United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 194
Chap. CXCIV.—An Act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to increase the present military establishment of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Act of July 5, 1838, ch. 162. That the act to which this is a supplement shall be, and the same hereby is explained, limited, and modified as follows:
No back rations shall be allowed.First. Nothing contained in said act shall be so construed as to allow any officer additional rations for time past, commonly called back rations.
Chaplains allowed at only twenty posts.Second. The posts at which chaplains shall be allowed shall be limited to the number of twenty, and shall be first approved by the Secretary at War, and shall be confined to places most destitute of instructions.
Assistant quartermasters not required to be separated from the line.
Twelve lieutenants only to be added.Third. That so much of said act as requires assistant quartermasters to be separated from the line, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Fourth. That the number of lieutenants authorized by said act to be added and transferred to the Ordnance Department, shall be limited to twelve.
Pay of a private soldier.Fifth. That the monthly pay of a private soldier, raised by said act to eight dollars, shall be limited and fixed at seven dollars a month; one dollar thereof shall be retained, as provided for in said act.
Compensation to officers of the Engineer Dept.Sixth. That no compensation shall be allowed to officers of the Engineer department for disbursement of public money, while superintending public works.
Commissaries not to be separated from the line.Seventh. That the three assistant commissaries of subsistence authorized by said act, shall not be separated from the line of the army.
Bounty to soldiers repealed.Eighth. That so much of said act as allows one hundred and sixty acres of land to soldiers who shall have served ten consecutive years be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Paymaster General and Surgeon-General entitled to additional rations.Ninth. That the said act shall be so construed as to allow to the Paymaster General and Surgeon General of the army, the additional rations therein granted to officers of the line and staff for every five years’ service.
Approved, July 7, 1838.