and that the collection district shall be and remain as thereby established.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and be in force from and after the thirtieth day of April, eighteen hundred and twelve.
Approved, April 8, 1812.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LIII.—An Act in addition to the act entituled “An act to raise an additional military force,” passed January the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is empowered to cause to be enlisted for the term of eighteen months, unless sooner discharged, such part of the light dragoons, artillery and infantry, authorized to be act, entituledAct of Jan. 11, 1812, ch. 14. “An act to raise an additional military force,” as he may deem expedient: Provided, the whole number, so to be enlisted for eighteen months, shall not exceed fifteen thousand, any thing in the said act recited to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, so to be enlisted, shall be entitled to the bounty of sixteen dollars, and the same pay, clothing and rations, the same provisions for wounds or disabilities, and to all other allowances (the bounty in land excepted) provided by the said before recited act, for the non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, who may be raised under the same, and shall be held to perform the same duties, and be subject to the same rules and regulations.
Approved, April 8, 1812.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LIV.—An Act for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the late campaign on the Wabash.
Officers and soldiers to receive compensation as allowed to militia called into actual service.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers, according to the rank assigned them by Governor Harrison, and which they held on the seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the volunteers and militia, and the legal representatives of those who were killed or died of their wounds, composing the army that served in the late late campaign on the Wabash against the hostile Indians, shall receive the same compensation which is allowed by law to the militia of the United States when called into the actual service of the United States.
Pensions to wounded officers and soldiers and to the families of such as were killed.
In case of death or marriage of widow, half pension to go to children under sixteen years.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the officers, according to the rank which they held as aforesaid, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers, of the volunteers or militia, who served in the said campaign, and who were killed or died of wounds received in said service, leaving a widow, or if no widow, shall have left a child or children, under the age of sixteen years, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to, and receive the half of the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, or receiving the wound of which he died, for and during the term of five years; and in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the term of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer or soldier, whilst under the age of sixteen years; and in like manner the allowance to the child or children of such deceased, where there is no widow, shall be paid no longer than while there is a child or children under the
