Allowance to recruiting officers.be entitled to receive for each such non-commissioned officer and private and for each sufficient musician, duly enlisted and mustered, the sum of two dollars.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted,Pay of men. That the monthly pay of the non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates in the army of the United States, from and after the first day of August next, shall be as follows: cadets, ten dollars, and two rations per day; sergeant-majors, and quartermaster-sergeants, ten dollars; senior musicians, eight dollars; sergeants, eight dollars; corporals, seven dollars; musicians, six dollars; privates, five dollars; artificers to the infantry and artillery, and farriers and saddlers to the dragoons, shall be allowed each the monthly pay of ten dollars. Their subsistence.That every non-commissioned officer, private and musician shall receive daily the following rations of provisions, to wit: one pound and a quarter of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, a gill of rum, brandy or whiskey, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles to every hundred rations.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted,The President may appoint four teachers of the arts and sciences necessary for artillerists and engineers. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to appoint a number, not exceeding four, teachers of the arts and sciences necessary for the instruction of the artillerists and engineers, who shall be entitled to the monthly pay of fifty dollars, and two rations per day.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted,Troops to take an oath; and how they shall be governed. That the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates raised by virtue of this act, shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed by the law, intituled “An act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States,” and they shall be governed by the rules and articles of war, which have been or may be established by law, and shall be entitled to the legal emoluments in case of wounds or disabilities received while in actual service, and in the line of duty. And in recess of Senate, The President may make appointments in the recess.the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint all the regimental officers proper to be appointed under this act, and likewise to make appointments to fill any vacancies in the army, which may have happened during the present session of the Senate.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted,Inspector of artillery to be appointed. That there shall be appointed an inspector of the artillery, taken from the line of artillerists and engineers, who shall be allowed thirty dollars per month in addition to his pay in the line, and four rations of provisions for his daily subsistence, and whenever forage shall not be furnished by the public he shall be allowed ten dollars per month instead thereof.
Approved, July 16, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅬⅩⅩⅦ.—An Act for the relief of sick and disabled Seamen.[1]
- ↑ The acts passed by Congress, for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, have been: An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, July 16, 1798, chap. 77; an act in addition to an act for the relief and protection of American seamen, March 2, 1799, chap. 36; an act for the relief and protection of American seamen, May 28, 1796, chap. 36; an act supplementary to the “act concerning consuls and vice consuls,” and for the further protection of American seamen, February 28, 1803, chap. 9.
