Number of subalterns to a companySec. 7. And be it further enacted, That to each company of said ten regiments there may be appointed the same number of subaltern officers as are provided by existing laws for the companies of volunteers whose term shall expire as provided in the fifth section of the act of eleventh of February eighteen hundred and forty-seven.1847, ch 8.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act approved May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "An 1846, ch 17. Act to authorize an Increase of the Rank and File of the Army of the United States," be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the regiment of mounted ridemen authorized by the act of the Mounted riflemenninth [nineteenth] of May, eighteen hundred and forty-six.1846, ch 22.
Teamsters for the regiments of dragoons, artillery and mounted rifiemen Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That to each regiment of of dragoons, artillery, and mounted riflemen, in the regular army, there shall be added one principal teamster, with the rank and compensation of quartermaster-sergeant, and to each company of the same two teamsters, with the compensation of artificers.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the proviso to the second Lieutenants holding the appointments of adjutant and regimental quartermaster.section of the act approved March second, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, entitled "An Act giving further Compensation to the Captains and Subalterns of the Army of the United States, in certain Cases," shall be so interpreted as not to include lieutenants who hold the appointments of adjutant and regimental quartermaster. 1827, ch. 42.
Sutlers to have no liens on pay of soldiers, &c. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That so much of any army regulation as gives to any sutler a lien upon any part of the pay of the soldiers, or a right to appear at the pay table to receive the soldier's pay from the paymaster, shall be, and the same is hereby, abrogated; and all regulations extending the rights and privileges of sutlers beyond the rules and articles of war shall be, and hereby are, abrogated.
Two deputy paymster-generals, and ten paymasters to be appointed Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to add to the pay department of the army two deputy paymaster-generals, with the pay, and allowances, each of a deputy quartermaster-general, and ten paymasters, with the pay and allowances each of a paymaster of the army; and the officers so appointed shall give such bonds as the President shall, from time to time, direct: Provided, That the deputy paymaster-generals shall, in Proviso. addition to paying troops, superintend the payment of armies in the field.
Rank of officers of the pay department. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the officers of the pay department shall have rank corresponding with the rank to which their pay and allowances are assimilated: Proviso. Provided, That paymasters shall not in virtue, of such rank, be entitled to command in the line, or other staff departments of the army: Provided, also, That the right to command in the pay department, between officers having the same rank, shall be in favor of the oldest in service in the department, without regard to the date of commission under which they may be acting at the time.
Paymasters of volunteers to be nominated to the Senate Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That all paymasters hereafter to be appointed by the President for the volunteer service of the United States shall be nominated to the Senate for confirmation to such office.
Bounty to the regiment of dragoons Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the regiment of dragoons authorized to be raised by an act entitled "An Act to raise for a limited 1847, ch. 8.Time an additional military Force and for other Purposes," shall receive the same bounty as is allowed to the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the other regiments authorized to be raised by said act.
