land troops, upon

camp equipage,

vide the officers, seamen, and marines, of the navy of ing on shore with the United States, when acting, or proceeding to act, on requisition, &c shore, in co-operation with the land troops, upon the with rations and requisition of the commanding naval or marine officer &c." of any such detachment of seamen or marines, under orders to act as aforesaid, with rations, also the officers and seamen with camp equipage, according to the relative rank and station of each, and the military regula tions in like cases, together with the necessary transportation, as well for the men as for their baggage, pro- Proviso; the convisions, and cannon: Provided, nevertheless, That the tract price of the contract price of the rations which may be furnished imbursed, &c. shall be reimbursed out of the appropriations for the support of the navy.

rations to be re

Quartermasters

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the respec- of the army to tive quartermasters of the army shall, upon the requi- furnish commanding naval sition of the commanding naval officer of any such de- officers, with tachment of seamen or marines, furnish the said officer horses, forage, and his necessary aids with horses, accoutrements, and forage, during the time they may be employed in cooperating with the land troops as aforesaid.

[Approved, December 15, 1814.]

&c.

CHAPTER XCIV.

An act for the better regulation of the ordnance department.*

consist of one co

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- The ordnance presentatives of the United States of America in Congress department to assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, lonel, &c., the ordnance department shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, two majors, ten captains, ten first lieutenants, ten second lieutenants, and ten third lieutenants.

years, master ar

master

carriage makers,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the colonel, The colonel, &c. or senior officer of the ordnance department, is autho- to enlist for five rized to enlist, for the service of that department, for five morers, years, as many master armorers, master carriage-ma- &c. kers, master blacksmiths, artificers, armorers, carriage-makers, blacksmiths, and laborers, as the public service, in his judgment, under the directions of the secretary for the department of war, may require.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Duties of the co*This act, so far as it relates to organization, is superseded by that of 2d March, 1821, which abolished the ordnance department, and incorporated it with the artillery.-See chapter 122, section 4.

ment, &e.

lonel of the ord-duty of the colonel of the ordnance department to direct nance depart the inspection and proving of all pieces of ordnance, cannon balls, shot, shells, small arms, and side arms, and equipments, procured for the use of the armies of the United States; and to direct the construction of all cannon and carriages, and every implement and apparatus for ordnance, and all ammunition wagons, travelling forges, and artificer's wagons, the inspection and proving of powder, and the preparation of all kinds of ammunition and ordnance stores. And it shall also be the duty of the colonel, or senior officer of the ordnance department, to furnish estimates, and, under the direction of the secretary for the department of war, to make contracts and purchases for procuring the necessary supplies of arms, equipments, ordnance, and ordnance

The colonel to organize and attach artificers,

garrisons, &c.

stores.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the colonel of the ordnance department shall organize and attach to &e. toregiments, regiments, corps, or garrisons, such number of artificers, with proper tools, carriages, and apparatus, under such regulations and restrictions relative to their government and number, as, in his judgment, with the approbation of the secretary for the department of war, may be considered necessary.

The colonel of

ordnance to execute all orders of the secretary of war, &c.

zines,&c.to make

ly, or oftener,

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the colonel of the ordnance department, or senior officer of that department of any district, shall execute all orders of the secretary for the department of war, and, in time of war, the orders of any general, or field officer, commanding any army, garrison, or detachment, for the supply of all arms, ordnance, ammunition, carriages, forges, and apparatus, for garrison, field, or siege, service.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the keepers Keepers of maga of all magazines and arsenals shall, quarterly, or of returns quarter- tener, if so directed, and in such manner as directed by the colonel of the ordnance department, make correct returns to the colonel, or senior officer, of the ordnance department, of all ordnance, arms, and ordnance stores, they may have in charge.

&c.

of arms, &c. to

ficers and soldiers

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the costs of Costs of repairs repairs of damages done to arms, equipments, or implebe charged to of ments, in the use of the armies of the United States, in whose hands shall be deducted from the pay of any officer or soldier in whose care or use the said arms, equipments, or implements, were, when the said damages occurred: Provided, The said damages were occasioned by the abuse or negligence of the said officer or soldier. And it is

they were, &c. provided, &c,

manding regi

ges done to arms,

hereby made the duty of every officer commanding re- officers couns giments, corps, garrisons, or detachments, to make, once ments, to make every two months, or oftener if so directed, a written report of damareport to the colonel of the ordnance department, stating &c. all damages to arms, equipments, and implements, belonging to his command, noting those occasioned by negligence or abuse, and naming the officer or soldier by whose negligence or abuse the said damages were occasioned.

the ordnance de make half yearly

war department,

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the colonel of The colonel of the ordnance department shall make, half yearly, to the partment, to war department, or oftener, if the secretary for that de report to the partment shall so direct, a correct report of the officers, &c. and all artificers, and laborers, in his department; also, of all ordnance, arms, military stores, implements, and apparatus, of every description, and in such form as the secretary for the department of war shall direct.

