United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/3rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 52
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅬⅡ.—An Act in addition to the “Act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States.”
Allowance to widows and orphans of officers dying in service.
1792, ch. 9.
1802, ch. 9, sec. 14, 15.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any commissioned officer in the troops of the United States shall, while in the service of the United States, die by reason of wounds received in actual service of the United States, and shall leave a widow, or if no widow, shall leave a child or children, under age, 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, for and during the term of five years: And in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer, while 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.
Army how paid in future.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the army be in future paid in such manner that the arrears shall at no time exceed two months.
President of United States may increase rations of certain troops.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That to such of the troops as are or may be employed on the frontiers, and under such special circumstances as in the opinion of the President of the United States, may require an augmentation of some parts of their rations, the President be authorized to direct such augmentation as he may judge necessary, not exceeding four ounces of beef, two ounces of flour and half a gill of rum or whiskey in addition to each ration, and half a pint of salt to one hundred rations.
Approved, June 7, 1794.