That the President of the United States be requested to cause the foregoing resolutions to be communicated to Major-General Taylor, in such terms as he may deem best calculated to give effect to the object thereof. [Approved, May 9, 1848.]

RESOLUTION 8.-Approved, June 16, 1848.-Vol. 9, p. 335.

Joint Resolution in relation to the transportation and discharge of the military forces of the United States at the close of the war with Mexico.

That on the restoration of peace with Mexico, by a treaty of peace duly ratified and proclaimed, all the military forces of the United States, whether volunteers, regulars, or the marine corps, who by law or the terms of their engagement are to be discharged at the close of the war, shall, under the direction of the President of the United States, be transported or marched, with the least practicable delay, to such posts or places in the United States as may be least expensive and most convenient to the troops; and at such places they shall be discharged from the service of the United States; and that until they shall respectively reach such places and be discharged, the officers and men shall be considered, paid, and treated as in the service of the United States, in the same manner as if the war had not closed.

RESOLUTION 9.-Approved, June 16, 1848.-Vol. 9, p. 335.

Joint Resolution providing for payment of the regiment of Texas mounted troops called into the service of the United States, under the requisition of Colonel Curtis, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other purposes.

That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid, out of any unexpended appropriations for the prosecution of the war between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, the regiment of Texas mounted troops which was mustered into the service of the United States for six months, under the requisition of Colonel Curtis, in the year 1847, and discharged before joining the army, the pay and allowances of mounted men, from the time the several companies thereof arrived at San Antonio, the place of rendezvous, until they were mustered out of service, and the usual pay and travelling allowances from the time they left their homes until they reached San Antonio, and from the places where they were mustered out of service until they reached their homes; and the companies of Captains Smith and Hill, until they refused to be mustered out of service, or were disbanded by their respective captains; and also that he cause to be paid to the said regiment the full value of all horses which he shall be satisfied were lost by them for want of forage, during the periods herein specified: Provided, That nothing in the act approved 2 March, 1847, entitled "An act to amend an act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost and destroyed in the

1 Chap. 30.

military service of the United States," approved 18 January, 1837, shall be construed to revive the proviso to the second section of the act approved the 15th of June, 1844, entitled An act1 making an appropriation for the payment of horses lost by the Missouri volunteers in the Florida war:" Provided, also, That all horses belonging to volunteers, which were lost in the Gulf of Mexico, since the 13th May, 1846, by being thrown overboard or otherwise, shall be paid for in the same manner as is provided for the payment of other, lost horses in this act.

[Approved, June 16, 1848.]

RESOLUTION 13.-Approved, July 1, 1848.-Vol. 9, p. 336.

Joint Resolution relative to evidence in application for pensions.

That in all cases where a pension may have been granted to any officer or soldier of the Revolution in his lifetime, the evidence upon which such pension was granted shall be conclusive of the service of such officer or soldier in the application of any widow, or woman who may have been the widow, of such officer or soldier, for a pension; and upon proof by her that she was married to any such officer or soldier prior to January first, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, and that she is a widow, she shall thereupon be placed upon the pension rolls at the same rate that such officer or soldier received during his lifetime.'

[By resolution 20, July 29, 1848, vol. 9, p. 339, the three months' extra pay allowed by the act of July 19, 1848, sec. 5, to officers and soldiers who served in Mexico, to be settled by the pay department of the army.3]

RESOLUTION 24.-Approved, August 10, 1848.-Vol. 9, p. 340.

Joint Resolution concerning certain portions of the marine and ordnance corps.

That the officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, and musicians of the marine corps, who have served with the army in the war with Mexico, and also the artificers and laborers of the ordnance corps serving in said war, be placed, in all respects as to bounty land and other remuneration, in addition to ordinary pay, on a footing with the officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, and musicians of the army: Provided, That this remuneration shall be in lieu of prize-money and all other extra allowances.

1 Chap. 73.

2 See chap. 189, 7 July, 1838, and chap. 8, 2 Feb. 1848.

3 But by Res. 9, 25 July, 1850, to be settled by second auditor of the treasury. 4 By 5 July, 1838, chap. 162, and 2 March, 1837, chap. 21.

CHAPTER 62.-Approved, February 22, 1849.-Vol. 9, p. 347. An Act granting five years' half pay to certain widows and orphans of officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, both regulars and volunteers.

That the provisions of the second section of the act entitled "An act1 amending the act entitled 'An act granting half pay to widows or orphans, where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States,' in cases of deceased officers and soldiers of the militia and volunteers," approved July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be so construed as to embrace all widows and orphans of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, whether of the regular army or2 of volunteers, who have received an honorable discharge, or who remained to the date of their death in the military service of the United States, and who have died, since their return to their usual place of residence, of wounds received or from disease contracted while in line of duty, subject to such rules, regulations, and restrictions as the secretary of war, by the third section of said act, is authorized to impose.

