# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 44

Chap. XLIV.—An Act to provide for the payment of volunteers and militia corps, in the service of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Volunteers and militia to be paid and furnished as provided for the infantry of the United States. That the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers and privates, of volunteer and militia corps, who have been in the service of the United States, at any time since the first day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, or may hereafter be in the service of the United States, shall be entitled to and receive the same monthly pay, rations, clothing or money in lieu thereof, and forage, and be furnished with the same camp equipage, including knapsacks, as are, or may be provided by law for the officers, musicians, artificers and privates, of the infantry of the army of the United States.
Officers of mounted companies, allowances to.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the officers of all mounted companies who have been in, or may hereafter be in, the service of the United States, shall each be entitled to receive forage, or money in lieu thereof, for two horses, when they actually keep private servants, and for one horse when without private servants, and that forty cents per day be allowed for the use and risk of each horse, except horses killed in battle or dying of wounds received in battle. That each non-commissioned officer, musician, artificer and private, of all mounted companies, shall be entitled to receive forage in kind for one horse, with forty cents per day for the use and risk thereof, except horses killed in battle, or dying of wounds received in battle, and twenty-five cents per day in lieu of forage and subsistence, when the same shall be furnished by himself, or twelve and a half cents per day for either as the case may be.
Allowance for travelling.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers and privates, shall be entitled to one day’s pay, subsistence, and other allowances, for every twenty miles’ travel from their places of residence to the place of general rendezvous, and from the place of discharge back to their residence.
Volunteers or militia who may be wounded or disabled.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the volunteers or militia, who have been or may be received into the service of the United States, to suppress Indian depredations in Florida, shall be entitled to all the benefits which are conferred on persons wounded or otherwise disabled in the service of the United States.
Provision for widows, &c. of those who die in the service.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That when any officer, non-commissioned officer, artificer, or private, of said militia or volunteer corps, who shall die in the service of the United States, or returning to his place of residence after being mustered out of service or at any time in consequence of wounds receive in service, and shall 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; and in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of said decedent:Proviso. 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.
What volunteers and militia are included in these provisions.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the volunteers and militia ​mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this act, called into service before its passage, and who are directed to be paid, shall embrace those only ordered into service by the commanding general or Governors of States and the Territory of Florida under authority from the War Department for repressing the hostilities of the Florida Indians.
Approved, March 19, 1836.