autho-
rised  to draw from contractors any of  the
component parts of the ration which may
be  necessary to the supply  of  hospitals,
and which the said contractors are obliged
to furnish.   The component parts of  the
ration not actually employed as food  in the
hospital may be sold, and the avails  ap-
plied to the purchase of vegetables, &c. &c.
as directed  by  the  superintending physi-
cian. 
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        MISCELLANEOUS RULES.

  Each  major general will appoint his
aids-de-camp: each brigadier general will
appoint his brigade major and  aid-de-
camp; all of which shall be taken from the
line of the army. No aid-de camp of a ma-
jor  general shall be taken  from a rank
higher than that of captain; and  the aids-
de-camp of brigadier  generals  shall be
taken from the subalterns,  and not more
than one aid decamp from a regiment.
  No  officer  shall be  permitted to hold
two staff appointments at the same time.
  No  surgeon of the army shall be en-  ,
gaged in private practice.
  No officer,  commissioned or non com-
missioned, shall be the agent of a contrac-
tor.
  Quartermasters  of  regiments,  or of
corps, will cause  the company  provision
returns to be consolidated and carried''to
the commanding officers of regiments and
of detachments or brigades, for their  sig-
natures.  Abstracts of these, furnished and
presented by the contractors, will be sign-
ed by officers commanding brigades (or
separate  posts) and  will  thu6 become
vouchers for the contractors. 
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  No furlough  shall be  given  during a
campaign;  nor  any, but by the general
commanding the district or army, and lor
the cause of disability,  which  disability
shall be certified by a regimental or hos-
pital surgeon.                    .
  Furloughs shall,  beside expressing the
term of time granted to absentees, express
also an order to join the regiment, post or
garrison, to which they may belong.
 ' No order shall  be given to officers seek-
ing a furlough for their own convenience,
which  shall have the  effect of  entitling
them to an allowance for transportation of
baggage.
  All  discharges  given to soldiers  by
generals  commanding  separate detach-
ments,  shall specify  the causes of  dis-
charge.
   All  officers,  whatever may  be  their
rank, passing through a garrison town, or
established military post, shall report their
arrival at such town or post, to the  com-
manding officer, by written notice if the
officer arriving be elder in rank, and  per-
sonally if he tye younger in rank than the
officer commanding.
   All  officers arriving  at the seat of go-
 vernment, will in like  manner, report to
 the adjutant and inspector general. 
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                       November 1, 1808.
  Officers of the cavalry will be allowed
money in lieu of  forage, under the rule
which governs in the allowance to officers
of other corps.
  Captains  and subalterns of that corps
are not to be allowed forage or money in
lieu thereof,  until ordered to be mounted.
                           May 2, 18H.
  District  paymasters  shall make  pay-
ments, under instructions  from the pay-
master of the army, and conformably to
law, to the widows and orphans of officers
and soldiers who have been or may here-
after be  killed  in  battle, or die of  any
wound received in actual service.
  Dragoon  horses shall on  no pretence be
given over to quartermasters until regular-
ly inspected and  cast; nor shall they on
any pretence, until so cast, be employed
on service other than that of dragoons.
  No officer of dragoons  of any grade,
nor any  officer of other corps  or  depart-
ment of  the army entitled to forage, shall,
on  any  pretence, keep or employ in his
public or private capacity any dragoon or
other public horse or horses.
  No claims for extra services shall be al-
lowed on account of attendance on courts 
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 martial,  whether as members or as wit-
 nesses, if performed by officers on furlough,
 or  on duty,  at the post or place where
 such court is held.
   More than five women shall not be al-
 lowed to a company when  organised and
 completed agreeably to the establishment.
 Nor shall any  be  allowed  to accompany
 recruiting parties  which shall  be fewer
 than 17 men, nor shall more than one ac-
 company parties of that number.
   No contractor or  commissary shall be
justified in issuing rations to women,  who
 arc followers  ot the army,  beyond  the
 number allowed by law.   Nor  shall the
 contractor or  commissary  receive credit
 for extra liquor issued to the troops or the
 followers of the army in any case.
   Special  commissaries   appointed  by
 general or other officers for  the purpose of
 purchasing provisions,  in cases in which
 contractors may have  failed  to furnish
 agreeably to contract, shall give bond (pre-
 viously to entering  on their  duties) in  s.eh
 sum, and with such securities, as mav be
 required and approved  by the general or
 other  officer  authorised to  appoint them;
 and the names of all  such commissaries so
 appointed, with the name? of their seruri. 
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 ties, and the bonds given by them respec-
 tively,  shall be promptly reported to the
 war department.
                           July 28, 18U.
   When controversies arise on the  inter.
 pretation and application of the rules and
 regulations for the better government of
 the army in relation  to  rank,  the  com-
 manding officer of the district or aimy, or
 post where such controversies mav occur
 is authorised and directed  to institute a
 court of inquiry or board of officers, whose
 duty  it  shall be to  examine  and  report
 opinions on the cases respectively  coming
 before them, which opinions, if confirmed
 by the said commanding  officer, and  re-
 ported to  the  war  department,  will  be
 final and conclusive in the case or cases to
 which they apply.

