Chapter LV. to increase the Pay of the Officers of the Army
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Chap. LV.— An Act to increase the Pay of the Officers of the Army. Feb. 21, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Pay of army officers increased. That from and after the commencement of the present fiscal year, the pay of each commissioned officer of the army, including military storekeepers, shall be increased twenty dollars per month, and that the commutation price of officers’ subsistenceCommutation price for rations. shall be thirty cents per ration.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of War beAdditional pay may be extended to chaplains at army posts. authorized, on the recommendation of the council of administration, to extend the additional pay herein provided to any person serving as chaplain, at any post of the army. Approved, February 21, 1857.