Chapter CXCIV.
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Chap. CXCIV.— An Act *supplementary to an act entitled “An act to increase the present military establishment of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.*July 7, 1838. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act to which this is Act of July 5, 1838, ch. 162. a supplement shall be, and the same hereby is explained, limited, and modified as follows: *First.* Nothing contained in said act shall be so construed as to allow No back rations shall ba allowed. to any officer additional rations for time past, commonly called back rations. *Second.* The posts at which chaplains shall be allowed shall be limited Chaplains allowed at only twenty posts. to the number of twenty, and shall be first approved by the Secretary at War, and shall be confined to places most destitute of instruction. *Third.* That so much of said act as requires assistant quartermasters Assistant quartermasters not required to be separated from the line. to be separated from the line, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. *Fourth.* That the number of lieutenants authorized by said act to be added and transferred to the Ordnance Department, shall be limited to Twelve lieutenants only to be added. twelve. *Fifth.* That the monthly pay of a private soldier, raised by said act Pay of a private soldier. to eight dollars, shall be limited and fixed at seven dollars a month; one dollar thereof shall be retained, as provided for in said act. *Sixth.* That no compensation shall be allowed to officers of the Engineer Compensation to officers of the Engineer Dept. department for disbursement of public money, while superintending public works. *Seventh.* That the three assistant commissaries of subsistence authorized Commissaries not to be separated from the line. by said act, shall not be separated from the line of the army. *Eighth.* That so much of said act as allows one hundred and sixty Bounty to soldiers repealed. acres of land to soldiers who shall have served ten consecutive years be, and the same is hereby, repealed. *Ninth.* That the said act shall be so construed as to allow to the Paymaster Paymaster General and Surgeon-General entitled to additional rations.
General and Surgeon General of the army, the additional rations therein granted to officers of the line and staff for every five years’ service. Approved, July 7, 1838.