APPENDIX. CHAP. 2. An act to regulate the pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and 1. An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing Page: 295 299 CHAP. 3. Au act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the CHAP. 4. An act providing arms for the militia throughout the United States, July 6, СНАР.. CHAP. СНАР. 5. An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act more effectually to provide 6. An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act to provide for calling 8. An act concerning, field officers of the inilitia, April 20, 1816, CHAP. CHAP. 11. Resolution directing a system of cavalry tactics, and a system of instruction 301 303 303 304 305 306 306 307 307 308 309 CHAP. 14. An act for the payment of Florida militia called into service in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and eighteen hundred and forty, August 23, 1842, 310 cadets may be attached to, as students, 105 105 106 145 145 146 appropriations for erecting buildings, and procuring library for, professors, instructors, &c., at, their duties and pay, how selected, teacher of drawing at, to be professor of drawing, 146 270 288 283 288 288 first teacher of French, to be professor of French language, 288 Accounts, rendition of, prompt settlement of, &c., T62, 163, 216 failing to render, penalty for, 216 Advising desertion, penalty for, 17, 111 Administration of justice, Advances of public money prohibited, Adjutant General, appointinent of, authorized, deputy, President may appoint, 33 216 214 154 268 164, 266 additional officers of, Agent of the Treasury to be designated, 209 to superintend suits against delinquents, 209 Agents, military, authorized, 99 pay of, 100 duties of, 103 Apothecary-general, and assistants, appointment of, authorized, Page. of superior by junior, authorized, to quell frays, Articles of war established, alterations of, Anneal may be taken from the decision of the anditor, Appendix, embracing militia lawa, Arming and eq iloping militia Armory on western waters, site for, Armorer to each regiment and battalion, Armories, national, established, number of workmen at unlimited. placed under the direction of the Orinance Department, superintendents of, authorized, compensation of, duties of, performed by officers of Ordnance Department, Arms, casting away, pobilc sale of distribution of, among the States and Territories, accoutrements, &c., selling, losing, or spoiling through neglect. captains of companies or troops accountable for, President authorized to purchase, Army officers not to be separated from their corps, Arrears of pay not to exceed two months, Arrest of officers, breach of, and confinement, limitation of, of soldiers for debt, prohibited, Arsenals, establishment of, authorized, additional numbers of, to be established, and magazines, regulation of, and armories, artificers and workmen employed in, exempt from military service, and service as jurors, paymasters at, pay of, limited, to give security, storekeepers at, pay and numbers of, limited, to be read to the troops in garrison, to be read to recruits at the time of enlistment, 274 295 · 129, 131 217 203 53, 71 1:29 191 71 53 53, 97, 192, 267 275 276 to give security, declared applicable, 33, 39, 41, 44, 60, 66, 86, 101, 122, 135, 143, 158, 214 Breach of arrest, penalty for, Brevets, or former commissions, when to take effect, Brevet lank, President anthorized to confer, conferred on staff officers, concurrence of Senate required in conferring, to be conferred on officers of Marines, Bribe, commissioners of musters receiving, Brigade, two regiments shall constitute a, Brigadier Generals, two additional, authorized, number of, to be reduced, Brown, Major General, thanks of Congress and a gold medal voted to, Bureaux, military, absence of chiefs of, provided for, Buying or selling soldiers' clothing, &c. may be attached to corps as supernumeraries, shall be considered candidates for commissions, Cannon, President authorized to purchase, iron, a person to be employed to superintend the manufacture of, Captains accountable for company stores, entitled to additional pay, Captives entitled to pay during captivity, Certificates of musters, false, penalty for, Challenges to fight duels, prohibited, upbraiding for refusal to accept, 2 Page. Chaplains, number limited to twenty, 268 duties and oath of, Chesapeake Bay, fortifications for protection of, Chief Magistrate of any of the United States, penalty for speaking disrespectfully of, Clerk, chief, of War Department, appointment of, authorized, Clerks, in Quartermaster General, and Commissary General's offices, compensation of, additional number of, authorized, in Military Bureaux, compensation of, authorized and regulated, of Circuit and District Courts, duties of, in respect to suits, 203 108 19, 112 40 40 141 253 253 extra, prohibited, 253 212 265 surplus, may be furnished to Paymasters, President to prescribe kind and quantity of, manner of issuing and accounting for, to be prescribed by regulations, purchase of, from soldiers, prohibited, allowed to enlisted men of Ordnance, due to discharged soldiers to be paid for, extra articles of, issued, deducted from soldier's pay, volunteers and militia allowed money in lieu of, Command of mixed detachments, Commanding officers to make monthly returns to Department of War, - 101, 135 - 172, 189 189 61, 65, 104 182 189 189 189 221 21, 113 281, 286 24, 116 110 Commissary General of purchases and deputies, appointment, duties, and salaries of, 140, 189, 214 duties of, by whom to be performed, Commissary General of subsistence, appointment, duties, and salary of, franking privilege allowed to, assistants of, appointment, duties, and salaries of, 201, 214, 224 Commissaries and assistant commissaries, additional number of, authorized for a limited Commissary General of Ordnance, appointment, duties, rank, and pay of, receiving bribes, penalty for, Compelling a commander to surrender, penalty for, Comptroller, one additional, established, first and second, duties and salaries of, franking privilege allowed to, second, decision of, conclusive, Conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman, penalty for, Conductors of Artillery, appointment and pay of, to be taken from 2d Lieutenants of companies, Confinement of soldiers charged with crimes, limitation of, |