United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 42
Chap. XLII.—An Act to continue the present mode of supplying the army of the United States.
Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, of act of April 14, 1818, ch. 61, and section 8, of March 2, 1821, ch. 13, continued for five years.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sections of the act, entitled “An act regulating the staff of the army of the United States,” passed April the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and the eighth section of the act, entitled “An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States,” passed March the second, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, are hereby continued in force for five years from the passing of this act, and thence to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.
Two commissaries created.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the better to enable the commissary general of subsistence to carry into effect the provisions of the above specified acts, there be appointed two commissaries, to be taken from the line of the army, one of whom shall have the same rank, pay, and emoluments, as quartermaster; and the other with the rank, pay, and emoluments, of assistant quartermaster.
Approved, March 2, 1829.