CHAPTER 49.-Approved, March 25, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 374. An Act to secure to the officers and men actually employed in the Western Department, or Department of Missouri, their pay, bounty, and pension.1

That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to allow and pay to the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates who have been heretofore actually employed in the military service of the United States, whether mustered into actual service or not, where their services were accepted and actually employed by the generals who have been in command of the Department of the West, or the Department of the Missouri, the pay and bounty as in cases of regular enlistment.

SEC. 2. That the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates so employed, who may have been wounded or incapacitated for service, shall be entitled to and receive the pension allowed for such disability: Provided, That the length and character of their enlistment and service be such as to entitle them under existing laws to such pension.

SEC. 3. That the heirs of those killed in battle, or of those who may have died from wounds received while so in service, shall be entitled to receive the bounty and pay to which they would have been entitled had they been regularly mustered into service: Provided, That the bounty and pay referred to in this act shall not be payable unless their term of enlistment and service be of such duration as to entitle them to receive the same, according to existing laws.

CHAPTER 51.-Approved, April 2, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 375.

An Act in addition to an Act to refund and remit the duties on arms imported by states, approved July 10, 1861.2

That the authority given to the secretary of the treasury to refund and remit the duties and imposts on all arms imported

1 See Res. 51, 12 July, 1862, suspending all payments under this act, &c.

2 Chap. 1. This act authorizes and directs the secretary of the treasury to refund and remit the duties and imposts on all arms imported into the United States between 1 May, 1861, and 1 January, 1862, by or for the account of any state: Provided, The secretary shall be satisfied that the arms were intended in good faith for the use of the troops of any state which is or may be engaged in aiding to suppress the insurrection now existing against the United States. Vol. 12, p. 255.

into the United States, or for account of any state as provided in the act to which this is an addition, shall extend to arms for which orders or contracts were made prior to the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two: Provided, That the said secretary shall have satisfactory proofs exhibited to him that the said arms were actually purchased in a foreign country for account of a state, and that the price paid for the same by the state was only the first cost, and the usual and customary charges attending the purchase and importation of the same, exclusive of duty.

[Approved, April 2, 1838.]*

CHAPTER 53.-Approved, April 2, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 376.

An Act to prohibit the allowance or payment of pensions to the children of officers and soldiers of the revolution.

That, from and after the passage of this act, no claim for a pension shall be allowed in favor of the children or other descendants of any person who served in the revolution, or of the widow of such person, when such person or his widow died without having established a claim to a pension.

CHAPTER 55.-Approved, April 16, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 378.

An Act to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the medical department of the army.1

That there shall be added to the present medical corps of the army ten surgeons and ten assistant surgeons, to be promoted and appointed under existing laws; twenty medical cadets, and as many hospital stewards as the surgeon-general may consider necessary for the public service; and that their pay and that of all hospital stewards in the volunteer as well as the regular service shall be thirty dollars per month, to be computed from the passage of this act. And all medical cadets in the service shall, in addition to their pay, receive one ration per day, either in kind or commutation.

SEC. 2. That the surgeon-general to be appointed under this

1 See, for further temporary increase of the department, chap. 127, 2 July, 1862.

act shall have the rank, pay, and emoluments of a brigadiergeneral. There shall be one assistant surgeon-general and one medical inspector-general of hospitals, each with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a colonel of cavalry, and the medical inspector-general shall have, under the direction of the surgeongeneral, the supervision of all that relates to the sanitary condition of the army, whether in transports, quarters, or camps, and of the hygiene, police, discipline, and efficiency of field and general hospitals, under such regulations as may hereafter be established.

SEC. 3. That there shall be eight medical inspectors, with the rank, pay, and emoluments each of a lieutenant-colonel of cavalry, and who shall be charged with the duty of inspecting the sanitary condition of transports, quarters, and camps, of field and general hospitals, and who shall report to the medical inspector-general, under such regulations as may be hereafter established, all circumstances relating to the sanitary condition and wants of troops and of hospitals, and to the skill, efficiency, and good conduct of the officers and attendants connected with the medical department.

