CHAPTER LI. AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Orr. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That Thomas Orr be, and he is hereby confirmed in the purchase of the south east quarter of section number eleven, township seven, and range two in the Steubenville district, at the rate of eight dollars per acre, and that the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars paid by the said Thomas Orr on account of the purchase money of the said quarter section on the fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and six, shall by the register and receiver of public monies of the land office for the district aforesaid be placed to his credit, and be considered the first instalment of the purchase money due on said quarter section; and that the further sum of one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty-five cents paid by Martin Andrews on the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, on account of the purchase money of said quarter section, shall by the register and receiver aforesaid, be placed to the credit of the said Thomas Orr, and be considered as part of the second instalment, which shall become due and payable on account of the purchase money of the said quarter section, on the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen; and if the said Thomas Orr shall pay the balance of the said second instalment on the said fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and the balance of the purchase money due on said quarter section, in two equal annual instalments, in the same manner as is provided by law for the purchasers of public lands, the said Thomas Orr, his heirs or assigns, shall be entitled to a patent for the said quarter section. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. April 8, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER LII. AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Wilson. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting of. ficers of the Department of War be, and they are hereby authorised and required to audit and settle the account of Thomas Wilson, for extra compensation for rations furnished the detachments of the troops of the United States, at new posts in Louisiana, and that they allow him for any unforeseen and unavoidable expenses which he shall adduce evidence to prove he incurred in furnishing the said ra tions. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. H. CRAWFORD, April 8, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON அதி CHAPTER LIIL AN ACT in addition to the act, entitled “An act to raise an additional military force," passed Janu ary the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is empowered to cause to be enlisted for the term of eighteen months, unless sooner discharged, such part of the light dragoons, artillery and infantry, authorised by the act, entitled "An act to raise an additional military force," as he may deem expedient: Provided, The whole number, so to be enlisted for eighteen months, shall not exceed fifteen thousand, any thing in the said recited act to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, so to be enlisted, shall be entitled to the bounty of sixteen dollars, and the same pay, clothing and rations, the same provisions for wounds or disabilities, and to all other allowances (the bounty in land excepted) provided by the said before recited act, for the non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, who may be raised under the same, and shall be held to perform the same duties, and be subject to the same rules and regulations. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tempore. April 8, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. &c. what compensation entitled to. CHAPTER LIV. AN ACT for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the late campaign on the Wabash. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the offi Officers, &c. cers, according to the rank assigned them by Governor Harrison, and which they held on the seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the volunteers and militia, and the legal representatives of those who were killed or died of their wounds, composing the army that served in the late campaign on the Wabash against the hostile Indians, shall receive the same compensation which is allowed by law to the militia of the United States when called into the actual service of the United States. Pensions to wounded officers and sol diers and to the families of such as were killed. of Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Officers, according to the rank which they held as aforesaid, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers, of the volunteers or militia, who served in the said campaign, and who were killed or died of wounds received in said service, leaving a widow, or if no widow, shall have left a child or children, under the age sixteen years, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to, and receive the half of the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, or receiving the wound of which he died, for and during the term of five years; and in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the term of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer or soldier, whilst under the age of sixteen years; and in like manner the allowance to the child or children of such deceased, where there is no widow, shall be paid no longer than while there is a child or children under the age aforesaid: Provided, That no greater sum shall be allowed in any case to the widow or to the child or children of any officer than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel. Pensions to &c. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every officer, according to the rank which he be in propor. held as aforesaid, non-commissioned officer tion to the and private, of the volunteers and militia, who wounds, &c. served in the said campaign, and who have been disabled by known wounds received in said service, shall be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pension as shall be directed by the President of the United States, upon satisfactory proof of such wound and disability being produced to the Secretary of War, agreeably to such rules as he may prescribe: Provided, That the rate of compensation for such wounds and disabilities shall never, for the highest disability, exceed half the monthly pay of such officer, at the time of being so wounded or disabled, and that the rate of compensation to a non-commissioned officer and private, shall never exceed five dollars per month; and all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so disabled, to receive a sum in proportion to the highest disability; but no pension of a commissioned officer shall be calculated at a higher rate than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel. Horses killed Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any in the battle person or persons belonging to the said army, of the Wa who may have had a horse or horses killed bash to be paid for. |