Chapter XVIII. *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.* Feb. 2, 1813. *Be it enacted by the Se
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Chap. XVIII.— 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.* Feb. 2, 1813. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Act of Feb. 28, 1795, ch. 36.Fines imposed by courts martial to be certified to the comptroller of the treasury.Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 32.Act of April 10, 1812, ch. 55.
That in every case in which a court martial shall have adjudged and determined a hue against any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, of the militia, for any of the causes specified in the act to which this act is a supplement, or in the fourth section of an act, entitled “An act to authorize 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.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the marshals shall pay allMarshals to pay fines within two months after collection into the treasury, deducting five per cent. fines which have been levied and collected by them or their respective deputies, under the authority of the acts herein referred to, into the treasury of the United States, within two months after they shah have received the same, deducting five per centum for their own trouble; and in case of failure, it shall he 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.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the non-commissionedNon-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of volunteer and militia corps entitled to the same monthly pay, rations, and forage, &c. as those of the army of the United States. officers, musicians, and privates of volunteer and militia corps, who, subsequent to the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall have been or may hereafter be called out, while in the service of the United States, shall, during the continuance of the present war between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of America, and their territories, be entitled to and receive the same monthly pay, rations, and forage, and furnished with the same camp equipage as are or may be provided by law for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the army of the United States.
Approved, February 2, 1813.