      RECRUITING REGULATIONS.

                           May 2, 181*.
  1.  Permanent recruiting stations for re-
giments and corps will be established.
  2.  A  field officer or captain  and a com-
petent number of platoon  officers of each
regiment (or corps) will be charged  with
the recruiting thereof.
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  3  Officers so charged will be designated
by the war department, and until relieved
therein- will not be subject to the orders
of anv'other military authority, excepting
in cases of arrest for violation oi  duty.
  4. Each regimental superintendent will
station his subordinate officers at different
points,  near his own quarters....will  visit
them often....supply them with funds....and
report to the war  department all commis-
sioned or  non-commissioned  officers  who
may be incapable  or negligent,  or unsuc-
cessful in the discharge of  their  functions.
In the last case (where the party does not
succeed in getting recruits,  from  any  cause
other than the fault of the officer) he will
immediately change  the  station of the
party.
  5.  So soon as any regimental recruiting
rendezvous is  fixed, the superintending of-
ficer will  give  notice to  the  adjutant and
inspector  general's office, at  Washington,
to the paymaster of the army, to the con-
tractor of the district, and to the nearest
commissary of purchases,  to the end that
supplies of money, clothing, &c. be prompt-
ly and regularly furnished.
   6. Reports will be made monthly to the
inspector  general, war department, of the 
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progress in recruiting by the superintend-
ing officers, and to the superintending offi.
cer weekly,  by  his subordinate  oiheers.
Monthly accounts and vouchers for boun-
ties and premiums to  recruits,  will be
transmitted to the paymaster of the army;
monthly accounts and vouchers for  con-
tingencies,  to the accountant  of the  war
department;  and quarterly  accounts and
vouchers for clothing, arms, accoutrements
and camp equipage, to the superintendent
general of military supplies at the city of
Washington.
  7. The senior recruiting officer  will re-
ceive money from the paymaster of the
army or the war department, and be  held
responsible for its application.  When hi«
funds are exhausted, or likely to be so, he
will make a  requisition  on the paymaster
for a further supply, accompanying it with
an  abstract of payments already made.
  8. Subordinate officers will  receive mo-
ney from  their  commanding officer, for
which  thev  shall give duplicate receipts
and be held accountable.   Besides  their
weekly statements of their accounts, shew-
ing the amount  of money, clothing and
camp equipage, &c. received and distribu-
ted and trie balance remaining on hand, 
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they sliall also report  weekly the strength
of tneir parties, toe names of their recruits,
and the description of their persons respec-
tively.
   9. As soon  as convenient, and  within
six days  at farthest from  the time  of his
enlistment, every recruit is to be brought
bdore a magistrate, and take and subscribe
the necessary oath, agreeably to the 10th
article of the rules and articles of war. No
objection  is  to be made  to a recruit for
want of size, provided he be strong, active,
well made, and healthy.
   10.  If any recruit after having received
the bounty, or a part  of  it, shall  abscond,
he is to be pursued and punished as  a de-
serter.
   11.  Every officer engaged in the recruit-
ing service, at  posts  where there shall  be
no quartermaster, will procure the neces-
sary  transportation,  forage,  fuel,  straw,
and stationery, taking the requisite vouch
er-.
   12.  Recruiting officers  shall,  as far as
practicable, be  furnished with dmms and
fifes from their regiments;  where this may
be  impossible,  and   musicians  have  not
been  enlisted, they are authorised  to en-
gage  a drummer and fifer, at a rate not 
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 exceeding fifteen dollars per month, and
 one ration per day each.
   13.  When medical or surgical aid is re-
 quired by a recruiting or other party, if no
 surgeon or mate of the army be at or near
 the  post or place, the senior officer shall
 have authority to obtain such  by special
 agreement in writing, under the following
 rules, viz.
   For any number of sick not more than
 thirty, the  rate of compensation shall not
 exceed the pay and emoluments of  a  sur-
 geon's mate of the army, exclusive of me-
