Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-23
INCREASED PAY TO SOLDIERS.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 10.

~ ~ Washington, September II, 1854.
Inquiries having been made by several commanding
officers in regard to the construction of various points
the act approved August A, 1884, "to increase the pay
Of the rank and file of the army and to encourage enlist
ments the following instructions published for the
information and guidance Of oil concerned:
L. The takes effect from its date and increases the
pay of the non-commissoned officers musicians and pri
Yates of the army of the United States Ia description
which includes all enlisted except those of the Ord
nance Department. four dollars per month the rates
to which they entitled by previous laws One dol
lar per month Of the pay Of the private soldier is how
ever still TO be retained till the expiration of his
service in conformity with the fifth clause Of the sup
Elementary act of July Z, 1885,
2 Every enlisted soldier in service at the passage OF
the act and subsequently, receiving honorable dis
charge on the completion of his term Of enlistment who
shall, within month thereafter re-enst in the army
shall be entitled to two dollars per month"; in addition
the ordinary pay of his grade for the first period of
years after the expiration of his previous enlistment and
further sum of dollar per month for each successive
period OF five years. long he shall remain conau-
ously in the array
Soldiers honoraby discharged before the passage of
the act, but who entered service within month
after their discharge and the date of the act entitled
from the date of such reentry to dollars per month
In addition to the ordinary pay of their grade.
Soldiers in the army the date of the act who have
served enlisments and been honoraby dis
charged entitled TO the two dollars per month in adj
dtion to the ordinary pay Of their grade from the date
5. Every non-commissioned officer musician, or pri-
vate soldier who may reenlis into his company or reg
en under the conditions expressed in the Goth section
of the act of July g. 1888 viz within two months be-
fore or month after the expiration Of his of
vice. is still entitled to the three months extra pay pro-
vided by said act The :" three months extra pay"
bounty thus allowed is the ordinary pay of the grade
In which the soldier serving when discharged
o. The serving out of each enlistment entered into
der the 18th section of the of July 81 1885, above
cited is to be counted as five years service within the
meaning OF the I'd section Of the act Of August 1854
Z. II an enlistment establishment be made at or
in the vicinity OF the remote military posts under the
conditions of the Sd section Of the act of June H. 1885,
the soldier is also entitled to the bounty provided by that
actthe amount to be paid to him in equal insalments
at the end of each years service and in the proportions
fixed by the regulation of June %, 1850.
O. Soldiers who received certificate of merit for dis
tingushed services in the with Mexico well those
now In tho army rs those who may hereafter enlist
allowed the two dollars per month to which that certf-
cate would have entitled them had they remained connu-
ousy in the service Where the service has been con-
hnuous the pay from the date of the engage
ment in which the certificate where the soldier
has been out of service but in the army the pas
sage of the law he is entitled to the extra pay from Au
gust 1854, the date of the act In all other the
pay will commence from the date of enlistment
g. The rule recited in the foregoing is appi
cable also to those noncommssoned officers who under
the authority of the 18th section of the OF March g.
047 we're recommended for promotion by brevet to the
lowest grades OF commissioned officers, but did
ceive the benefit of that provision Ais of the
mssioned officers embraced in this description will be
published hereafter
TO- The sixth section of the of August f. 1854 in
creasing the allowance to soldiers employed work on
Qualifications, in surveys, in cutting roads, and other
slant labor Of not less than days. is substitute for
the act Of March 2 l8l9 on the subject which it
entirely supersedes Accordingly, the extra gill Of
whiskey spirits heretofore allowed to the army when
employed fatigue duty is discontinued Enlisted men
employed as aborers and teamsers posts of tho
Rocky Mountains are now entitled to extra-compensa
da opdvv
mechanics to forty cents At all posts west of those
tans the corresponding thirty five cents and
fifty cents per day. respectively.
H. 1t is particularly enoined all commanding off,
GERS to that the musterros embrace all data ne
cessay to insure justice to the soldier and to guide
paymaster in making his payments. Thus, when men
are entd to the benefits Of the second section of the
act of August A. 1854 the following remarks should be
placed opposite their $50 pr. mo. for former
services; the expression formar services being used
to designate the whole period of the soldiers service prior
to the date Of the act he be entitled 81 additional
for reensting subsequent to its date the remark will
then be- 80 pr mo. for former services and 81 for
enistng; for second re.enlisment, SO pr. for
former services and So for second reenlistment, &c.
For solers coming under the provisions of the 3D. and
4th sections Of the act note follows 1872 pr for
cert mert;" So pr. for previous services So for
cert merit, and 81 for re-enlisting" &c., according to
the facts of the The bounty of three months
extra pay" allowed for re-enlisments under the 29h
section Of the act of July g. 1885, is not to be entered
on the muserrol this bounty is paid by the recruit
ing ocer and not by the paymaser but instruments Of
bounty due for enstmens made under the provisions of
the Sd section of the act of June IL 1850 viii be noted
as follows Onetenth Tor ne-eighth one-sixth or one
fourth according to its being the nsament due for the
first second third fourth years servce retd bounty
($-) due;" the regulation amount Of the bounty to
be specified The instament for the fifth years service
will be thus noted: g. retd bounty IS 10y due'
The pay certificate given to soldiers the time Of their
discharge must also clearly set forth the extra allowances
to which they are entitled
BY order Of the SECRETARY OF WAR:
s. COOPER Adjutant General.