Chapter XXI. *for the Organization of a Company of Sappers, Minors, and Pontoniers.* May 15, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *A company of sappers, miners, and pontoniers to be raised
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Chap. XXI.— An Act *for the Organization of a Company of Sappers, Minors, and Pontoniers.* May 15, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *A company of sappers, miners, and pontoniers to be raised.That there be added to the corps of engineers one company of sappers, miners, and pontoniers, to be called engineer soldiers; which company shall be composed of ten sergeants, or master workmen, ten corporals, or overseers, two musicians, thirty-nine privates of the first class, or artificers, and thirty-nine privates of the second class, or laborers; in all, one hundred men.
Sec. 2. Pay and rations. *And be it further enacted,* That the pay and rations of the sergeants, or master workmen, of said company, shall be the same as those now allowed by law to the master workmen employed by the ordnance department, excepting that the engineer sergeants shall receive one ration only per day, instead of one ration and a half; of the corporals, or overseers, the same as those now allowed by law to the armorers, carriage-makers, and blacksmiths employed by the ordnance TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 22. 1846.13department, excepting that the engineer corporals shall receive one ration only per day, instead of one ration and a half; of the privates of the first class, or artificers, the same as those now allowed by law to the artificers employed by the ordnance department; of the privates of the second class, or laborers, the same as those now allowed by law to the laborers employed by the ordnance department; and of the musicians, the same as those allowed by law to the musicians of the line of the army; the said noncommissioned officers, privates, and musicians being respectively entitled to the same clothing and otherClothing, and other allowances. allowances as are granted by law to noncommissioned officers, privates, and musicians of the artillery in the army of the United States.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the said engineer companyPlaced on the same footing as other troops of the U. S. shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, shall be recruited in the same manner, and with the same limitation, and shall be entitled to the same provisions, allowances, and benefits, in every respect, as are allowed to the other troops constituting the present military peace establishment. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the said engineer companyTo be attached to the corps of engineers, and to be officered by officers of that corps, &c. shall be attached to and compose a part of the corps of engineers, and be officered by officers of that corps, as at present organized; they shall be instructed in and perform all the duties of sappers, miners, and pontoniers, and shall aid in giving practical instructions in these branches at the Military Academy; they shall, moreover, under the orders of the chief engineer, be liable to serve by detachments, inLiable to serve by detachments in working on fortifications. overseeing and aiding laborers upon fortifications or other works under the engineer department, and in supervising finished fortifications as fort-keepers, preventing injury and applying repairs.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the chief engineer, withThe chief engineer to regulate and determine the number, quality, of the necessary vehicles, pontons, touls, &c. the approbation of the Secretary of War, be authorized to regulate and determine the number, quality, form, dimensions, &c., of the necessary vehicles, pontons, tools, implements, arms, and other sup-plies, for the use and service of said company as a body of sappers, miners, and pontoniers. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated,Appropriation. to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pay, subsistence, and clothing, of said company, and for carrying out the other purposes of this act.
Approved, May 15, 1846.