Judge advocate.commissioned officers of the line, and shall be entitled to receive two rations extra per day, and twenty-five dollars per month, in addition to his pay in the line; and whenever forage shall not be furnished by the public, to ten dollars per month in lieu thereof.
Quarter master and paymaster general.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be one quartermaster general and one paymaster general, who shall receive the same pay and emoluments, respectively, which those officers have heretofore been allowed by law.
Pay of lieutenants and ensigns.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the monthly pay of the lieutenants shall be thirty dollars, and that of the ensigns twenty-five dollars: That to the brigadier, while commander in chief, and to each officer, while commanding a separate post, there shall be allowed twice the number of rations to which they would otherwise be entitled.
Subsistence allowed to majors.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the majors be entitled to receive four rations per day, for their subsistence.
Allowance to officers deranged.
Ante, p. 483.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That to each commissioned officer, who may have been deranged under the act “to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States,” there shall be paid the amount of six months’ pay and subsistence.
Approved, March 3, 1797.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅦ.—An Act making appropriations for the Military and Naval establishments for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
Military appropriations for 1797.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the support of the military and naval establishments, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, the following sums be respectively appropriated; that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States, the sum of two hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For the subsistence of the officers of the army, a sum not exceeding forty-seven thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For the subsistence of the non-commissioned officers and privates, a sum not exceeding two hundred and forty-five thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars.
For forage, the sum of fourteen thousand nine hundred and four dollars.
For clothing, a sum not exceeding eighty-three thousand and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of horses and equipments for the cavalry, sixteen thousand and eighty-five dollars.
For the hospital department, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars.
For the ordnance department, a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars.
For the fortifications of the ports and harbors of the United States, a sum not exceeding twenty-four thousand dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, the Indian department, the defensive protection of the frontiers, bounties, and all the contingent expenses of the war department, a sum not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars.
To make good deficiencies in the appropriations in the military establishment, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, the sum of seventy six thousand three hundred and twelve dollars.
For the pay and subsistence of three captains in the naval department, and for the pay of laborers employed in taking care of the frigates, the sum of five thousand dollars.