 dicine.
   In any  other  case it  shall not exceed
 those of a regimental surgeon.
   No citizen surgeon is to inspect at posts
 or places  at which  are  army  surgeons.
 Officers not conforming to this  rule shall
 be reported to the war department.
  No party shall  be detached on the re-
 cruiting service, unaccompanied by a com-
 missioned officer,  unless by special permis-
 sion of the superintendent.
  15. All recruiting officers are  expressly
forbidden to enlist any man having ulcera-
ted legs, scalded head, rupture, or scurvy,
or who is an habitual  drunkard, or known
 ft) have  epileptic  fits, or other infirmity,
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and any officer who shall enlist such man,
and any surgeon or mate who shall certify
his fitness for service, shall, on proof there-
of, be dismissed the service.
   Surgeons are to be particularly attentive
to the examination of recruits, when such
are brought  before  them,  and shall not
suffer any  man to pass who  has not,  at
his examination,  been stripped of all  his
clothes, to the end that it be ascertained
as far as possible,  that he has the perfect
use of every  joint and limb....that he has
no tumors nor diseased enlargements  of
bones or joints, nor sore legs, nor rupture.
With any  of these defects the man is  to
be rejected as unfit for service.
   It is only after  due and careful inspec-
tion as aforesaid, that the eight  dollars
payable to the soldier or citizen,  for fur-
nishing a recruit, can be paid.  When the
recruit is sound and able bodied, and has
passed inspection, no delay  in paying the
premium of eight dollars to the non com
missioned officer, soldier,  or citizen, who
engaged him to enlist, will be excusable:
and if any unnecessary  delay or  embar-
rassment be imposed on the payment due
to the  non-commissioned  officer, soldier,
or citizen, so finding and  engaging a 
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recruit,  the officer producing such delay,
&c. will, on due proof thereof, be dismissed
the service.   In all  cases the receipt for
amount  of premium of the person finding
the recruit will be annexed to the enlist-
ment.
  The premium payable to commissioned
officers cannot exceed  four dollars; to  be
paid after the  recruit has been mustered,
and in compensation for extra expense.
  16.  All free male persons above eigh-
teen and under forty-five years, who are
able bodied, active, and free from disease,
may be  enlisted; and whenever a recruit,
who is  under  age,  shall have a parent,
guardian or master, his consent  shall  be
obtained and  accompany the enlistment.
Any loss accruing from a non-observance
of this rule, will be borne by the recruiting
officer.  Recruits  shall not be mustered
until they join their regiments.
   17. When the recruits shall amount to
one hundred rank and file, .they  shall  be
organized as a company, and put in march
for their regiments respectively.   WThen a
party of recruits shall be thus sent to their
regiment, the commanding officer  shall
transmit with them an  account of the pay.. 
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 subsistence and clothing, &c. received by
 each man........
   18.  Whenever  a soldier is transferred
 from one corps to  another, or ordered on
 distant  command, or furloughed, or sent
 to the general hospital, or left sick, distant
 from the regiment or detachment, or dis-
 charged the service of the United States,
 the  officer commanding the company or
 detachment to  which such man belongs,
 will furnish him with a certificate of honor,
 specifying  the  date and  period of enlist-
 ment, amount of the clothing he received,
 when  last paid and by  whom, to  what
 time subsisted, and the balance  of bounty
 due, if any; a duplicate of which  will be
 transmitted  to the adjutant and inspector
 general's office at the city  of Washington.
   19. Every superintending officer of the
 recruitino- service will be  held strictly re-
 sponsible for the order, discipline and "good
conduct of the parties under his command.
 He  will prepare and transmit to the in-
 spector  general  at Washington, monthly
returns, shewing the name, rank and sta-
tion of everv officer within the same; the
strength of their parties respectively, and
the alterations occurring since his prece-
 ding return-. 
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   20.  All  communications with  the war
 department relating to the recruiting ser-
 vice, will be addressed to the Inspector
 General, War Department, Washing-
 ton.

