(ACT of April 25th, 1812.)

compensation which is allowed by law to the militia of the United States when called into the actual service of the United States. SEC. 11. The officers, according to the rank which they held as aforesaid, the noncommissioned officers and soldiers, of the volunteers or militia, who served in the said campaign, and who were killed or died of wounds received in said service, leaving a widow, or if no widow, shall have left a child or children, under the age of sixteen years, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to, and receive, the half of the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, or receiving the wound of which he died, for and during the term of five years; and in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the term of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer or soldier, whilst under the age of sixteen years; and in like manner the allowance to the child or children of such deceased, where there is no widow, shall be paid no longer than while there is a child or children under the age aforesaid: Provided, That no greater sum shall be allowed in any case to the widow, or to the child or children, of any officer, than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel.

SEC. I. Every officer, according to the rank which he held as aforesaid, noncommissioned officer and private, of the volunteers and militia, who served in the said campaign, and who have been disabled by known wounds received in said service, shall be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pension as shall be directed by the president of the United States upon satisfactory proof of such wound and disability being produced, to the secretary of war, agreeably to such rules as he may prescribe: Provided, That the rate of compensation for such wounds and disabilities shall never, for the highest disability, exceed half the monthly pay of such officer, at the time of being so wounded or disabled, and that the rate of compensation to a noncommissioned officer and private, shall never exceed five dollars per month; and all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so disabled to receive a sum in proportion to the highest disability; but no pension of a commissioned officer shall be calculated at a higher rate than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel.

ACT of April 25, 1812. 4 Bioren, 421.

17. SEC. I. The act entitled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war," passed on the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, shall be, and the same is hereby revived, and continued in force for and during the space of six years from the passage of this act, and from thence to the end of the next session of congress thereafter, and no longer. Supra 5. Infra 31.

18. SEC. II. The agents for the payment of invalid pensioners of the United States shall, in future, be required to give bond with two or more sureties, to be approved by the secretary for the de

(ACT of August 2d, 1813.)

partment of war, in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of the duties confided to them, respectively.

ACT of May 20, 1812. 4 Bioren, 449.

[Now obsolete.]

19. SEC. XVII. [Provided a fund for the support and maintainance of the widows and orphans of persons slain; and for the support and maintainance of such persons wounded on board of the private armed vessels of the United States, during the war with Great Britain, &c.]

ACT of February 13, 1813. 4 Bioren, 498.

An act regulating pensions to persons on board private armed ships. SEC. 1. [The two per centum reserved in the hands of the collectors and consuls by the act of June 1812, shall be paid to the treasury under the like regulations provided for other public moneys, and shall constitute a fund for the purposes provided for by the seventeenth section of the before mentioned act.]

SEC. 1. The secretary of the navy shall be authorized and re quired to place on the pension list, under the like regulations and restrictions as are used in relation to the navy of the United States, any officer, seaman, or marine, who, on board of any private armed ship or vessel bearing a commission of letter of marque, shall have been wounded, or otherwise disabled, in any engagement with the enemy; allowing to the captain, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars per month; to lieutenants and sailing masters, a sum not exceeding twelve dollars, each, per month; to marine officer, boatswain, gunner, carpenter, master's mate, and prize masters, a sum not exceeding ten dollars, each, per month; to all other of ficers, a sum not exceeding eight dollars, each, per month, for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; and to a seaman, or acting as a marine, the sum of six dollars per month, for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; which several pensions shall be paid, by direction of the secretary of the navy, out of the fund above provided, and from no other.

ACT of August 2, 1813. 4 Bioren, 623.

An act to provide for the widows and orphans of militia slain, and for militia disabled, in the service of the United States.

20. SEC. 1. If any commissioned officer of the militia, or of any volunteer corps, shall, while in the service of the United States, die by reason of any wound received in actual service of the United States, and leave a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the time

(ACT of April 16th, 1816.)

shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer: Provided always, That such half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children.

SEC. 11. If any officer, noncommissioned officer, musician, or private, of the militia, or of any volunteer corps, shall be disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, while in the line of his duty, he shall, upon substantiating his claim, in the manner described by an act, entitled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war," passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pension, and under such regulations, as are provided by the said act, or as may hereafter be provided by law: Provided always, That the compensation to be allowed for such wounds or disabilities, to a commissioned officer, shall not exceed, for the highest rate of disability, half the monthly pay of such officer at the time of his being wounded or disabled, and that no officer shall receive more than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel; and that the rate of compensation to noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, shall not exceed five dollars per month: And provided also, That all inferior disabilities shall entitle the persons so disabled, to receive an allowance proportionate to the highest disability.

ACT of August 2, 1813. 4 Bioren, 631.

