tofore; but each quarter master general attached to any separate army, command or district shall be authorised, with the approbation and under the direction of the secretary of the war department, to appoint as many such officers and to employ as many artificers, mechanics and laborers, as the public service may require.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the assistant deputy quarter masters 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 senate 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every part of any act of congress now in force, within the purview and meaning of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That all letters and packets to and from the adjutant and inspector general, adjutants 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 postage.

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 submitted 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 act, shall be entitled 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, H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WM. H. CRAWFORD,
President of the Senate pro tempore.

March 3, 1813.
APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

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