   RULES WITH REGARD TO MILITIA
                DRAFTS.

   1st.  All militia detachments in the ser
 vice of the United States, must be made
 under the requisition of some officer of the
 United States (to be  hereafter authorised
 to make  such requisition) on the executive
 authority of the state, or of the territory,
 from which the  detachments  shall  be
 drawn.
   2d. In these requisitions shall be  ex-
 pressed the number of privates, non-com-
 missioned and  commissioned  officers, re-
 quired, which shall be in the same propor-
 tions to each other, as  obtain in the regu-
 lar army.  The looser method  of  requi-
 ring regiments or brigades, will be discon-
 tinued.
   3d. It  shall be the duty of the officer  so
 mustering and  inspecting militia detach-
 ments, to make immediate report thereof
to the war department, and 
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   4th.  Payment will be made through the
regimental paymaster in all cases in which
the corps shall be organised as a regiment;
and in  all cases in which it shall fall short
of the number necessary to that organisa-
tion, by the  paymaster accompanying the
army or division to which it may belong.

  CHANGES IN THE UNIFORM  OF TUB
    ARMY  OF THE  UNITED  STATES.

   The  coat of the infantry  and  artillery
shall be uniformly blue, no red collars or
cuffs: and no lace shall be worn  by  any
grade, excepting in epaulettes and sword
knots.
   All officers will wear coats of the length
of those worn by field officers; all the rank
and  file will  wear  coatees.  The button
holes of these  will be trimmed with tape
on the  collar only.  Leather  caps  will be
substituted for felt, and worsted or cotton
pompons for feathers.
   General  officers  and all others of the
general staff, not otherwise directed, shall
wear  cocked  hats  without  feathers, gilt
bullet  buttons,  and  button  holes in the
herring-bone form. 
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  The  epaulettes  of major generals will
have  on the  gold  ground of each strap,
two silvered stars.
  The  epaulettes of brigadiers will have
on each strap one star.
  The uniform of the  physician and Bur-
geon and apothecary generals, and hospi-
tal surgeons and mates, shall be black, the
coats  with standing eollars, and on each
side  of the oollar, a star of embroidery,
within half an inch of the front edge.
  The rules with  respect to undress, are
dispensed with, excepting that cockades
must always be worn.

       OF  THE GENERAL STAFF.

  The  coat.... Single breasted, with ten
buttons, and  button holes worked with
blue twist, in front, five inches long at the
top and three at the bottom.  The stand-
ing collar to  raise to  the  tip of the ear,
which  will  determine  its  width.   The
cuffs,  not less than three  and a half nor
more than four inches wide.   The skirts
faced  with blue, the bottom  of  each not
more than seven nor less than three and  a
half inches wide; the length to reach to the
bend  of the  knee.  The bottom of the
breast and two hip buttons to range. 
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  1. On the collar one  blind  hole five
    inches  long, with a  button  on each
    side.
  2. The blind holes on each side of the
    front, in the herring bone form, to be
    in the same direction w ith the collar,
    from the top to the bottom.
  3. Blind holes (in the like  form) to pro-
    ceed from four buttons, placed length-
    wise, on each skirt.   A gilt star, on
    the centre of the bottom, two inches
    from the edge.
  4. The cuffs, to be indented within  one
    and a half inch of the edge, with four
    buttons  lengthwise   on  each  sleeve,
    and holes to the three upper buttons
    corresponding with  the indention of
    the cuff, on the centre of which is to
    be inserted the lower button.
  5. All general officers will be permitted
    to embroider the button holes.  The
    commissary general of ordnance, the
    adjutants,  inspectors,   and  quarter-
    masters general, and the commissary
    general of purchases, will be permit-
    ted to embroider the button holes of
    the collar only.
  Vest, breeches, and pantaloons....White
(or buff for general officers)....blue panta.- 
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loons may be worn in the winter and nan-
keen in the summer.  Vests single breast-
ed without pocket flaps.
  1. Breeches, or pantaloons,  with four
    buttons on the knees, and gilt knee
    buckles.
  2. High military boots and gilt spurs.
  Black stock....oi leather or silk.
  Chapeaus....of the following form; the
fan not less than six and a half nor more
than nine inches high in the rear, nor  less
than fifteen nor more than seventeen and
a half  inches from point to point, bound
round the edge with black binding an half
inch wide.
  1. Button and loop, black.
  2. Cockade, the same, four and  a half
    inches diameter, with a gold  eagle in
    the centre.
  Swords.... Yellow mounted, with a black
or yellow gripe.   For the officers  of the
adjutant, inspector, and quartermaster ge-
neral's  departments, sabres; for all others,
straight swords.
  Waist  Belts....oi black  leather.  No
sashes.
  Epaulettes....oi gold; according to rank..
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  Note.... Officers of the corps of engineers
will wear the uniform already established
for that corps.
  The dress of the hospital staff will con-
form as to  fashion, to the uniform of the
staff, except  that  they  will wear pocket
flaps, and buttons placed across  the cuffs,
four to each, and  covered buttons in all
instances, of the color of the coat, (black.)
  Officers of the line appointed to a staff
station, which confers no additional rank,
will wear the uniform of their rank in the
line, with high boots and spurs.

