Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-04-30
JAMES MADISON.
AN ACT

For the relief of the Officers and Soldiers
who served in the campaign on the Wa
bash.
BE il enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives ofthe United States of
.America in Congress assembled, That the
officers, according to the rank assigned them,
and which they held on the seventh day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and
eleven, the non-comnissioned officers and
soldiers of the volunteers and militia, and
the legal representatives of those who were
killed or died of their wounds, COMPOSING
the army that served in the late campaign
on the Wabash against the hostile Indians,
shall receive the same compensation which
is allowed by law for the militia of the Unit
ed States when called into actual service of
the United States.
Sec. 9. find be ii, further enacted, That the
officers, according to the rank which they
held as aforesaid, the non-commissioned obi
GERS and soldiers, of the volunteers or militia,
who served in the said campaign, and who
were killed ordied of wounds received in said
service, leaving widow, or if no widow, shall
have left 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 Olive 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 re-
mainder 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 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. 8. ind be il further enacted, That
every officer, according to the rank which he
| held as Aforesaid, non commissioned officer
| and private, of the volunteers and militia.
! who served in the said campaign, and who
have been disabled by known wounds receiv-
ed 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 Presi-
| dent of the United States upon satisfactory
| proof of such wound and disability being pro-
duced to the Secretary of War agreeabiy tn
such rules as he may prescribe Provided,
| 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 wound
| ed or disabled, and that the rate of compen-
sation to a non-commissioned officer and pri-
vate, shall never exceed FIVE dollars per
| month and all inferior disabilities shall en-
title 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 higher rate than the half pay
of Lieutenant Colonel.
Sec. H. Ind be IL. further eaucted, That
any person or persons belonging to the said
! army, who may have had a horse or horses
killed during the late battle on the Wabash
therSin, shall be entitled to, and receive the
| value thereof: ProUidcd, That the proof of
| the value of such horse or horses shall be by
affidavit of the Quarter Master OF the corps
to which the owner may have belonged, or
of two other creditable witnesses.
Sec. S. Ind be K.frther enacted, That
| TO the heirs or legal representatives Of every
| person who was killed, and to every person
] who was wounded in the said campaign, who