Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-20

Gilliou, have rendered their designations to
the Secretary of the Navy. We should not
be surprised if it turns out that all these off
GERS have lately been ordered to duty not at
present compatible with their respective
tastes. So the world wags, unfortunately. The
Secretary is earning the thanks of all who ap-
preciste the Importance of insisting that there
shall be no favoritism in allotting the naval
officers of the United States to service
Increase Of the Pay Of the Rank and File
Of the Army.-The following General Order
explains how the various provisions Of the
new law on this subject are TO be administered
by the authorities here. 1t is worthy of gen.
eral attention; more especially the attention
of persons disposed to enter the service:
GENERAL oRDERs,) WAR DEPARTMENT.
}ADJUrANT Generals OFFICE,
No. l6, Washington, Sep IA 1854.
Inquiries having been made by several COM
handing officers in regard to the construction
of various points of the act approved August
1854, ''to increase the pay of the rank and
file of the army, and to encourage enlist
ments,'' the following instructions are pub
ished for the information and guidance of all
concerned
The act takes effect from its date, and in
creases the pay of the nOn-commissiOned Off
GERS. musicians, and privates of the army Of
The United States, "a description which in
cludes all enlisted men except those of the
Ordnance DEPARTMENT. 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 is, however, still to
be retained till the expiration of his term of
service, in conformity with the fifth clause of
the supplementary act of July 7, 1888.
2. Every enlisted soldier in service at the
passage of the act, and subsequently receiving
an honorable discharge on the completion OF
his term of enlistment, who shall. within one
month thereafter, enlist in the army, shalt
be entitled to two dollars per month in add
ton to the ordinary pay of his grade, for the
first period of five years after the expiration
Of his previous enlistment, and further sum
of one dollar per month for each successive
period of five years, so long as he shall re.
main continuously in the army
8. Soldiers honOrably discharged before the
passage of the act, but who re ente, ed service
within ono month after their discharge and
he date of the act, are entitled, from the date
of such re entry, to two dollars per month in
addition to the ordinary pay of their grrde
Soldiers in the army ut the date of the
act who have served one or more enlistme nts
| and been bonorabIy 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
8. livery non commissioned officer, musician
or private soldier who may 70 enlist into his
company or regiment, under the conditions
expressed in the 29th section of the act of
July .. 1888, viz: within two months befor 9
or one month after the expiration of his term
OF service," is still entitled to the three months
extra pay provided by said act The three
months extra pay" bounty, thus allowed, is
the ordinary pay of the grade in which the
soldier was serving when DISCHARGED
D. The serving out of each enlistment en-
tered into under the Goth section of the act of
July 5, 1888, above cited. is to be counted as
five years service within the meaning of the
Il section of the act of August 4, 1854
I. If an enlistment or establishment be
made at, or in the vicinity of, the remote mil,
itary posts, under the conditions of the 81 sec
ion of tho 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 equal In
ailments at the end of each year service, aud
in the proportions fixed by the Regulation of
June q. 1850.
8. Soldiers who received Certificate of
Merit for distinguished services in the war with
Mexico, as we'll those now in tho army as those
that may hereafter enlist, are allowed the two
would have entitled them had they remained
continuously in the service. Where the ser
vice has been continuous, the pay commences
from the date OF the engagement in which the
certificate was won whore the soldier as been
out of service, but was in the army at the a.
sage Of the law, he is entitled to the extra nav
frem August 4, 1854, the date of the act in
all other cases, the pay will commence from
the date of enlistment.
U Tho r,,lo rao;faI ~ bo
graph is applicable also to those nom commits.
stoned officers who, under the authority of the
18th section of the act of March 3, 1917, were
grade Of ns BY brsyet to the
not receive the benefit Of that provision.
lis: Of the non commi ssioned officers embraced
in this description will be punished hereafter.
10 The 9th section of the act of August 4.
1854 increasing the allowance to soldiers en-
ployed at work on Notifications, in SURVEYS. in
cutting roads, and other constant labor. of
not less than ten days, is a substitute for the
act of March 2, 1919, on the same subject.
which it entirely supercedes ACCORDINGLY.
the " extra gill of whisky, or spirits" hereto
fore allowed to the army when employed on
fatigue duty, il discontinued Enlisted men
employed as labOrers and teamsters ct posis
east of the Rocky Mountains, arc now entitled
10 an extra compensation of twenty-five cents
per day; and whom employed as mechanics
to forty cents at all posts west of those noun.
tains, the corresponding rates are thirty-tve
cents and fifty conts per day, respectively.
ii. 1t is partic llsrly epjoined ON all .om-
manding officers to see that the muster-rol,s
embrace all the data necessary to insure JUS
tice to the soldier and to guide the paymaster
in making his payments. Thus, when men
are entitled to the benefits of the 81 section of
the act of Aug. 4. 1854, the following remarks
should be placed opposite their names . 81 Or.
mo for former services, the expression 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 81
additional for re- enisting subsequent to lis
date, the remark will then be, ''$2 pr mo for
former services, and 81 for re-enlisting :" for
Il second re-enlistment, 81 pr. mo for former
services, and 81 for second re enlistment.
&c. For soldiers coming under the provisions
of the Sd and 4th sections of the act, note as
follows: go pr mo. for cert merit; :" "$2
pr mo. for previous services 81 for cert mer.
it, and 81 for re- enlisting,'' &c, according to
the facts of the case. The bounty of three
months extra pay' allowed for re- enlistmepts
under the Goth section of the act of July 5,
1888, is not to be entered on the muster roll,
as this bounty is paid by the recruiting officer
and not by the paymaster; but installments
Of bounty due for enlIstments made under the
provisions of the Sd section of tho act of June
IT, 1850, will be noted as follows: one tenth
Tor one eighth, ore sixth, or one fourth. &C.
cordins to its being the installment due for the
first. second, third, or fourth years service,)
ret'd bounty s. due"-the regulation
amount Of the bounty to be specified The
instsllmsnt for the fifth years service will be
thus noted "S ret'd houptv Il \