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VACANCY.-Continued.

house of representatives, 23.
office of president, 118.

in offices, what, how supplied, 127.
VENEZUELA, treaty with, p. 296.
VERMONT,

admitted into the Union, 657.
representatives from, 22.
circuit court for, 508.

district court for, 544.

provision relative to jury in, ib.
collection districts in, p. 515.
VESSELS. See Shipping, Navigation,
Revenue.

VICE-PRESIDENT, see President.
VIRGINIA,

representatives from, 22.

circuit court for, 511, see Appendix

A. No. 4.

district court for eastern district, 553.
for western district, 554.
collection districts in, p. 527.

military land bounties, (see domain)
p. 372.

WABASH, (see Pensioners) art. 2549, &c.
WAGES of fishermen-suits for, art. 1566.
WAITERS in the army, art. 2296.

WAR,

power of congress to declare, 60.
no state shall engage in, unless, 130.
Department of, p. 70.

secretary of-duties of, 70.

to report clerks employed, art. 143.
may appoint clerk-duties of, art. 327.
oath of officers, 328.

secretary to have charge of books,
&c. 329.

annual statements by, 330.
estimates by, 331.

accounts, 332.

reports to congress, 333.

repayment of moneys to treasury,
334.

flags and standard, 335.

report accounts settled, 342.

re-establishment of Indian agencies,
353.

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French, duty on, art. 748, 1670.
report of, after arrival, p. 410.
duty on, p. 471-472.
WITNESSES,

subpoena for, 631.

compensation to, 633.

attachment against, p. 169, note.
discharged from arrest-when, ib.
contempt of court by, ib.

imprisoned, maintenance, art. 633.
proof by, and examination of, the same
in all courts, 634.

depositions of de bene esse, 635.

may be compelled to appear and de-
pose, ib.

testimony of to be taken by clerk,
when-may be used on appeal,
when, ib.

WOOD, manufactures of, duty on, p. 471.
WOOL and woollen goods, duty on, p.

468.

hats in felts, duty on, p. 470.

WRECKS on the coast of Florida, p. 464.
stealing from, obstructing escape
from, art. 2650.

WRECKERS On Coast of Florida, appoint-
ed by judges, 591.
WRITS,

all necessary may be issued by courts
of U. S. art. 480.

tested, how-under seal, 622.

form of, 623.

may be altered by courts, ib.

of injunction, when issued, art. 654.
Ne exeat, 443.

of venire, 641.

of error, (see judiciary, error.)

THE END.

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Quartermaster General, to employ forage-masters, wagon-masters—pay, &c.

ARMY.

Horses turned over to the U. S. to be paid for-claims how adjusted and paid-act to extend to mules -extension of act

One company to be added to each of
the regiments of artillery-one re-
giment of infantry to be raised
Corps of Engineers increased-pay,
&c.-paymaster to be attached to
pay department

Corps of Topographical Engineers
organized and increased-vacan-
cies, how filled-pay, &c.
Civil Engineers to be no longer em-
ployed

President to appoint assistant adju-
tants general-pay, &c.
President to add to Quartermaster's
department-rank, pay, &c.-ap-
pointments to be made from the
army

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ART. 1. Any person who has turned over to the service of the United States, his horse, saddle, bridle, or equipments, by the order of the commanding general, or other commanding officer, shall be paid the value thereof. The claims provided for under this act shall be adjusted by the Third Auditor, under such rules as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, with the assent of the President. This act, and the act to which this is an amendment, shall extend to mules as well as to horses. Decisions under this act shall be recorded as they are required to be recorded by the act aforesaid, and payment shall be made as is required by that act. This act shall extend to cases where any person mentioned in the act to which this is an amendment, shall have died in the service, and his horse, saddle, bridle, or equipments, shall have been turned over to an officer, or other person, for the benefit of the United States, by order of the proper officer commanding, and not restored to the representatives of the deceased or paid for by the United States.(1) (See Art. 2295, et seq.)

(1) Act 14th Oct. 1837.

2. There shall be added to each of the four regiments of artillery, one company, to be organized in the same manner as authorized by existing laws, with the exceptions hereafter mentioned; there shall be added to every company of artillery sixteen privates, and to every company of infantry one sergeant and thirty-eight privates, and the number of second lieutenants of a company of artillery shall be reduced to one, and this reduction be so made in connexion with the appointment of officers to the four additional companies authorized as aforesaid, and the transfer to the Ordnance department hereafter directed, that all the present second lieutenants shall be retained in service; and there shall be raised and organized under the direction of the President, one regiment of infantry, to be composed of the same number and rank of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, composing the regiments of infantry now in the service of the United States, who shall receive the same pay and allowances, and be subject to the same rules and regulations which now apply to other regiments of infantry, as provided for in this act.(1)

3. The President is hereby authorized to add to the corps of engineers, whenever he may deem it expedient to increase the same, one lieutenant colonel, two majors, six captains, six first and second lieutenants; and the pay and emoluments of the said corps shall be the same as those allowed to the officers of the regiment of dragoons.(2)

So much of the act passed the 29th day of April, 1812, entitled "An act making further provision for the corps of engineers," as provides that one paymaster shall be taken from the subalterns of the corps of engineers, is hereby repealed; and the paymaster so authorized and provided, shall be attached to the pay department, and be in every respect, placed on the footing of other paymasters of the army.(3) (See article 2247.)

4. The corps of topographical engineers shall be organized and increased by regular promotions in the same, so that the said corps shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, four majors, ten captains, ten first lieute nants, and ten second lieutenants.(4)

Vacancies created by said organization, over and above those which can be filled by the present corps, shall be taken from the army, and from such as it may be deemed advisable of the civil engineers employed under the act of the 30th of April, 1834; the pay and emoluments to the officers of said corps shall be the same as are allowed to officers of similar rank in the regi ments of dragoons.(5)

5. The authority to employ civil engineers, in the act of the 30th of April, 1824, is hereby repealed after the passage of this act.(6)

6. The President is hereby authorized to appoint so many assistant adju tants general, not exceeding two, with the brevet rank, pay, and emoluments of a major, and not exceeding four, with the brevet rank, pay and emoluments of a captain of cavalry, as he may deem necessary; and they shall be taken from the line of the army, and in addition to their own, shall perform the duties of assistant inspectors general, when the circumstances of the service may require it.

The officers to be taken from the line and transferred to the staff, under the last preceding section, shall receive only the pay and emoluments at tached to their rank in the staff; but their transfer shall be without prejudice to their rank and promotion in the line, according to their said rank and

(1) Act 5th July, 1838, sec. 1.

(2) Ibid. sec. 2.

(3) Ibid. sec. 3.

(4) Ibid. sec. 4.
(5) Ibid. sec. 5.
(6) Ibid. sec. 6.

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