Pay of teachers of music, military academy, 143.

of third lieutenant, 237.

of troops in 1785, 78.

in 1787, 83.

in 1789, 87.

in 1790, 88.

in 1791, 90.

in 1792, 93.

in 1794, 112.

in 1796, 115, 116.

in 1797, 118.

in 1798, 123, 128.

in 1799, 135.

in 1802, 143.

in 1808, 201, 202.

in 1812, 213, 217, 218, 220, 223, 234, 235, 236, 245.

in 1814, 252, 254.

in 1815, 265, 266.

in 1816, 275.

in 1821, 308.

in 1827, 317.

in 1833, 328, 330.

in 1834, 331.

in 1838, 343, 348, 352.

in 1846, 369, 374.

in 1854, 432.

in 1856, 444.

in 1857, 450.

in 1861, 468, 469, 471, 475, 477, 482, 488, 489.

in 1862, 500, 509, 525, 527, 530, 532, 540.

of volunteer and militia corps, 334.

of volunteers, 532.

&c., during war with Great Britain, 241.

for defence of Texas, 452.

&c. of volunteers, serving under Captain J. C. Frémont, 423.
of wagon, forage, and barrack masters, 283.

of wagoners, saddlers, &c., 469.

of wheelwrights, &c., ordnance department, 226.

of widows and orphans of militia, 293.

receipt of, delayed, to be adjusted, 294.

stoppage of, 258.

to additional surgeons, 349.

to commissioned officer deranged, 118.

to conductors of artillery, 294.

to widows and children of deceased officers and soldiers, 334.

Paymaster, duty of, may be assigned to any officer, 338.

general appointed, 118, 123.

deputy, appointment of, 385.

pay of, 137, 139, 143, 256, 273, 402.
quarters of, 137.

rank and pay of, 402.

gives bonds, 146.

of army, duty of 256.

of engineers, 224.

of legion, duties of, 165.

Paymaster, pay of, 93.

powers of, 146.

subject to directions of President, 146.
to pay department, 342.

Paymasters, additional, appointment of, 337.

and their duties, 273.

assistant, appointment of, 256.
commissions to, 396.

deputy, discharge of, at end of Mexican war, repealed, 393.
district and regimental, 227.

duties of, 326.

drawn, how, 255.

of the army, 142.

of volunteers, nomination of, 385.

of volunteers or militia, 348.

pay, &c. of, 308.

pay and allowances of, 402.

regimental and battalion, duties of, 274.

to give security, 137.

taken from whom, 273.

Paymaster's clerks, citizens employed as, 347.

pay allowed to, 397.

rations for, 423.

Payment for horses and property destroyed in service of United States,

404.

of expenses incurred by the States, 472.

of officers of volunteers, 507.

of pensions, 441.

of surplus adjutants and quartermasters, 533.
of sutlers, 498.

Payments for public lands, 222.

Penalties, additional, for desertion, 117, 240.

chaplains, for undue absence, 63.

for delinquencies, 163.

for exciting mutiny, 64.

for misbehavior during divine service, 63.

for omitting the suppression of mutiny, 64.
for profane swearing, 63.

Penalty for abandoning a post, 70, 184.

for absence from parade, 70.
for absence without leave, 66.
for accepting a challenge, 179.

for advising desertion, 66.

for chaplain to absent himself without leave, 63.

for chaplains refusing to join the army, 380.

for creating false alarms, 70.

for desertion, 66.

Penalty for failing to endeavor to suppress mutiny, 64.
to give notice of muster, 159.

to make returns of contracts, 505.

for failure of duties of commanding officers, 66.
for false affidavit of return of contract, 505.

certificate, 65.

musters, 65.

returns, 65.

for forcing safeguard within United States during rebellion, 495.
for hiring another to do duty, 183.

for improper behavior of officers, 74.

for introducing spirituous liquors among Indians, 494.
for leaving post or colors in search of plunder, 71, 184.

for lying out of quarters without leave, 69.

for member of Congress entering into contracts, 204.
for misapplication, &c. of public money, 69.

for misbehavior before the enemy, 70.

for neglect of duty of adjutant, 162.

of brigade-inspector, 162.

of collector of court of inquiry, 165.

of cfficers, 160.

of horse, arms, &c., 182.

to make reports of prisoners, 190.

for non-attendance at court-martial as witness, 258.
for obstructing railroad and telegraph lines, 492.

for officers drawing pay for servants, 525.

for omission of duties of officers, 67.

for omitting to wear uniform, 162.

for re-enlistment without discharge, 179.

for relieving the enemy, 71.

for refusal of certificate of service, 154.
to give evidence, 156.

to obey orders of President, 157.
for refusing to quell quarrels, &c., 179.
for resistance to military superiors, 64.
for returning fugitives, 194.

for sale of provisions by officers, 67.

for selling clothing without proper order, 182.

for selling spirituous liquors to Indians, 332, 388.

for sleeping on or leaving post, 70, 183.

for striking superiors, 176.

for taking consideration for making contracts, 518.

for taking false oath of office, 508.

for unlawfully entering into contracts, 205.

for using profane oaths, 175.

for wantonly injuring materials in armories, &c., 140.

for waste of ammunition, &c., 69, 182.

for withdrawal from enrolment, 153.

for withholding pension, 515.

