ADDENDA.

Provisions selected while this work was going through the press, but too late for insertion in their appropriate places.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

STATUTES AT LARGE.

Act of March 16, 1802 (2 Stats., 132).

AN ACT fixing the military establishment of the United States.

SEC. 5. That the commissioned officers aforesaid shall be entitled to receive, for their daily subsistence, the following number of rations. of provisions: a colonel, six rations; a lieutenant-colonel, five rations; a major, four rations; a captain, three rations; a lieutenant, two rations; or money in lieu thereof at the option of the said at the posts respectively where the rations shall

officers

become due;

AN ACT making further provision for the Army of the United States, and for other purposes.

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SEC. 4. That the President is hereby authorized to confer brevet rank on such officers of the Army as shall distinguish themselves by gallant actions or meritorious conduct, or who shall have served ten years in any one grade..

March 3, 1845 (5-732).—Franking privilege abolished; accounts for official postage to be paid from contingent fund of the bureau to which the officer belongs. By Joint Resolution No. 13, of same date (5–800), this act was declared to take effect July 1, 1845, and not sooner.

Act of March 3, 1863 (12 Stats., 731).

AN ACT for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes.

SEC. 31. That any officer absent from duty with leave, except for sickness or wounds, shall, during his absence, receive half of the pay and allowances prescribed by law, and no more.

Act of June 20, 1864 (13 Stats., 144).

AN ACT to increase the pay of soldiers in the United States Army, and for other purposes.

SEC. 11. That the thirty-first section of an 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,

leave of absence for other cause than sickness or wounds without deduction from his pay or allowances: Provided, That the aggregate of such absence shall not exceed thirty days in any one year.

AN ACT to increase and fix the military peace establishment of the United States.

SEC. 34. That all officers who have served during the rebellion as volunteers in the armies of the United States, and who have been or may hereafter be honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, shall be entitled to bear the official title, and upon occasions of ceremony to wear the uniform of the highest grade they have held by brevet or other commissions in the volunteer service. In case of officers of the Regular Army the volunteer rank shall be entered upon the official army register: Provided, That these privileges shall not entitle any officer to command, pay, or emoluments.

March 2, 1867 (14-434).—The act of June 20, 1864 (13-144), increasing the pay of enlisted men, not to be construed as to increase the emoluments of the commissioned officers at the date of its passage. The first section of the act of March 3, 1865 (13–487), relative to officers' servants, not intended to be retrospective or retroactive in its operation.

Act of July 11, 1868 (15 Stats., 85.)

AN ACT prescribing an oath of office to be taken by persons from whom legal disabilities shall have been removed.

That whenever any person who has participated in the late rebellion has been or shall be appointed to any office or place of trust in or under the Government of the United States, he shall, before entering upon the duties thereof, instead of the oath prescribed by the act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation:

I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Act of May 8, 1874 (18 Stats., 43).

AN ACT to amend the thirty-first section of an act entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national militia, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

That all officers on duty at any point west of a line drawn north and south through Omaha city, and north of a line drawn east and west upon the southern boundary of Arizona, shall be allowed sixty days' leave of absence without deduction of pay or allowances: Provided, That the same is taken but once in two years: And provided further, That the leave of absence may be extended to three months, if taken once only in three years; or four months if taken once only in four years.

Act of July 29, 1876 (19 Stats., 102).

AN ACT to amend an act approved May eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in regard to leave of absence of Army officers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act approved May eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in regard to leave of absence of Army officers, be, and the same is hereby, so amended that all officers on duty shall be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, sixty days' leave of absence without deduction of pay or allowance: Provided, That the same be taken once in two years: And provided further, That the leave of absence may be extended to three months, if taken once only in three years, or four months if taken once only in four years.

This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

SEC. 1205. Line officers may be transferred to the staff without prejudice to their rank or promotion in the line; when they become entitled to a regimental grade equal to that they hold in the staff, they must vacate either commission.

SEC. 1209. The President may confer brevet commissions for distinguished conduct and public service in presence of the enemy.

SEC. 1218. No person who has served in any capacity in the military, naval, or civil service of the so-called Confederate States, or of either of the States in insurrection during the late rebellion, shall be appointed to any position in the Army of the United States.

SEC. 1226. All officers who have served during the rebellion as volunteers in the Army of the United States, and have been honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, shall be entitled to bear the official title, and upon occasions of ceremony to wear the uniform of the highest grade they have held, by brevet or other commissions, in the volunteer service. The highest volunteer rank which has been held by officers of the Regular Army shall be entered, with their names respectively, upon the Army Register.

SEC. 1756. Every person

in the

appointed to any office of honor

military

or profit service shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, and before being entitled to any part of the salary or other emoluments thereof, take and subscribe the following oath: "I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States hostile or inimical thereto, and I further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God." SEC. 1757. Whenever any person who is not able, on account of his participation in the late rebellion, to take the oath prescribed in the preceding section, he shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe in lieu of that oath the following oath: "I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God."

Fourth. No person belonging to the Army

shall be elected

to or hold any civil office or appointment in any Territory.

SEC. 3683. No part of the contingent fund appropriated to any bureau to be applied to the purchase of any articles except such as the head of the Department shall, in writing, direct to be procured.

Act of June 23, 1879 (21 Stats., 30).

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.

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Provided, That no allowance shall be made for claims for quarters for servants heretofore or hereafter; and that the rate of commutation shall hereafter be twelve dollars per room per month for officers' quarters, in lieu of ten dollars, as now provided by law.

Provided, That to the cost of all stores and other articles sold to officers and men, except tobacco, as provided for in section one

thousand one hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, ten per centum shall be added to cover wastage, transportation, and other incidental charges.

Act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stats., 456).

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and for other purposes.

From and after the passage of this act, mileage to officers of the Army shall be computed over the shortest usually traveled routes between the points named in the order, and the necessity for such travel in the military service shall be certified to by the officer issuing the order, and stated in said order.

Act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stats., 567).

AN ACT to amend section eighteen hundred and sixty of the Revised Statutes so as not to exclude retired Army officers from holding civil office in the Territories.

That the fourth clause of section eighteen hundred and sixty of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

shall be

"Fourth. No person belonging to the Army elected to or hold any civil office or appointment in any Territory, except officers of the Army on the retired list."

Act of May 13, 1884 (23 Stats., 21).

AN ACT amending the Revised Statutes of the United States in respect of official oaths, and for other purposes.

That section twelve hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 1218. No person who held a commission in the Army or Navy of the United States at the beginning of the late rebellion, and afterwards served in any capacity in the military, naval, or civil service of the so-called Confederate States, or of either of the States in insurrection during the late rebellion, shall be appointed to any position in the Army of the United States."

SEC. 2. That section seventeen hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and hereafter the oath to be taken by any person appointed to any office of honor or profit. military service, except the President of the United States, shall be as prescribed in section seventeen hundred and fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes.

in the

Act of February 4, 1897 (29 Stats., 511).

AN ACT to authorize officers who served during the war of the rebellion in the Regular Army to bear the title and, on occasions of ceremony, wear the uniform of their highest rank.

That all officers who have served during the rebellion as officers of the Regular Army of the United States, and have been honorably discharged or resigned from the service, shall be entitled to bear the official title and, upon occasions of ceremony, to wear the uniform of the