Labourers enlist ordnance depart ment, for five entitled to a money, &c. SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That, the labored to serve in the ers who may be hereafter enlisted to serve in the ordnance department, for the term of five years, or during years. &e to be the war, shall be entitled to a bounty of twenty five dolbounty of 825 in lars in money, and the same annual allowance of clothing as is or may be provided for the soldiers of the army. SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the physisurgeon general cian and surgeon general of the army be entitled to two rations per day and forage for two horses; and that, in $15 per month addition to their pay, as at present established by law, for regimental the regimental surgeons and regimental surgeon's mates be entitled to fifteen dollars per month, each. Physician and entitled to two rations, &c. additional pay surgeons, &c. Aids-de-camp of &c. SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That the aids-demajor generals, camp of major-generals shall be taken from the captains and subalterns of the line; and the aids-de-camp of briAids-de-camp of gadier-generals from the subalterns of the line; and that it shall not be lawful to take more than one aid-decamp from a regiment. brigadier generals, &e. Officers of the authorized by the entitled to pro motion SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That in no case shall the district paymasters or quartermasters of any grade be taken from the line of the army. SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That the officers volunteer corps of the volunteer corps, authorized by the act of the twenact referred to, ty fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred in the and fourteen, be entitled to promotion in the line of the Tine of the army, army; and that the president of the United States, with the advice and consent of the senate, be authorized to make all necessary appointments, and to fill all vacancies, which may happen in the same. [Approved, March 30, 1814.] The paymaster receive an annu XC. An act fixing the salary of the paymaster of the army of the United States, and allowing a sum for the employment of additional clerks in his office, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and providing for the appointment of assistant district paymasters.* SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reof the army to presentatives of the United States of America in Congress al salary of 2000 assembled, That, in lieu of the monthly compensation now allowed by law to the paymaster of the army of the United States, he shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, to be paid, quarter yearly, at the trea &c. *Expired by the operation of the 7th section. A further sum and for contin sury of the United States, and to commence on the first day of January last; and that, in addition to the amount already allowed by law for clerk hire, in the office of the paymaster of the army of the United States, there shall be allowed the further sum of five thousand five allowedfor clerks hundred and forty-seven dollars, for the purpose of em- gent expenses, in ploying additional clerks in, and for contingent ex-office, &c. penses of, his office, for the present year, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. the paymaster's thorized to ap. ing 30 assistant SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the president The president of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, and senate aus by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to ap- point not exceed point so many assistant district paymasters, not ex-district paymas ceeding thirty, as the public service may, in his opi- ters, &c. nion, require: Provided, That the president of the sident may ap United States shall have power to appoint any officer point any officer authorized by this act during the recess of the senate, ing the recess, to be submitted to them, for their advice and consent, at their next session. Proviso; the pres authorized, dur &c. to make all dis money, &c. to SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be The paymaster the duty of the paymaster of the army, under the direc- of the army, &c. tion of the war department, to make all disbursements bursements of of money within that department to the district pay the district pay masters, and to adjust, state, and exhibit, their several masters, &e. accounts, according to such forms, and within such periods, as shall be prescribed for that purpose by the treasury department. ters to examine the paymaster of and &c. as soon as has been made, SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, to secure District paymas the regular and punctual payment of the troops, the dis- and transmit to trict paymasters shall examine and transmit to the pay- the army, the ac master of the army the accounts and vouchers for all counts vouchers for all disbursements which have been made by them to the disbursements, troops of the army or district where they shall be sta- the first payment tioned, as soon as the first payment shall have been with estimates, made, and accompany the same with an estimate for &c. the next payment; which accounts and estimates shall be regularly transmitted, that settlements may be made. and competent funds remitted: Provided, also, That the Proviso; district said district and assistant paymasters shall make paymasters to make ments to the militia in the service of the United States, militia, when rewhen required by the secretary of war or the payinas- quired, &c. ter of the army. and assistant pay. payments to the paymasters to SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the assistant Assistant district district paymasters shall receive the pay and emolu- receive the pay, ments of a captain of infantry, and forage for one horse. & of a captain SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the district 26 of infantry, &e. sistant district paymasters to District and as- and assistant district paymasters shall severally give bonds, with good and sufficient security, to the United give bonds, &c. States, for the faithful performance of their duties, in to the rules and such sums as shall be required by the paymaster of the articles of war. army, under the direction of the war department, and shall be subject to the rules and articles of war. and to be subject I imitation of this act, rected to cause and transmitted SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force until the termination of the war in which the United States are now engaged with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dependencies thereof, and for one year thereafter, and no longer. [Approved, April 18, 1814.] CHAPTER XCI. An act to provide for the collection and preservation of such flags, standards, and colors, as shall have been, or may hereafter be, taken by the land and naval forces of the United States, from their enemies. