Trru: xvi.-THE MILITIA. 289 _ Sec. 1653. The officers of all mounted companies in the militia called F<>¤¤8<= wd ¤¤<·= into the service of the United States shall each be entitled to receive °f h°”°*’· forage, or money in lieu thereof, for two horses when they actually kee 2Jan.,1795, c. 9, private servants, and for one horse when without private servants, and ¤· 2r V- li P- 408- orty cents per day shall be allowed for the use and risk of each horse, ex- 4419 giarg 183?· °· cept horses killed in battle or dying of wounds received in battle. Each ’s` ’V` ’p' ' non-commissioned officer, musician, artificer, and private of such mounted companies shall be entitled to receive forage in kind for one horse, with forty cents per day for the use and risk thereof, except horses killed in batt e, or dying o wounds received in battle, and twenty-five cents per day in lieu of forage and subsistence, when the same is furnished by himself, or twelve and a half cents per day for either, as the case may be. Sec. 1654. The expenses incurred by marching the militia of any State E x pens e s of or Territory to their places of rendezvous, in pursuance of a requisition ¤*¤*‘¤l¤ *9 1'¤¤d¢¤· of the President, or of a call made by the authorit of any State or Ter- Yu? ritory and approved by him, shall be adjusted and, paid in like manner 28 Feb., 1795, c. as the expenses incurred after their arrival at such places of rendezvous, 36· "· 14%*24- on the requisition of the President; but this provision does not authorize 842$’§p"lj,£18*°‘ any species of expenditure, previous to arriving at the lace of rendez- ’’p` ` vous, which is not provided y existing laws to be paid) for after their arrival at such lace of rendezvous. Sec. 1655. VlPhen the militia in the military service of the United States _ Addition to raare employed on the western frontiers, there shall be allowed two ounces of l‘°”·g gg ___ Hour or bread, and two ounces of beef or pork, in addition to each of their 2J an., 1795, c. 9, rations,and half a pint of salt, in addition to every hundred of their rations. - 6. v- 1. p- 409- Sec. 1656. When any officer, non-commissioned officer, artiticer, or Provision for rivate of the militia or volunteer corps dies i_n the service of the United widows, &q·, pi States, or in returning to his place of residence after being mustered out :,l;g“:m_‘;l‘° dw ‘“ of service, or at any time in consequence of wounds received in service, -___°L.__ and leaves a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen. 19 M¤¤‘·»1836»<=- years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be 4* “· 5· "· 5· P· 7· entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled, at the time of his death, during the term of five years; and in case of the death or intermarriage of suc widow before the expiration of five years, the half-pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of the decedent. And the Secretary of the Interior shall adopt such forms of evidence, in applications under this section as the President may prescribe. V , t & Sec. 1657. The volunteers or militia, who have been received into the to as “';0;’QS,;di;; service of the United States. to su press Indian depredations in Florida, (,,,,,:2;,,,,;,,,,,, i,, shall be entitled to all the benefits wlhich are conferred on persons wounded Florida; benefits or otherwise disabled in the service of the United States. to- 19 Mar., 1836, c. 44, s. 4, v. 5, p. 7. Sec. 1658. Courts-martial for the trial of militia shall be composed of Courts-martial, militia officers only. MW °°mP°°°fl_;_ 28 Feb., 1795, c. 36, s. 6, v, l, p. 424. 29 July, 1861, c. 25, s. 5,v. 12, p. 282. Sec. 1659. All fines assessed under the provisions of law concerning Fines assessed, the militia or volunteer corps, when called into the actual service of the h°Wl°° be l°“°d- United States, shall be certified by the presiding officer of the court-mar- 28 Feb., 1795, c, tial, before whom they are assessed, to the marshal of the district in which 36. s. 7, v. 1, p. 424. the delinquent resides, or to one of his deputies, and to the Comptroller- ,82811***:;- 21813,92 of the Treasury, who shall record the certificate in a book to be kept for JQ,,;,, jgé}, cj that urpose. The marshal or his deputy shall forthwith proceed to levy 25, s. 6,v. 12, p. 282. the filfies with costs, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the delin uent, which costs and the manner of proceeding, with respect to the salle of the goods distrained, shall be agreeable to the laws of the State in which the same may be in other cases of distress. And where any non-commissioned officer or private is adjudged to suffer imprisonment, there bein no oods or chattels to be found whereof to lerly the fines, the marshal of die district or his deputy shall commit such clinquent to jail, during the term for which e is so adjudged to imprisonment, or until the fine is paid, in the same manner as other persons mn-