         OF THE ARTILLERY.

  Coat....oi  the same general description
with that of the staff; and
  1.  Pocket  flaps, cross indented below,
    not less than two and a half nor more
    than three  inches wide, with four but-
    tons and blind holes; two buttons  at
    the  opening of the pocket  of each
    skirt; and  a  diamond  of blue cloth,
    ornamented one and a quarter inch
    on  each side,  the centre  two inches
    from the bottom of the coat.
  2.  The blind holes on either side of the
    front, with the coat buttoned close  to 
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    the collar, accurately to form  lines
    with the corresponding ones opposite,
    from the top  to  the bottom, i. c. not
    to represent herring bone.
  3. The cuffs with  four bljnd holes, ex-
    tending  from   four  buttons  placed
    across on each.
  4. Two  blind  holes on the collar, five
    inches long, with two buttons on each
    side.
  5. Gilt buttons of  the size  and insignia
    furnished the commissary general of
    purchases from  the war department.
  Vests, breeches,  and pantaloons....for
the  field and staff, the same  as  those de-
scribed for the general staff: and vests and
pantaloons, for the oflicers of the line, the
6ame, except the first and second particular
articles.
  Stocks   and  chapeaus....oi the  same
general description with those of the gene-
ral  stall":
  1. Button and loop of the chapeau, yel-
    low.
  2. Black cockade  of leather, four and a
    half inches diameter with a gold eagle
    in the centre.   A white feather to
    rise eight inches; that of  the adjutant,
    white and red.
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  Swords....cut and thrust, yellow mount-
ed; with a black or yellow gripe.
  Waist Bclts....oi white leather.
  Sashes....to be worn only on a tour of
duty, and round the waist.
  Epaulettes ...of gold (bullion and strap)
according  to rank.   The adjutant,  quar-
termaster, and paymaster, to wear a coun,
ter strap on the opposite shoulder.
  The  surgeons  and mates,  to  include
garrison surgeons and mates, will  wear
khe same uniform except the  cape, which
is of black velvet; the plume black.

      OF THE  LIGHT DRAGOONS.

