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TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 133, 134. 1834.
Act of July 6,1812, ch. 137.
Act of April16, 1818, ch. 64.
Proviso.
Conflicting actsrepealed.
authorizes the President to confer brevet rank on such officers of the armyor of the marine corps, as shall have served ten years in any one grade,shall be, and the same hereby is, repealed; and so much of the secondsection of an act passed the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hun-dred and eighteen, entitled “An act regulating the pay and emolumentsof brevet officers,” as may be applicable to the clause herein above re-pealed, shall be, and the same hereby is, also repealed: Provided, No-thing herein shall affect any right already acquired by ten years’ expiredservice to brevet rank.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts in-consistent with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby,repealed.
Approved, June 30, 1834.
Statute I.June 30, 1834.
Appointmentof surgeons andassistants.
Pay and emo-luments.
Increase ofrations after tenyears’ service.
Statute I.June 30, 1S34.
Act of June28,1832,ch.151,prolonged forfive years.
Proviso.
Chap. CXXXIII.— Jin Ad to increase and regulate the pay of the surgeons andassistant surgeons of the army.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the pass-ing of this act, no person shall receive the appointment of assistant sur-geon in the army of the United States , unless he shall have been ex-amined and approved by an army medical board, to consist of not lessthan three surgeons or assistant surgeons, who shall be designated forthat purpose by the Secretary of War; and no person shall receive theappointment of surgeon in the army of the United States , unless heshall have served at least five years as an assistant surgeon, and unless,also, he shall have been examined by an army medical board consti-tuted as aforesaid.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the surgeons in the army ofthe United States shall be entitled to receive the pay and emolumentsof a major; and the assistant surgeons, who shall have served five years,shall be entitled to receive the pay and emoluments of a captain; andthose who shall have served less than five years, the pay and emolumentsof a first lieutenant; and that said assistant surgeons shall be entitled toreceive the same allowance for forage as they are at present entitled to.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every surgeon and assistantsurgeon, who shall have served faithfully ten years in these grades, re-spectively, shall be entitled to receive an increase of rations, per day,equal to the number of rations to which he may be entitled under this act.
Approved, June 30, 1834.
Chap. CXXXIV.— An Act concerning naval pensions, and the navy pension fund.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That all the provisions andbenefits of the act of the twenty-eighth of June, one thousand eight hun-dred and thirty-two, entitled “An act further to extend the pension here-tofore granted to the widows of persons killed, or who died in the navalservice,” be continued for another term of five years to all those widowswho have heretofore had the benefit of the same, and the same are herebyalso extended to the widows of officers, seamen and marines, who havedied in the naval service since the first day of January, one thousandeight hundred and twenty-four, or who may die in said service, by reasonof disease contracted, or of casualties by drowning or otherwise, or ofinjuries received while in the line of their duty, and the pensions of suchwidows shall commence from the passage of this act: Provided, Thatevery pension hereby granted shall cease on the death or marriage of suchwidow.