SEC. I. The act regulating pensions to persons on board private armed ships, shall be construed to authorize the secretary of the navy to place on the pension list, under the restrictions and regulations of the said act, any officer, seaman, or marine belonging to any private armed ship or vessel of the United States bearing a commission of letter of marque, who shall have been wounded or otherwise disabled, in the line of their duty as officers, seamen, or marines of such private armed ship or vessel.

ACT of March 4, 1814. 4 Bioren, 652.

SEC. 1. [If any officer, seaman, or marine serving on board of any private armed ship or vessel, bearing a commission of letter of marque, shall die, or shall have died since the eighteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by reason of a wound received in the line of his duty, half pay allowed for five years, to the widows or children.]

ACT of April 16, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 54.

21. SEC. I. When any officer or private soldier of the militia, Including rangers, sea fencibles and volunteers, or any noncommissioned officer, musician, or private, enlisted for either of the terms of one year or eighteen months, or any commissioned officer of the regular army, shall have died while in the service of

(ACT of April 16th, 1816.)

the United States, during the late war, or in returning to his place of residence, after being mustered out of service, or who shall have died at any time thereafter, in consequence of wounds received whilst in the service, and shall have left a widow, or if no widow, a child or children, under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years; and in case of death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of said five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of said decedent. Provided, always, That the secretary of war shall adopt such forms of evidence in applications under this act, as the president of the United States may prescribe. Provided also, That the officers and private soldiers of the militia, as aforesaid, who have been disabled by wounds or otherwise, while in the service of the United States in the discharge of their duty, during the late war, shall be placed on the list of pensioners in the same manner as the officers and soldiers of the regular army, under such forms of evidence, as the president of the United States may prescribe. Provided also, That the provisions of this act shall not extend to any person embraced in the provision of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the widows and orphans of militia slain, and for militia disabled in the service of the United States," passed the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.

SEC. 11. When any noncommissioned officer, musician, or private soldier of the regular army of the United States shall have been killed in battle, or have died of wounds or disease, while in the service of the United States, during the late war, and have left a child or children under sixteen years of age, it shall be lawful for the guardian of such child or children, within one year from the passing of this act, to relinquish the bounty land, to which such noncommissioned officer, musician or private soldier, had he survived the war, would have been entitled; and, in lieu thereof, to receive half the monthly pay to which such deceased person was entitled, at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years, to be computed from and after the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, the payment thereof to be made when and where other military pensions are or shall be paid; and where a warrant for the military bounty land aforesaid shall have been issued to or for the use of the child or children of any such deceased noncommissioned officer, musician or private soldier, such child or children, or either of them, being under sixteen years of age, it shall be lawful for the guardian of such minor or minors, to surrender and deliver such warrant into the office for the department of war, within one year from the passing of this act; of which surrender and delivery, the secretary of that department shall give notice to the secretary of the treasury, who shall thereupon give the requisite orders for the

(ACT of April 24th, 1816.)

payment of the half pay hereby provided for: [continued by SEC. III. of Act of March 3, 1817, and further, Infra 31.]

SEC. I. All soldiers who have been enlisted to serve for five years, or during the war, and were above the age of forty five, or under the age of eighteen years, who have faithfully served during the late war, and have been regularly discharged, and the representatives of such soldiers as shall have died whilst in the service of the United States and all soldiers who have been enlisted, and have faithfully served during the late war, until they have been promoted to the rank of commissioned officers, who, if they had served during the war under their enlistment, and been regularly discharged, would have been entitled to a bounty in land, shall be entitled to one hundred and sixty or three hundred and twenty acres of land, according to the term of enlistment; the warrants and patents to issue in the same manner as in the case of soldiers enlisted of proper age, and discharged under similar circumstances.

SEC. IV. For the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect, and other acts giving bounty lands to soldiers of the regular army, the president of the United States is hereby authorized to cause to be surveyed and laid off in one or more surveys, two millions of acres not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the appropriations of lands by the act of May the sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, for designating, surveying and granting military bounty lands according to the provisions of said

act.

SEC. V. No transfer of land, granted in virtue of this or any other law, giving bounties of land to the noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates enlisted during the late war, shall be vadid, unless the contract or agreement therefor, or letter of attorney, giving power to sell or convey, shall have been executed after the patents shall be issued and delivered to the persons entitled thereto.

ACT of April 24, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 70.

An act to increase the pensions of invalids in certain cases; for the relief of invalids of the militia; and for the appointment of pension agents in those states where there is no commissioner of loans.

22. SEC. 1. All persons, of the ranks hereinafter named, who are now on the military pension roll of the United States, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be entitled to, and receive, for disabilities of the highest degree, the following sums, in lieu of those to which they are now entitled, to wit: a first lieutenant, seventeen dollars; a second lieutenant, fifteen dollars; a third lieutenant, fourteen dollars; an ensign, thirteen dollars; and a noncommissioned officer, musician or private, eight dollars per month; and for disabilities of a degree less than the highest, a sum proportionably less.