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rethe secretaries of presentatives of the United States of America in Congress war and navy di- assembled, That the secretaries of the war and navy deto be collected departments be, and they are hereby, directed to cause to them at the to be collected and transmitted to them, at the seat of ment, all tags, the government of the United States, all such flags, &c. taken from standards, and colors, as shall have been, or may hereafter be, taken by the army and navy of the United States, from their enemies. seat of govern enemies. to be delivered to SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the flags, Flars, &c. taken standards, and colors, of the description aforesaid, which from enemies are now in the possession of the departments aforesaid, the president, for and such as may be hereafter transmitted to them, be, the purpose of being preserved with all convenient despatch, delivered to the president of the United States, for the purpose of being, under his direction, preserved and displayed in such public place as he shall deem proper. and displayed, $500 appropria ted for the pur SEC. 3. And be it further enacted. That the sum of poses of this act five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the above purposes, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Recruiting off [Approved, April 18, 1814.] CHAPTER XCII. An act making further provision for filling the ranks of the army of the SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reers may colist presentatives of the United States of America in Congress *Superseded by act of 3d March, 1815, fixing the peace establishment -See chapter 95, from 18 to 50, binding on per, assembled, That, from and after the passing of this act, free, effective, each and every commissioned officer who shall be em able bodied men, ployed in the recruiting service, shall be, and he hereby &c. is, authorized to enlist into the army of the United States, any free, effective, able bodied man, between the ages of eighteen and fifty years; which enlistment shall be absolute and binding upon all persons under the age The enlistment of twenty-one years, as well as upon persons of full age, sons under 21 such recruiting officer having complied with all the re- years, &c. quisitions of the laws regulating the recruiting service. SEC, 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any recruiting officer to pay or deliver to nor clothing to a recruit under the age of twenty-one years, to be listed by virtue of this act, any bounty or clothing, or liberty, until, afin any manner restrain him of his liberty, until after the expiration of four days from the time of his enlistment; and it shall be lawful for the said recruit, at any Minors may re time during the said four days, to reconsider and with consider & withdraw his enlistment, and thereupon he shall forthwith during four days, be discharged and exonerated from the same. en Neither bounty enlisted minors, nor restraint of ter 4 days, &c. draw enlistment &c. So much of the act mentioned, parents, repealed, Proviso; in case an apprentice, SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the fifth section of the act, passed the twentieth day of 5th section of the January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, en- as requires the titled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An consent of the act for the more perfect organization of the army of the' United States," as requires the consent, in writing, of the parent, guardian, or master, to authorize the enlistment of persons under the age of twenty-one years, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, of enlistment of however, That, in case of the enlistment of any person the master is enheld to service as an apprentice, under the provisions tied to a por of this act, whenever such person, at the time of his en-ney bounty. listment, shall be held by his indenture to serve for any term between two and three years, his master shall be entitled to receive one half of the money bounty; if held, in like manner, to serve between one and two years, the master shall be entitled to receive one third of the money bounty as aforesaid; and if held, in like manner, to serve one year or less, the master shall be entitled to receive one fourth of the money bounty as aforesaid. tion of the mo missioned officer after enlisted, to SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of Each non-comthe bounty of one hundred and sixty acres of land, now and soldier hereallowed by law, there shall be allowed to each non-com- be entitled to 320 missioned officer and soldier, hereafter enlisted, when acres of land, in discharged from service, who shall have obtained from *See chapter 76, section 5. lieu, &c. The widow and the commanding officer of his company, battalion, or regiment, a certificate that he had faithfully performed his duty whilst in service, three hundred and twenty acres of land, to be surveyed, laid off, and granted, under the same regulations, and, in every respect, in the manner now prescribed by law: and the widow and children, and if there be no widow nor child, the pachildren, or pa- rents of every non-commissioned officer and soldier, enwho are killed or listed according to law, who may be killed or die in the die in the service, service of the United States, shall be entitled to relands but, &c. ceive the three hundred and twenty acres of land as aforesaid; but the same shall not pass to collateral relations, any law heretofore passed to the contrary notwithstanding. rents, of those entitled to the eruit to serve for ed, &c. furnished, &c. a recruiting offi grant a receipt, SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That any person Persons subject subject to militia duty, who shall, according to law, furto militia duty, furnishing a re- nish a recruit for the army of the United States, at his the war, exempt- own expense, to serve during the war, shall thereafter be exempt from militia duty during the war; and every recruit, thus furnished, shall be delivered to some recruiting officer of the United States, who shall immediately grant his receipt for such recruit, to the person Free furnishing him, and shall forthwith report the same to to be delivered to the department of war, and shall specify in the report cer, who is to the name of such person, and his place of residence, as and report to the Well as the name and description of the recruit; wheredepartment of upon it shall be the duty of the secretary for the department of war to grant to the person furnishing such recruit a certificate of exemption from militia duty during the war, upon calls made upon the authority of the United States, which certificate shall be good and availed, &c. entitled able to all intents and purposes for that object: And land, &c. every recruit thus furnished shall be entitled to the bounty in land, in the same manner, and upon the same conditions, as the other recruits in the army of the United States. [Approved, December 10, 1814.] war, &c. Recruits furnish to the bounty in CHAPTER XCIII. Officers of the to provide offi An act directing the staff officers of the army to comply with the requi. sitions of naval and marine officers, in certain cases. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Restaff of the army presentatives of the United States of America in Congress cers, seamen, and assembled, That it shall be the duty of the several offinavy, when act-cers of the staff of the army of the United States, to pro marines, of the |