New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-28
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| cfease the pay 81 tia rank and file of the army
and to encourage enlisSments,s = the following 4
instructions are published for the information
and guidance Of oil concerned
This act takes effect from Its date, and in
creases the pay Of the non commissio officers,
musicians and privatas Of the army Of the
United States. ID description which includes all
enlisted men except those of the Ordnance De
partment,) four dollars per month over the
rates to Which they were entitled BY previous
laws One dollar per month Of the pay Of the
private soldier il. however, still To DO retained
I'LL the expiration Of his term Of service, in
conformity with the fifth CLAUSE q the supple
mentary act Of July Z, 1888.
= Every enlisted soldier in service at the
passage Of the act, and subsequently receiving
an honorable discharge on the completion oil his
term Of enlistment, who shall, within one month
thereafter, re-enlist In the army, shall be enti-
tied to two dollars per month in addition to the
ordinary pay Of his grade, for the first period Of
| five years after the expiration Of his previous
enlistment, and 4 further sum Of enc dollar per
month for each successive period Of 1--WE years,
| so long as he shall remain continuously in the
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g. Soldiers honorably discharged before the
passage Of the act, but who re-entered service
within enc month after their discharge and the
date Of the act, are entitled, from the date of
Isuch re-entry, to two dollars per month III addi-
ton to the ordinary pay Of their grade.
4, Soldiers In the army at the date of the
act, who have served one or more enlistments
and been honorably discharged, are entitled to
the two dollars per month in addition to the
ordinary pay Of their grade, from the date Of
| the passage of the act &. I l ssl.s
| 8. Every on-commissioned officer, musician,
or private soldier who may re-enlist into his
company or regiment, under the conditions ex
pressed in the 18th seetionsof the act Of July 5,
1888, VIZ; 4 within two months before Or one
month after the expiration Of his term Of ser
vice., is still entitled to the three months extra
pay provided by said act. The Sc three months
extra pay" County thus allowed, is the ordina-
pay Of the grade in which the soldier was sery-
| ing when discharged. M
D: The serving out OF each enlistment entered
Into under the 29th section of the act Of July s.
1888, above cited, is to be counted as FIVE years
service within the meaning of the I'd section Of
| the act Of Augusta 1854
I 4, II an enlistment or re.enlistment be made
at Or IN the vicinity Of heremote military posts,
under the conditions Of the Sd section Of the act
Of June II, 1850, the soldier is also entitled to
| the bounty provided by that act, the amount to
be paid to him in unequal installments at the
end Of each years service, and in the proper
tons fixed by the regulation Of June ~, 1850.
q Soldiers who received q Certificate Of Merit
| for distinguished services in the war with Next
co, as we'll as those now in the army as those
that may hereafter enlist, are allowed the two
dollars per month to which that certificate would
have entitled them had they remained continu-
onsly in the service. Where the service has
been continuous, the pay commences from the.
date OF the engagement in which the certificate
was won; where the soldier has been out of SER
wee, but was in the army at the passage of the
law, he is entitled to the extra pay from August
4, 1854, the date Of the act; in all other cases,
the pay will commence from the date Of enlist
ment.
8. The rule recited in the foregoing paragraph
is applicable also to those non commissioned Off
GERS who, under the authority of the 18th section
Of the act Of March 8, 1847, were recommended
for promotion by brevet to the lowest grade Of
commissioned officer, but did not receive the
| benefit Of that provision. A list Of the nom
commissioned officers embraced in this descrip-
l tion will be published hereafter.
TO- The 9th section of the act of Aug. A, 1854,
increasing the allowance to soldiers employed
| at work on Notifications, in surveys, in cutting
roads, and other constant labor of not less than
ten days, substitute for the act of March 2,
1919, on the same subject, which it entirely
supersedes. Accordingly the extra gill Of
1 whisky or spirits heretofore allowed to the
army when employed on fatigue duty, is discon-
tinued. Enlisted men employed as iahorers and
Transfers East Of the Rocky Mountains, are now
/ entitled to an extra compensation of twenty-five
cents per day and when employed as mechan-
lcs to forty cents; at all posts West Of those
mountains, the corresponding rates are thirty
i've cents per day, respectively.
l IL. 1t is particularly enjoined on all COM
handing officers to see that the muster rolls
embrace all the data necessary to ensure justice
TO the soldier, and to guide the paymaster in
making his payments. Thus, when men are
entitled to the benefits Of the I'd section Of the
act Of August A, 1864, the following remarks
should be placed opposite thoir names g $2 pr.
mo. for former services the expression g for
mer services being used to designate the whole
period Of the soldiers service prior to the date
Of the act. If he be entitled to ST additional
for resnlisting subsequent to its date, the re-
mark will then be, g ~ pr. mo for former ser
vices, and 81 for resnlisting;" for a second
resnlistment, |" ~ pr. mo for former services,
and ~ for ID re-enlistment,'' etc, For soldiers
coming under the provisions Of the Sd and 18th
sections Of the act, note as follows: s$s2 pr. mo-
for cert merit; g ~ pr. mo- for previous SER
vices, $9 for cert. merit, and 81 for re-enlist-
ing, ETC., according 10 the facts Of the case
The bounty Of g three months extra pay (, al
lowed for re-enlistments under the Goth section
Of the act Of July s, 1898, is not to be entered
on the muster roll, as this bounty paid by the
recruiting officer, and net by the paymaster !;
but installments of bounty due for enlistments
made under the provisions Of the Sd section Of
the act Of June IL, 1850, will be noted as fol-
lows; 9. 10, Cor !, 1-6, or i, according to its
being the installment due for the LIST, I'd, 3D., or
4th years seryice,) Ret'd bounty due
the regulation amount Of the bounty to be spe.
cited, The installment for the fifth years SER
vice will be thus noted; = v Ret'd bounty
($--) due s3
Il The pay certificates given to soldiers at the
time Of their discharge must also clearly set
forth the extra allowances to which they are
entitled. - &
i By order Of the Secretary of War.
s. CooPER, Adjutant General.
An eminent minister at Norwich made sud-
| den pause in his sermon; the congregation were
panic-struck. Having rivetted their attention,
he addressed himself BY name TO gentleman in
the gallery, g Has that poor man who stands at