Oath to be cers, musi Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That every officer, non-commissioned officer, mu sician and private, shall take and subscribe the taken by offifollowing oath or affirmation, to wit: "I, A. B. cians, and do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may privates. be) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America; and that I Form of the will serve them honestly and faithfully against their enemies or opposers whomsoever; and that I will observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles of war." oath. ses incurred cers to be al Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That where any commissioned officer shall be Extra expenobliged to incur any extra expense, in travel- by commisling and sitting on general courts martial, he sioned offishall be allowed a reasonable compensation for lowed, &c. such extra expense actually incurred, not exceeding one dollar and twenty five cents per day to officers who are not entitled to forage, and not exceeding one dollar per day to such as shall be entitled to forage. Officers and service to be allowed Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That whenever any officer or soldier shall be dis- soldiers discharged from the service, except by way of charged from punishment for an offence, he shall be allowed his pay and rations, or an equivalent in money, travelling exfor such term of time as shall be sufficient for penses. him to travel from the place of discharge to the place of his residence, computing at the rate of twenty miles to a day. Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That A chaplain to there shall be appointed to each brigade one be appointed chaplain, who shall be entitled to the same to each bripay and emoluments as a major in the infantry. gade, &c. staff officer Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That no No field or field or staff officer, who may be appointed entitled to reby virtue of this act, shall be entitled to receive pay ur emolument ceive any pay or emoluments until he shall till called into be called into actual service, nor for any longer time than he shall continue therein. actual service Certain acts relating to volunteer military corps repealed. Proviso. Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 29th, 1813. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER CLVIII. AN ACT for the relief of John Binnion. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amewithdraw his rica in Congress assembled, That John Binentries in the nion be permitted to withdraw his entries Allowed to Madison county, &c. made on the eighteenth day of September eighteen hundred and ten, in the land office land office of of Madison county, Mississippi territory, for the north west, north east and south east quarters of section No. thirty-four, township No. three of range No. two, east, and that the monies paid by him on the said entries shall be placed to his credit on any purchase he shall or may have made of public land in the same district: Provided, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of public monies of the said land office that the entries for the said quarter sections were made in mistake for other quarter sections intended to have been purchased by said Bin nion. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. H. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate, pro-tempore. January 27, 1813. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. Proviso. CHAPTER CLIX; AN ACT for the relief of the Bible Society of Philudelphia. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame- The duties rica in Congress assembled, That the duties en certain arising and due to the United States upon cer stereotype ted. tain stereotype plates, imported during the last year into the port of Philadelphia, on plates remit- board the ship Brilliant, by the Bible Society of Philadelphia, for the purpose of printing editions of the Holy Bible, be and the same are hereby remitted, on behalf of the United States, to the said society; and any bond or security given for the securing of the payment of the said duties shall be cancelled. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. H. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate, pro-tempore. February 2, 1813. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. Fines impo CHAPTER CLX. AN ACT supplementary to an act, entitled “An. act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions," and to repeal the act now in force for those purposes, and to increase the pay of volunteer and militia corps. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in every sed by courts case in which a court martial shall have adcertified to judged and determined a fine against any officer, non commissioned officer, musician, or private, of the militia, for any of the causes martial to be the Comptroller of the Treasury. specified in the act to which this act is a supplement, or in the fourth section of an act, entitled "An act to authorise a detachment from the militia of the United States;" all such fines so assessed, shall be certified to the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States, in the same manner as the act to which this act is a supplement directed the same to be certified to the supervisor of the revenue. pay fines collection in-¡ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the marshals shall pay all fines which have been Marshals to levied and collected by them or their respective within two deputies, under the authority of the acts herein months after referred to, into the Treasury of the United to the TreaStates, within two months after they shall have sury, deducting five per received the same, deducting five per centum cent. for their own trouble; and in case of failure, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the Treasury to give notice to the district attorney of the United States, who shall proceed against the said marshal in the district court by attachment for the recovery of the same. Non-commis sioned officers, musi cians, and militia corps Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of volunteer and militia corps, who, subsequent to the thirty-first day of December, privates of one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall volunteer and have been or may hereafter be called out, while entitled to lie in the service of the United States, shall, dur. same monthing the continuance of the present war between tions, and ly pay, ra. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- forage, &c. as land, and the dependencies thereof, and the those of the United States of America, and their territories, United be entitled to and receive the same monthly States. pay, rations, and forage, and furnished with the same camp equipage as are or may be provided by law for the non-commissioned offi army of the |