Additional fant gene rals, &c. the line of the army entitled to receive the same pay and emolu ments as are by law allowed to officers of the same grade. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That to any army of the United States, other than deputy adju- that in which the adjutant general, inspector general, quarter-master general and pay mas ter of the army, shall serve, it shall be lawful for the President to appoint one deputy adjutant general, one deputy inspector general, one deputy quarter master general, and one deputy pay master general, who shall be taken from the line of the army, and who shall each, in addition to his pay and other emoluments, be entitled to fifty dollars per month, which shall be in full compensation for his extra services. And that there shall be to each of the foregoing deputies such number of assistant deputies (not exceeding three to each department) as the public service may require, who shall in like manner be taken from the line, and who shall each be entitled to thirty dollars per month, in addition te his pay and other emoluments, which shall be in full compensation for his extra services: And provided also, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorised to appoint any of the officers named in this act during the recess of the Senate, to be submitted to the Senate at their next meeting, for their advice and consent. Prov Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all letters and packages to and from the adjutant general and inspector general shall be free from postage. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President is hereby authorised to confer brevet rank on such officers of the army as shall distinguish themselves by gallant ac tions or meritorious conduct, or who shall have served ten years in any one grade: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to entitle officers so brevetted to any additional pay or emoluments, except when commanding separate posts, districts or detachments, when they shall be entitled to, and receive the same pay and emoluments to which officers of the same grades are now or hereafter may be al.. lowed by law. Sec 5. And be it further enacted, That the officers who shall not take waiters from the line of the army, shall receive the pay clothing and subsistence allowed to a private soldier, for as many waiters as they may actually keep, not exceeding the number allow ed by existing regulations. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro-temporé. July 6, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. Brevet rank ferred by the President in may be con certain cases. Officers may have private waiters. CHAPTER CXXXVIII. AN ACT supplementary to the act, entitled " An act authorising the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps." BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in President officers to volunteer corps. all cases where volunteers have offered or. hereafter shall offer their services to the Umay appoint nited States, under the act entitled "An act authorising the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps." it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to appoint and commission officers thereto, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, any. thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided. That prior to the issuing of such commissions, the volunteers aforesaid shall have signed an enrolment binding themselves to service, conformably to the provisions of the act to which this is a upplement. Proviso. lunteers to Sec 2 And be it further enacted, That Corps of vo- the President be, and he is hereby authoris be formed iu- ed to form the corps of volunteers into bat. to battalions, talions, squadrons, regiments, brigades and President may appoint the officers in the recess of the Se. nate. Volunteers arms at the divisions, and to appoint thereto, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, general, field and staff officers conformably with the military establishment of the United States, and who shall be entitled to the pay and emoluments of officers of a similar grade and corps in the army of the United States. Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, in the recess of the Senate, to appoint all the officers authorised by this act; which appointments shall be submitted to the Senate, at their next session, for their advice and consent Sec. 4 And be it further enacted, That in case the volunteers when their term of ser vice shall have expired, shall deliver their stand of arms and accoutrements, in good their term of order, to the proper officer, they shall be expiration entitled to receive in lieu thereof ten dollars service for every stand of arms so delivered. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives, WM H CRAWFORD, President pro-tempore of the Senate. July 6, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER CXXXIX. RESOLUTION granting permission to the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States to use the books in the Library of Congress. RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the time being be, and they are hereby authorised to grant the use of the books in the library of Congress to the judges of the supreme court of the United States, at the times, and on the same terms, conditions and restrictions, as members of Congress are allowed to use said books. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice-President of the United States, and March 2, 1812. Approved, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER CXL. RESOLUTION on the subject of Arts and Manufactures. RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Se cretary ofthe Treasury be directed to employa person to digest and reduce to such form, as shall be deemed most conducive to the interests of the United States, a statement of the number, nature, extent, situation and value of the arts and manufactures of the United States, together with such other details, connected with these subjects, as can be made from the abstracts and other documents and returns, reported to him by the marshals and other persons employed to collect information in conformity to the second section of the act of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and such other information as has been or may be ob tained, which the subject will admit of; and that he report the same to Congress. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO. CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and March 19, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. |