1816, ch. 25.
Six months’ service; and name on the muster roll a condition of bounty.
Provided, &c.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.ing of this act, no bounty in land shall be given to any Canadian volunteer, except where it shall appear that the full term of six months’ service shall have been performed in some corps in the United States service, and whose name shall appear upon the muster-rolls of such corps: Provided, That where it shall appear that the said term of service had not been performed by reason of wounds received in battle, or other disabilities, occasioned by the performance of his duty while in such corps, such claimant shall be considered as having performed the full term of service for which he had engaged.
Warrants to be located on lands offered at public sale.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all warrants issued in pursuance of the act, entitled “An act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers,” and which have not been located, and those which shall be issued in pursuance of this act, shall be located on such lands as have been offered at public sale according to law, and no other.
Rates of land to grades specified.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That instead of the bounty given in the act hereby amended, the following rates shall be given: For a colonel, four hundred and eighty acres; for a major, four hundred and eighty acres; for a captain, three hundred and twenty acres; for a subaltern, three hundred and twenty acres; to a non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, one hundred and sixty acres; and to the medical and other staff, in proportion to their pay.
Contrary provisions of former act repealed.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all such parts of the act hereby amended, as shall be inconsistent with, or contravene, the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.
This and former act in force for a year.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act, together with the act hereby amended, shall continue, and be in force, for the term of one year, and no longer.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CVII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes.”
Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 55.
1819, ch. 94.
Widows and children of soldiers, of militia, volunteers, rangers, and sea-fencibles, &c., placed on an equality.
Rate of annual allowance.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the widows and children of soldiers, of the militia, the volunteers, the rangers, and the sea-fencibles, who served during the late war, and for whom half pay for five years was provided, by an act passed the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes,” shall be placed on an equality as to their annual allowance, that is to say: Such widows, and in case of no widow, such children as may be embraced in the before recited act, shall be entitled to receive, (as the half pay to which they are entitled,) at the rate of forty-eight dollars per annum, and no more; and the widows and children, aforesaid, of the officers of the different corps, aforesaid, shall be entitled to the half pay of the officers of the infantry.
Provisions of the act referred to concerning additional pay extended to wagon-masters, &c.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 79.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions contained in an act, entitled “An act fixing the military establishment of the United States,” passed on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, granting to the commissioned officers of the regular army, who were deranged by said act, three months’ pay in addition to the pay and emoluments to which they were entitled by law at the time of their discharge, shall equally extend to wagon-masters, forage-masters, barrack-masters, and other warrant officers for the staff of the regular army, who were deranged by the before recited act, except those provisionally retained by the President of the United States.
