SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the War Department, and he is hereby authorized, to prepare general regulations better defining and prescribing the respective duties and powers of the several officers in the general staff, which regulations, when approved by the President of the United States, shall be respected and obeyed until altered or revoked by the same authority; and the said general regulations, thus prepared and approved, shall be laid before Congress at their next session.

AN ACT to regulate the allowance of forage to officers in the Army of the United

States.

That all officers in the military service of the United States who are by law entitled to forage shall receive in lieu thereof when not drawn in kind an equivalent in money, at the rate of eight dollars per month for each horse to which they may be entitled: Provided, That no allowance shall be made to any officer for more horses than he shall actually employ in the public service.

Act of March 30, 1814 (3 Stats., 113).

AN ACT for the better organizing, paying, and supplying the Army of the United

States.

SEC. 9. 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: Every commissioned officer who holds a staff appointment which gives the rank of captain, or any higher grade, one. SEC. 10. 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 preceding section, shall be mustered with the same corps of the Army, and that on the muster rolls formed in consequence thereof payments shall be made in money to the officers employing them in lieu of wages, subsistence, 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 published to the Army annually by the Secretary for the Department of War.

Act of March 3, 1815 (3 Stats., 224).

AN ACT fixing the military peace establishment of the United States.

SEC. 6. That to each commissioned officer who shall be deranged by virtue of this act there shall be allowed and paid, in addition to the pay and emoluments to which they will be entitled by law at the time of his discharge, three months' pay.

Act of April 24, 1816 (3 Stats, 297).

AN ACT for organizing the general staff and making further provisions for the Army of the United States.

SEC. 9. That the several officers of the staff shall respectively receive the pay and emoluments and retain all the privileges secured to the staff of the Army by the act of March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and not incompatible with the provisions of this act; and that the regulations in force before the reduction of the Army be recognized, as far as the same shall be found applicable to the service, subject, however, to such alterations as the Secretary of War may adopt, with the approbation of the President.

SEC. 10. That

hereafter the staff of the Army may be

taken from the line of the Army, or from citizens.

SEC. 12. That when forage is not drawn in kind by officers of the Army entitled thereto, eight dollars per month for each horse, not exceeding the number authorized by existing regulations, shall be allowed in lieu thereof: Provided, That neither forage nor money shall be drawn by officers but for horses actually kept by them in service: Provided also, That none except company officers shall be allowed to take as servants or waiters soldiers of the Army, and that all officers be allowed, for each private servant actually kept in service, not exceeding the number authorized by existing regulations, the pay, rations, and clothing of a private soldier, or money in lieu thereof, on a certificate setting forth the name and description of the servant or servants in the pay account.

Act of March 3, 1817 (3 Stats., 394).

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes."

SEC. 2. That the provisions contained in an Act, entitled "An Act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States," passed on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, granting to the commissioned officers of the Regular Army, who were deranged by said Act, three months' pay in addition to the pay and emoluments to which they were entitled by law at the time of their discharge, shall equally extend to warrant officers of the staff of the Regular Army, who were deranged by the before recited Act, except those provisionally retained by the President of the United States.

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Act of March 18, 1818 (3 Stats., 410).

AN ACT to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War.

That every commissioned officer, noncommissioned officer who served in the War of the Revolution until the end thereof, or for the term of nine months, or longer, at any period of the war, on the

Continental establishment who is yet a resident of the United States, and who is, or hereafter, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, shall be, in need of assistance from his country for support, and shall have substantiated his claim to a pension in the manner herein directed, shall receive a pension from the United States; if an officer, of twenty dollars per month during life; if a noncommissioned officer of eight dollars per month during life; Provided, No person shall be entitled to the provisions of this Act, until he shall have relinquished his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States.

SEC. 4. That to each commissioned officer who shall be deranged by virtue of this Act, there shall be allowed and paid, in addition to the pay and emoluments to which they will be entitled by law, at the time of their discharge, three months' pay and emoluments.

Act of April 16, 1818 (3 Stats., 427).

AN ACT regulating the pay and emoluments of brevet officers.

SEC. 2. That no brevet commission shall hereafter be conferred but by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Act of May 1, 1820 (3 Stats., 567).

AN ACT in addition to the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.

SEC. 6. That no contract1 shall hereafter be made by the Secretary of the Department of War, except under a law authorizing the same, or under an appropriation adequate to its fulfilment.

AN ACT to increase the present military establishment of the United States, and for other purposes.

exclusive of general officers, shall be entitled to receive one additional ration per diem for every five years he may have served or shall serve in the Army of the United States.

1Excepting contracts for the subsistence and clothing of the Army.

Act of July 7, 1838 (5 Stats., 308).

AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled "An act to increase the present military establishment of the United States, and for other purposes," approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

That the act to which this is a supplement shall be, and the same hereby is, explained, limited, and modified as follows:

First. Nothing contained in the said act shall be so construed as to allow to any officer additional rations for time past, commonly called back rations.

Act of March 3, 1839 (5 Stats., 339).

AN ACT making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

SEC. 3. That no officer in any branch of the public service, or any other persons whose salaries, or whose pay or emoluments is or are fixed by law and regulations, shall receive any extra allowance or compensation in any form whatever for the disbursement of public money, or the performance of any other service, unless the said extra allowance or compensation be authorized by law; nor shall any executive officer, other than the heads of departments, apply more than thirty dollars, annually, out of the contingent fund under his control, to pay for newspapers, pamphlets, periodicals, or other books or prints not necessary for the business of his office.

Act of August 23, 1842 (5 Stats., 508).

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army, and of the Military Academy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

SEC. 2. That no officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments is or are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation, in any form whatever, for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatsoever, unless the same shall be authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly set forth that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation.

AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "An act providing for the prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the Republic of Mexico," and for other purposes.

that appointments

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SEC. 7. in the general staff, which confer equal rank in the Army, shall not be held by the same officer at the same time; and when any officer of the staff who may have been taken from the line shall, in virtue of seniority, have

obtained or be entitled to promotion to a grade in his regiment equal to the commission he may hold in the staff, the said officer shall vacate such staff commission, or he may, at his option, vacate his commission in the line.

Act of March 3, 1847 (9 Stats., 188).

AN ACT to establish certain post routes, and for other purposes.

of the

SEC. 4. That all letters, newspapers, and other packets, not exceeding in weight one ounce, directed to any officer Army of the United States in Mexico, or at any post or place on the frontier of the United States bordering on Mexico, shall be conveyed in the mail free of postage.

SEC. 5. That the two preceding sections shall continue in force during the present war, and for three months after the same may be terminated, and no longer.

Act of March 3, 1851 (9 Stats., 618).

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

Provided, That all promotions in the staff department or

corps shall be made as in other corps of the Army.

Act of August 31, 1852 (10 Stats., 76).

AN ACT making appropriation for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes.

SEC. 8. That it shall not be lawful for the officer in charge of any bureau in any of the departments of the Government to print, or cause to be printed, at the public expense, any report he may make to the President of the United States, or to the head of any of the departments.

Act of February 21, 1857 (11 Stats., 163).

AN ACT to increase the pay of the officers of the Army.

That from and after the commencement of the present fiscal year the pay of each commissioned officer of the Army, including military storekeepers, shall be increased twenty dollars per month, and that the commutation price of officers' subsistence shall be thirty cents per

ration.