Chapter CXLV. *to increase the Pay of Soldiers in the United States Army, and for other Purposes.* June 20, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That on and after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and during th
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Chap. CXLV.— An Act *to increase the Pay of Soldiers in the United States Army, and for other Purposes.* June 20, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That on and after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and during the continuance of Pay of noncommissioned officers end privates in the military service of the United States.the present rebellion, the pay per month of non-commissioned officers and privates in the military service of the United States shall be as follows, viz:
Sergeant-majors, twenty-six dollars; quartermasters and commissary-sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty-two dollars; first sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty-four dollars; sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, twenty dollars; sergeants of ordnance, sappers and miners, and pontoniers, thirty-four dollars; corporals of ordnance, sappers and miners, and pontoniers, twenty dollars; privates of engineers and ordnance of the first class, eighteen dollars, and of the second class, sixteen dollars; corporals of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, [“Musicians,” to include what.
Pub. Res. No. 68. *Post*, p. 416.]eighteen dollars; chief buglers of cavalry, twenty-three dollars; buglers, sixteen dollars; farriers and blacksmiths of cavalry, and artificers of artillery, eighteen dollars; privates of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, sixteen dollars; principal musicians of artillery and infantry, twenty-two dollars; leaders of brigade and regimental bands, seventy-five dollars; musicians, sixteen dollars; hospital stewards of the first class, thirty-three dollars; hospital stewards of the second class, twenty-five dollars; hospital stewards of the third class, twenty-three dollars.
Sec. 2. Army ration to remain the same.*And be it further enacted*, That the army ration shall hereafter be the same as provided by law and regulations on the first day of Ration of pepper.July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one: Provided, That the ration of pepper prescribed in the eleventh section of the “Act to promote the efficiency of the corps of engineers and of the ordnance department, and for other 1863, ch. 78, § 11.Vol. xii. p. 744.purposes,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall continue to be furnished as heretofore.
But nothing contained in this act shall be construed to alter the commutation value of rations as regulated by existing laws. Sec. 3. Non-commissioned officers and privates in regular army, enlisted before July 22, 1861, may re-enlist and have certain bounties.Pub. Res. No. 5.*Post*, p. 400.*And be it further enacted*, That all non-commissioned officers and privates in the regular army, serving under enlistments made prior to July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall have the privilege of re-ënlisting for the term of three years in their respective organizations until the first day of August next; and all such non-commissioned officers and privates so re-ënlisting shall be entitled to the bounties mentioned in the joint resolution of congress approved January thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That there be added to the battalionTHIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 146, 147. 1864.145 of engineers one sergeant-major, who shall be paid thirty-six dollars perSergeant-major and quartermaster-sergeant to battalion of engineers; pay. month, and one quartermaster-sergeant, who shall also be commissary-sergeant, who shall be paid twenty-two dollars per month. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, That there shall be attached to, and made a part of, the War Department, during the continuance of the present rebellion, a bureau, to be known as the Bureau of Military Justice,Bureau of military justice established. to which shall be returned for revision the records and proceedings of all the courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions of the armies of the United States, and in which a record shall be kept of all proceedings had thereupon.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted*, That the President shall appoint,Judge advocate-general to be head of bureau.Assistant judge a d vocate-general.Their duties. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as the head of said bureau, a judge advocate-general, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a brigadier-general, and an assistant judge advocate-general, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel of cavalry. And the said judge advocate-general and his assistant shall receive, revise, and have recorded the proceedings of the courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions of the armies of the United States, and perform such other duties as have heretofore been performed by the judge advocate-general of the armies of the United States.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of War shallClerks in said bureau. have power to appoint for said bureau one fourth-class, one third-class, one second-class, and two first-class clerks. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted*, That in all cases where the governmentWhen government furnishes transportation, &c., to discharged soldiers, they not entitled to travel, &c. shall furnish transportation and subsistence to discharged officers and soldiers from the place of their discharge to the place of their enrolment or original muster into the service, they shall not be entitled to travel, pay, or commutation of subsistence.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted*, That so much of the fifth sectionRepeal of law allowing pay to officers and privates of cavalry furnishing horses and equipments.1861, ch. ix. § 5.Vol. xii. p. 269. of the act entitled “An act to authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting the public property,” approved July twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, as provides that each company officer, non-commissioned officer-private, musician, and artificer of cavalry, shall furnish his own horse and horse equipments, and shall receive forty cents per day for their use and risk, is hereby repealed, except only so far as the same may hereafter be made to apply and relate to mounted troops called into the service of the United States for a term not exceeding six months.
Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted*, That from and after the passagePay of clerks of army paymasters. of this act the pay of clerks of paymasters in the army of the United States shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum, without rations. Sec. 11. *And be it further enacted*, That the thirty-first section of anPay, &c., may be continued during leave of absence, under certain circumstances.1863, ch. 75, § 31.Vol. xii. p. 736. act entitled “An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,” approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as that an officer may have, when allowed by order of his proper commander, leave of absence for other cause than sickness or wounds, without deduction from his pay or allowances: *Provided*, That the aggregate of such absenceProviso.Pub.
Res. No. 67. shall not exceed thirty days in any one year. Sec. 12. *And be it further enacted*, That all laws and parts of laws*Post*, p. 416.Repealing clause. inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, June 20, 1864.