SEC. 4. That the surgeon-general, the assistant surgeon-general, medical inspector-general, and medical inspectors, shall, immediately after the passage of this act, be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, by selection from the medical corps of the army, or from the surgeons in the volunteer service, without regard to their rank when so selected, but with sole regard to qualifications.

SEC. 5. That the medical purveyors shall be charged, under the direction of the surgeon-general, with the selection and purchase of all medical supplies, including new standard preparations, and of all books, instruments, hospital stores, furniture, and other articles required for the sick and wounded of the army. In all cases of emergency they may provide such additional accommodations for the sick and wounded of the army and may transport such medical supplies as circumstances may render necessary, under such regulations as may hereafter be established, and shall make prompt and immediate issues upon all special requisitions made upon them under such circumstances by medical officers; and the special requisitions shall consist simply of a list of the articles required, the qualities

required, dated and signed by the medical officers requiring them.

SEC. 6. That whenever the inspector-general, or any one of the medical inspectors, shall report an officer of the medical corps as disqualified, by age or otherwise, for promotion to a higher grade, or unfitted for the performance of his professional duties, he shall be reported by the surgeon-general, for examination, to a medical board, as provided by the seventeenth section of the act approved August third, eighteen hundred and sixtyone.1

SEC. 7. That the provisions of this act shall continue and be in force during the existence of the present rebellion, and no longer: Provided, however, That, when this act shall expire, all officers who shall have been promoted from the medical staff of the army under this act shall retain their respective rank in the army, with such promotion as they would have been entitled to. [Approved, April 16, 1862.]

CHAPTER 70.-Approved, May 14, 1862.—Vol. 12, p. 385.

An Act to facilitate the discharge of enlisted men for physical disability. That the medical inspector-general, or any medical inspector, is hereby authorized and empowered to discharge from the service of the United States any soldier or enlisted man, with the consent of such soldier or enlisted man, in the permanent hospitals, laboring under any physical disability which makes it disadvantageous to the service that he be retained therein, and the certificate, in writing, of such inspector-general or medical inspector, setting forth the existence and nature of such physical disability, shall be sufficient evidence of such discharge: Provided, however, That every such certificate shall appear on its face to have been founded on personal inspection of the soldier so discharged, and shall specifically describe the nature and origin of such disability; and that such discharge shall be with

1 Chap. 42. Medical storekeepers also authorized by chap. 80, 20 May, 1862, and required to give bond by chap. 201, 17 July, 1862. Medical purveyors required to give bond by same section.

out prejudice to the right of such soldier or enlisted man to the pay due him at the date thereof, and report the same to the adjutant-general and the surgeon-general.

[Approved, May 14, 1862.]

CHAPTER 80.-Approved, May 20, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 403.

An Act to authorize the appointment of medical storekeepers and chaplains of hospitals.

That the secretary of war be authorized to add to the medical department of the army medical storekeepers, not exceeding six in number, who shall have the pay and emoluments of military storekeepers in the quartermaster's department,' who shall be skilled apothecaries or druggists, who shall give the bond and security required by existing laws for military storekeepers in the quartermaster's department, and who shall be stationed at such points as the necessities of the army may require: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall remain in force only during the continuance of the present rebellion.

SEC. 2. That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint, if he shall deem it necessary, a chaplain for each permanent hospital, whose pay,2 with that of chaplains of hospitals heretofore appointed by him, shall be the same as that of regimental chaplains in the volunteer force, and who shall be subject to such rules in relation to leave of absence from duty as are prescribed for commissioned officers of the army.

CHAPTER 93.-Approved, June 2, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 411.

An Act to prevent and punish fraud on the part of officers intrusted with making of contracts for the government.3

That it shall be the duty of the secretary of war, of the secretary of the navy, and of the secretary of the interior,

1 Who shall give such bonds as the secretary of war may require, by sec. 16, chap. 201, 17 July, 1862.

? For pay, &c. of all chaplains, see sec. 9, chap. 200, 17 July, 1862.

3 The operation of this act was suspended until the first Monday in January, 1863, by chap. 203, 17 July, 1862, post.