Public armories

ordnance depart

lish depots, &c.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That to insure sys-placed under ditem and uniformity in the different public armories, rection of the they are hereby placed under the direction of the ord-ment, and the conance department. And the colonel of the ordnance lonel may estabdepartment, under the direction of the secretary for the department of war, is hereby authorized to establish depots of arms, ammunition, and ordnance stores, in such parts of the United States, and in such numbers, as may be deemed necessary. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the colonel The colonel to of the ordnance department, under the direction of the temof regulations secretary for the department of war, is hereby autho- for the ordnance rized to draw up a system of regulations for the government of the ordnance department, forms of returns and reports, and for the uniformity of manufactures of all arms, ordnance, ordnance stores, implements, and apparatus, and for the repairing and better preservation of

the same.

draw up a sys

department, &c.

ment, the same

armorer,carriage

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the pay, officers of the ord The pay, &c. for emoluments, and allowances, for the officers of the ord-nance depart nance department, shall be the same as the pay, emolu- as those in the ments, and allowances, now allowed to officers of simi- artillery, &c. lar grades, respectively, in the artillery of the United States. And that the pay of a master armorer shall be Pay of master thirty dollars per month, and one and a half rations per maker, blackday; of a master carriage-maker, thirty dollars per smith, and others. month, and one and a half rations per day; of a master blacksmith, thirty dollars per month, and one and a half rations per day. The pay of armorers, carriage-makers, or blacksmiths, each, sixteen dollars per month, and one and a half rations per day; the pay

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of artificers, thirteen dollars per month, and one ra tion per day; and the pay of laborers, nine dollars per month, and one ration per day; and to all of the said workmen, artificers, and laborers, the same clothing, and other allowances, as are allowed to privates of inClothing, &c. fantry in the army of the United States, except clothing to the master workmen.

of the ordnance

The president SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the presiauthorized to Continue officers dent of the United States is hereby authorized to contidepartment in nue in the service, under this act, all the officers of the service, or, &c. ordnance department in service on the passage of the same, or to transfer them to other corps of the army of the United States.

$1.000 per year, for clerks, &c.

The act of the

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the colonel of the ordnance department, is hereby allowed, at the rate of one thousand dollars per year, for clerks, and such books and stationary as may be necessary to his department.

14th May, 1812, SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the act &c. repealed. passed May the fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred

and twelve, entitled "An act for the better regulation of the ordnance department," and the sections of any other acts, coming within the purview of any of the scctions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. [Approved, February 8, 1815.]

The military peace establishment to consist

CHAPTER XCV.

An act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States.*

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reof not exceeding presentatives of the United States of America in Congress 10,000 men, &c. assembled, That the military peace establishment of the United States shall consist of such proportions of artillery, infantry, and riflemen, not exceeding, in the The corps of en- whole, ten thousand men, as the president of the United States shall judge proper, and that the corps of engineers, as at present established, be retained.

gineers to be re tained.

Organization of

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the corps the several arms. of artillery shall have the same organization as is prescribed by the act passed the thirtieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and the regiment of light artillery the same organization as is prc

*This act, and such intervening acts as relate to organization, (as chapters 98, 109, and 111,) are superseded by the provision of the act of 2d March, 1821, chapter 122.

†Chapter 89.

erals and four

scribed by the act passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight;* and that each regiment of infantry and riflemen shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, one major, one adjutant, one quartermaster, one paymaster, one surgeon, and two surgeon's mates, one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, two principal musicians, and ten companies; each company to consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, and one second lieutenant, four sergeants, four corporals, two musicians, and sixty eight privates. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall Two major gen be two major-generals, and four brigadier-generals; the brigadiers, &c. major-generals to be entitled to two aids-de-camp, and the brigadier-generals to one aid-de-camp, each, to be taken from the subalterns of the line; four brigade-inspectors, and four brigade-quartermasters, and such number of hospital surgeons and surgeon's mates, as the service may require, not exceeding five surgeons and fifteen mates, with one steward and one wardmaster to each hospital. The brigade-inspectors, appointed Brigade inspeeunder this act, shall be taken from the line, and the bri- brigade quartergade-quartermasters, the adjutants, regimental quar- the subalterns, termasters, and paymasters, from the subalterns of the & line.

tors from the line;

masters, &c. from

&c.

subsistence,

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the compen- Compensation, sation, subsistence, and clothing, of the officers, cadets, clothing, &c. non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates, composing the military peace establishment, shall be the same as are prescribed by the act, entitled "An act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States," passed 16th March, one thousand eight hundred and two, and the act, entitled "An act to raise, for a limited time, an additional military force," passed twelfth April, one thousand eight hundred and eight; and that the major generals shall be entitled to the same compensation as is provided by an act, entitled "An act to raise an additional military force," passed eleventh January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. The president to SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the president cause the offof the United States cause to be arranged, the officers, now in service, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, of arrang the several corps of troops now in the service of the meraries to be ed, and supernuUnited States, in such a manner as to form and comdischarged, &c. plete out of the same the corps authorized by this act, and cause the supernumerary officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, to be discharged from *Chapter 54. Chapter 61.

+Chapter 46.

cers and soldiers