THE MILITARY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, RELATING TO THE ARMY, VOLUNTEERS, MILITIA, AND TO BOUNTY From the Foundatige of the Government to 3 March, 1863. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, (WITH AN INDEX THERETO,) BY JOHN F. CALLAN, CLERK TO MILITARY COMMITTEE, UNITED STATES SENATE. PHILADELPHIA: GEORGE W. CHILDS, 628 & 630, CHESTNUT ST. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO. PRINTED BY DEACON & PETERSON. U. S. MILITARY LAWS. SECOND EDITION. THE former edition of this work is entirely out of print; and so many material changes have been recently made in these laws that there is a pressing necessity for this re-issue in an enlarged and corrected form. This edition embraces all the Congressional legislation in regard to the Army, Volunteers and Militia, Bounties, Pensions, &c., from the formation of the Government to the end of the past session of Congress. These laws, chronologically arranged, are all inserted in full, distinguishing by a larger type those in force from those which have been repealed or are obsolete, with ample notes and references, and the legal decisions in all the cases where they have been given. All the chapters are numbered to correspond with those of Little & Brown's edition of the Statutes at Large; and every act refers to the volume and page of the Statutes, where it may also be found, and no other code is referred to. The running heads indicate the contents of each page, thus forming a complete history of the military legislation of the country. May 29th, 1863. FIRST CONGRESS, First Session.-4 March-29 Sept. 1789. 1789, August 7. Chap. 7. An act to establish an executive department, to be " Sept. 29. Chap. 25. An act to recognize and adapt to the Constitution of the United States the establishment of the troops raised under the resolves of the United States in Congress assembled, and for other pur- FIRST CONGRESS, Second Session.-4 Jan.-12 Aug. 1790. 1790, April 30. Chap. 10. An act for regulating the military establishment of FIRST CONGRESS, Third Session.-6 Dec. 1790-3 March, 1791. 1791, March 3. Chap. 28. An act for raising and adding another regiment to the military establishment of the United States, and for making further SECOND CONGRESS, First Session.-24 Oct. 1791-8 May, 1792. 1792, March 5. Chap. 9. An act for making further and more effectual pro- vision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States........... "March 28. Chap. 14. An act supplemental to the act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the 94 |