CHAPTER 79.-Approved, March 2, 1849.-Vol. 9, p. 349. An Act to allow subsistence to certain Arkansas and other volunteers, who have been prisoners of war in Mexico.

That the proper accounting officers of the army of the United States be, and they are hereby, required to pay, in money, to each volunteer of the Arkansas regiment, and to each volunteer of any other corps that has been in the military service of the United States, who has been a prisoner of war in Mexico, the sum of forty cents a day, in lieu of subsistence, during the whole time of his imprisonment.

SEC. 2. That the benefits provided by the first section of this act extend to the legal representatives of said volunteers.

SEC. 3. That the same evidence as is now required to establish the fact of ordinary service shall be sufficient to establish the fact of imprisonment, and to authorize and require said accounting officers to make the payments provided by the first section of this act, upon application of said volunteer, his authorized agent, or legal representative.

1 Chapter 108.

2 Or the militia of the war of 1812, or the Indian wars since 1790. See 3 Feb. 1853, chap. 41.

3 Extended to the widows of those who died in the service in Mexico, or going or returning, &c., 28 Sept. 1850, or who were in the army 1 March, 1846, or since.

It is supposed that all these claims have been paid.

CHAPTER 80.-Approved, March 2, 1849.-Vol. 9, p. 350.

An Act concerning the pay department of the army.

That the pay department of the army shall consist of a paymaster-general, who shall have the rank of colonel, and the same pay and allowances as are at present provided by law,1 and the same tenure of office as the heads of other disbursing departments of the army; two deputy paymasters-general, with the same rank, pay, and allowances as are now provided by law for such officers, and the same tenure of office as officers of like grade in other disbursing departments of the army; and twentyfive paymasters, with the same rank, pay, and allowances as are now provided by law for such officers, and the same tenure of office as officers of like grade in other disbursing departments of the army. That it shall be the duty of all disbursing officers of the pay department to renew their bonds, or furnish additional security, at least once in four years, or as much oftener as the President may direct. That the officers of the pay department, provided for by the first section of this act, shall consist of the paymaster-general, the two deputy paymastersgeneral now in commission, the fifteen paymasters who were in service under the acts in force at the commencement of the war with Mexico, and ten paymasters to be selected from the additional paymasters now in service, and the thirteen paymasters authorized by the acts of the seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven."

CHAPTER 83.-Approved, March 2, 1849.-Vol. 9, p. 351.

An Act to provide for an increase of the medical staff, and for an additional number of chaplains of the army of the United States.

3. Appointment of ten additional chaplains authorized. 4. Judge-advocate of the army; appointment of, authorized.

That so much of section third of an act entitled "An act to amend an

1 Salary $2500 by act 24 April, 1816, chap. 69, $2740 by 21 Feb. 1857, chap. 55. 2 As lieutenant-colonel of cavalry.

3 Major of cavalry.

6 Chap. 104.

act entitled 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," approved July 19, 1848, as prevents the filling of vacancies in the medical department of the army until further authorized by law, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

SEC. 2. That the medical staff of the army be increased by the addition of ten assistant surgeons, to be appointed as provided by existing laws, and the regulations made under them.

SEC. 3. That the provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight be, and hereby are, extended so as to authorize the employment of ten additional chaplains for military posts of the United States.

SEC. 4. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint a suitable person as judge-advocate for the army, to be taken from the captains in the army, who shall have the brevet rank, pay, and emoluments of a major of cavalry, and that so much of the proviso to the third section of the act approved July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, as relates to officers of the adjutantgeneral's department, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. [Approved, March 2, 1849.]

CHAPTER 101.-By Sec. 2, March 3, 1849.—Vol. 9, p. 370.

The military storekeeper at Watertown arsenal, Massachusetts, be allowed, from the 1st day of October, 1842, the the same compensation as is authorized by the Act of the 23d August, 1842, to be paid to the storekeepers at the Washington, Pittsburg, and Watervliet arsenals; and that there be paid to military storekeeper T. A. Webber $20 per month, for and during the time he has performed the duties of commissary and assistant commissary of subsistence at said arsenal.

SEC. 3. And every non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, in the company of sappers and miners, and pontoniers, raised by the acts of May 9th, 1848, who served in said company in the war with Mexico, shall, on application, be entitled to receive an honorable discharge from the service of the United States, and stand as if they had served out their respective

terms.

1 Chap. 29, 18 June, 1846.

2 Chap. 16, 13 May, 1846.

3 See for further increase sec. 2, chap. 125, 16 Aug. 1856, and chap. 55, 16 April, 1862, and chap. 127, 2 July, 1862.

7 July, 1838, chap. 194.

5 In cases of general court-martial, the President may appoint: 16 March, 1802, chap. 9, sec. 21; and see act 3 March, 1797, chap. 16, vol. 1, p. 508.

For judge advocate-general and judges-advocate, see chap. 201, secs. 6 and 7, 17 July, 1862.

6 Chap. 104.

7 Chap. 186.

8 Chap. 21.