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PAY OF CERTAIN ARMY OFFICERS.
WAR DEPARTMENT,)
ADJuTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
WASHINGToS, April u 1884.
General Orders, No. 1853.
The following act Of Congress is published Tor
the Information Of all concerned:
PuBLIc, No. a.
An act to amend section nine Of the act approved
July II, Ise2, entitled IAN act to define the pay
and emoluments OF certain officers of the Army
and for other purposes"
Be enacted BY he Senate and House Of ReprIFnie.
HVsI ofhe United STATES Of America In Corsrrr as
ssmbled, That the rank Of Chaplain, without com.
mAhd, In the regular and volunteer service OF the
United States, Ia hereby recognized. ChaplAlns
shall be borne the field and staff rolls next after
the Surgeons, and shall wear such uniforG as Ii or
may be prescribed by the Army Regulations, and
shall be subject to the same rules and regulations
as other Officers Of the Army They shan be en-
titled to draw forage for two horses, and when
assigned to hospitals, posts, aud forts, they shall
| be entitled to quarters and fuel within the hos
pitfalls, posts or forts, while they are assigned,
without the privilege Of Communication, subject to
the same conditions and limitations a. are now BY
law provided In the ease OF Surgeons. When Ab-
sent from duty with leave, or on account OF sick.
ness or other disability, or when held by the enemy
As prisoners, they shall be subject to no other
diminution OF loss Of pay and allowances than
other ofneers In the military service are undef
like circumstances. And ChAplAins who have been
absent from duty by reason OF wounds or sickness,
or when held az prisoners Ii the hands OF the
enemy shall be entitled to receive full pay, with.
out rations, during such absence. In all other re.
Speets the pay Of ChAplainS shall be the same a.
now provided by law.
Sec. Q. And be Il further enacted That the act ap.
proved July H. 1884, entitled An act to grant PEN
sionB, 10 hereby so mended az to include Chap
| lAinH In the regular and volunteer forces Of the
Army: Provided That the pension to which a
Chaplain shall be entitled for total disability
shall be twenty dollars per month, and all the FRO.
visions OF the act to which this section II an
amendment shall apply to and embrace the
widows, Iehildren, mothers, and sisters OF Chap.
lAins OF the land forces who have died since the
eth day OF March, 1851, or .hAlI die OF wounds or
disease contracted in the service Of the United
Staten, and while such ChAplains are, or shall be,
In the line OF their duty.
Soc. .. And Be further enacted, That 1t shall be
the duty Of ChAplAins in the military service OF
the United States TO make monthly reports to the
AdJutAnt General Of the Army, through the ususl
military channels, of the moral condition and gen
erAl history Of the regiments, hospitals or post
to which they may be attached and It shall be tn,
, duty OF all commanders Of regiments, hospitals
and posts to render such facilities a. will aid In
the discharge Of the duties assigned to them by
the Government.
Sec. T. and be Il hIJfhtT enacted, That all Chap
lains In the military service OF the United Slater
shall hold appropriate religious services at the
burial OF soldiers who may die in the command "a
which they are assigned to duty, and 1t shall b
their duty to hold public religious services at least
once each Sabbath, when practicable
Approved, April 0, 1854.
By order ofthe Secretary Of War
| Apn Assistant AdlutAnt General.