  Undress coat....Blue cloth, single breast-
ed, with one row of ten plated bullet but-
tons in front...notched twist holes on each
breast, from three and a half to four inches
at the bottom, and from seven to  eight at
the top, to fill the breast so as nearly to
touch the s'ye....the length of the waist not
to extend below the hips, the skirt  to the
bend of the knee; soldier's back with  two
notched holes across each, the skirt  and
sleeve  herring''bone with four  notched
holes  and  buttons   on each, the holes 
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making an angle of about eighty-five de-
grees, tiie top of them to range with the
hip buttons  and bottom of the breast....
turnbacks of blue cloth united  at the bot-
tom by a silver embroidered double fleur-
de luce, the skirts four and  a  half inches
wide at the bottom, stand up collar worked
with silver braid.
  Pantaloons,  worked on  the fall  with
silk braid, two rows down the side seams
continued round the seat.
  Full   dress....Hussar  jacket,   single
breasted, with three rows of plated bullet
buttons,  holes  in each  breast one  inch
apart,  worked with  blue silk braid five
and a half inches long at the  bottom, the
top to touch the s'ye, the front  terminating
at the bottom; theskirt behind  three inches
deep, with double plait, in each fold, and
on the centre of the  back,  at the bottom
made with the braid that continues round
the edges, one above  each hip button, the
braid to continue up the side seams.  The
waist not to reach below the hips;  and no
back seam.  Pocket vv^lts form each end
the same  as the front end of the button
hole or  collar.   The collar the same a*.
the undress coat, both worked with,  silvey
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braid.   The  sleeve worked   with  silk
braid.                        ,
   Vest, of white cassimere or jean, single
breasted.
  P , nUdoons, white cassimere, or buck-
skin for parade; dark  blue cloth for ser-
vice.
  Boots, dragoon, with tops to cover the
knees.
   Stock, black leather....black silk for the
oflicers, without shewing the shirt collar
or knot.
   Spurs, vvhite.
  Helmet, according to pattern, blue fea-
ther with  white top,  feather  nine inches
long.
   Buttons, plated  bullet buttons.
  Epaulette, silver.
   Adju'anU epaulette  of his grade, white
plume  with blue top.
   Quarto-master, green plume.
   Paymaster, epaulette of his grade, blue
plume  wHh red top.
   Surgeon,  the  undress  uniform, with
black cape and cujf.
   Cloak, hussar, with  sleeves, cape eight
inches wide.
   middle,  plain;   plated   pummel  and
cantle» 
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   Housings of field officers,  blue  cloth
 bordered with a double row of silver lace.
   Troop officers, one row of silver lace
 with three bars of lace placed  diagonally
 from the corner of the housings, for cap-
 tains....one  row of  silver lace  with two
 bars for the lieutenants....one row of silver
 lace with one bar for the cornets.
   Staff, according to their grade.
   Medical staff, one row of lace.
   Holsters, bear-kin, double flaps.
   Bridle,  bit, and bridoon, reins, black
 leather.
   Non-commissioned officers, the same as
 the officers, with the exception of silk fer-
 ret instead of lace....Sergeants to wear two
 white epaulettes, corporals one on the right
 shoulder.
   Armament....pistols, sabres, steel scab-
 bards, buff  leather waist belt, white  plate
 in front with the   eagle  in  relief...silver
 sword  knot.
                            May 2, 1811.
   The white cord  to  be taken off the sol-
diers' jackets, and  no lace, or silver cord,
lo be worn by officers. 
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      OF THE LIGHT  ARTILLERY.