Penitentiary of District of Columbia, confinement of those in military
service, 518.

Pension act of July, 1838, 363.

agent forbidden to withhold, 515.

agent, pay and duties of, 516.

laws, provisions of, extended to ordnance corps, 392.

Pension list, 195.

officers and privates disabled, placed on, 248.
persons to be placed on, 206, 248.

rates of, 215, 221.

roll, 272.

officers and soldiers of militia on, 272.

rolls, names of rebels to be struck from, 493.
to soldiers of department of Missouri, 500.
Pensioners entitled to benefits of asylum, when, 416.
inmates of military asylum, 456.

in revolutionary war, 299.

invalid, relief of, 206, 295, 327.
pay of, 207.

to surrender pensions while inmates of asylum, 456.
Pensions, act to grant, 512.

allowed to certain widows, 361.

allowed to pilots, &c. of gunboats, &c., 516.

applicants for, examined, 515.

appropriation for payment of, 366, 457.

commence when, 196, 514.

compensation to agents for paying, 542.
evidence relative to, 400.

evidence required on application for, 407.
fees for examining applicants for, 515.
for disabled militiamen, 114.

for wounds, 320, 500.

granted for total disability, 457.
granted to whom, 364.

half pay, to widows and children, 295.

increase of, 196.

paid to widows and children, 339.

payment of arrears of, 320.

provision for payment of, 355.
rate of, 197.

regulation of, 319.

relinquishment of bounty land for, 269, 284.

restricted in certain cases, 365.

to Cherokee warriors, 357.

to children of soldiers of revolution, prohibited, 501.

to disabled officers and soldiers, 269.

to disloyal widows, &c., prohibited, 514.

to invalid soldiers, 89, 195, 271, 328.

Pensions to widows, continued, 365.

to widows having married, 340.

to widows of revolutionary soldiers, 427.

to widows of officers and soldiers of revolution, 395.
to widows to cease on marriage, 390.

to wounded officers and soldiers, 221.
transfer of, not valid, 197.

Percentage allowed paymaster of legion, 165.
Perjury, punishment for, 259, 312.

Permit to master of vessel to proceed to another port, 464.
Physical disability, 503.

Physician-general, appointment of, 123.

duties of, 129.

Physician or surgeon general, pay of, 246.
Pillaging after victory, prohibited, 70.

Pittsburg, pay of military agent at, 143.

Plunder, penalty for leaving post or colors in search of, 71.
Porter, Major-General, gold medal voted to, 268.
Ports and harbors, appropriation for fortifying, 200.
defence of, 102, 104, 118, 120.

of delivery, execution of revenue laws at, 463.
of entry, President empowered to close, 464.
Post, commander of, compelled to abandon it, 185.
penalty for abandonment of, 70.

for leaving in search of plunder, 71, 184.
for sleeping on, 70, 183.

surgeons, 276.

surgeons, number of, increased, 285.

Postage, letters written by soldiers transmitted without prepayment of, 470.
on letters and packages free, from whom, 219, 235, 247, 282, 287, 347.

Posts forcibly surrendered by their garrisons, 71.

surgeon's mates attached to, 170.

Powers of courts of inquiry, 82.

of judge-advocate, 79.

Pre-emption payments, bounty land-warrants received, 420.
President, acts, &c. of, after 4th March, 1861, legalized, 490.
appoints commissioned officers, 93.

officers, when, 203.

authorized to accept volunteers, 198.
to seize rebel property, 521.

cessions of lands received by, 102.

contemptuous words against, punishment for, 175.

courts-martial appointed by, when, 321.

duties of, in case of insurrection, 465.

employs Indians, 94.

may appoint officers to cavalry, &c., 153.

may arm dragoons, 92.

may call out militia, 87, 89.

may order court-martial, 155.

may organize militia in District of Columbia, 152.

of court-martial may summon witnesses, 258.

officers appointed at discretion of, 90.

of light-house board, 425.

paymaster subject to directions of, 146.
penalty for disobedience to, 95.