  Full dress....Coatee, of dark blue cloth;
single  breasted;  three  rows of buttons,
nine in each.  Button holes worked, dia-
gonally,  in  blue  twist.  Standing  collar;
the height of the  collar not to extend be-
yond the tip of the ear; two buttons; the
button holes of  blue  twist.   Cuffs  blue
with three buttons placed vertically upon
the sleeve;  the button  holes worked  with
twist  Pocket flaps, diagonal,  with three
buttons, worked as the  sleeve, two buttons
at the waist, the skirts sloping from the
hip.
   Vest, white cassimere, or doe skin (for
winter) plain white jean, or nankeen (for
summer,) single  breasted, with nine yel-
low buttons.
   Pantaloons.   White cassimere,  or doe
skin (for parade,) dark blue cloth (for ser-
vice.)
   Boots, hussar.
   Stock, black leather, ribbed.
   Spurs, white, shanks one inch.
   Cap and ornament, black, seven inches
high, the crown  eight and a  half inches
diameter, the visor two and a  half inches
Inroad lined with  stiff leather, a gold  band 
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and  tassel falling  from the crown of the
cap on  the right side, gilt plate in front,
plume white, tipped with red, length six
inches,  one fourth red....cockade,  black
leather.
  Buttons, yellow, half inch diameter.
  Epaulette, Gold bullion, strap, basket
work.   The field officers to wear two. ..a
captain, one  on the  right shoulder....the
lieutenants, one on the left
  Adjutant, epaulette according  to  his
grade, with a band of red silk and  gold
fringe above the elbow on the left arm, his
plume yellow.
  Quartermaster, epaulette according to
his grade, plume green.
  Paymaster,  epaulette of  his  grade,
plume red.
  Surgeon and mates, same  uniform  as
described, except  the  cape, which is  of
black velvet, cocked hat, black plume.
  Cloak,  hussar,  blue cloth,  cape eight
inches large.
  Equipment, plain saddle.
  Housing, scarlet cloth, extending eight
inches from the saddle, and brought  to a
point on the flank of the horse.
  Medical Staff', blue housing.
  11 jitters, bearskin, with double flaps. 
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  Bridle, double  bit  (yellow  mounted)
reins, uiart'ngal, &c. black leather.
  Portmanteau,  black  leather,  two  feet
Ion;,  nil.; niches diameter.
  Ar lament, sabres, gilt scabbards, black
belt two inches broad,  gilt plate in front
witti toe eagle m relic:'....belt worn  over
the sasu, which is  red,  and tied on  the
rigiit  side....the  sabre  suspended  by  a
chain.   Cut and thrust swords, black scab-
bar;!-,  yellow  mounted....(for  undress)
sword knot gold.
  Pistols, calibre of the cavalry  yellow
mounted.
   U.iircss uniform, long  coat  extending
to the ,:nee, dark blue cloth, skirts sloping
from  the  hips, single breasted, with  one
row of  nine buttons....the cut, fashion  and
trimmings,  to be  the  same as  the  lull
dress.
  Where etiquette requires shoes, breeches-,
agreeable t» the uniform, are to  be  worn,
with  yellow  knee  buckles, instead  of
st •'■-.rs....yellow buckles in  the  shoes,  a
cbtY.\m br;.s instead of the cap, no plume.
   Press  of  non-commissioned  off'ce.rs
and privates, the same as that prescribed
for i\' o Hers,  with  the  exc j ton of
Worsted being substituted  for  gold band 
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and tas-el.  Serjeants to wear two yellow
worsted epaulettes and red worsted sa.h.
Corporals one epaulette on the right should
der.
          OF  THE INFANTRY.

  The same as that pointed out for the of-
ficers of artillery, with the  following ex-
ceptions:
  The sword of the sabre form  and with
mounting .-silver or plated.  For the  medi-
cal staff, small swords.
  Epaultlces, buttons, spurs, buckles, and
trimmings, silver or plated, and caps may
be worn on duty.

          OF  THE  RIFLEMEN.

  The uniform for the non commissioned
officers, privates and musicians of the rifle
regiments,  will, hercaltcr, be as follows,
viz:
  A short coat of grey cloth, single breast-
ed, flat yellow  buttons, which shall exhibit
a bugle  surrounded by stars,  with the
number of the regiment  within the  curve
of the bugle; one row of ten 1 utters in
front, three on  each  sleeve,  and three on
each skirt, lengthwise,  with blind button 
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Boles of black  twist or braid in herring
bone form.
  A waistcoat of grey cloth  with sleeves
of the same.  Pantaloons of grey cloth.
  The Jefferson shoe, rising two  inches
above the ancle joint, and not higher.
  Leather caps, with a plate and  design
similar to that of  the button, and a short
green pompon in  front.
  For field or  active service, the officers
will wear uniforms like those of the pri
vates, excepting as  to quality.
  On other occasions they arc permitted
to wear the uniform of the artillery, except
as to the buttons, the position of them, &c.
which shall be the same with  the field
Goat.
  Epaulettes of gold.
  Yellow mounted sabres for officers and
non-commissioned officers.

           OF  THE CADETS.

   Coat...blue   cloth,  single  breasted,
standing  collar,  single herringbone cuff,
eight buttons in front, six  in  rear, one on
each side the collar, with one blind button
hole, and  one on each cuff. 
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   Under  clothes....Nankeen in summer,
grey cloth in winter....black stock.
   Chapeau, cockade  with  gilt eagle, and
loop.
   Half boots and shoes.
   Cut and thrust  swords,  in a frog belt,
worn under the coat.
   The buttons, eagle impression, yellow
gilt, five eighths of an inch diameter.

   The preceding Rules and Regulations
arc approved,
             JAMES  MADISON.
  June 28, 1814
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