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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 186. 1S42.
Evidence re-ceivable.
Statute II.
Aug. 23, 1842.
Act of March30, 1814, ch.
37, vol. 3, 113.
Dragoons tobe reduced.
Repealed byact of April 4,1844, ch. 11.
2d regm’t dra-goons convenedinto riflemen.Artillery to bereduced.
Infantry to bereduced.
No enlistmentsto be made tillafter the reduc-tion.
Proviso.
Offices of su-perintendents ofarmories atSpringfield andHarper’s Ferry abolished.
Relative tomaster armor-ers, inspectors,clerks, &c.
1821, ch. 13.
partment to show his regular appointment as such officer. And thecertificates of proper officers, whether given during or since the expira-tion of their term of service, shall be receivable by the Auditor in thesettlement of such claims.
Approved, August 23, 1842.
Chap. CLXXXVI.- in Act respecting the organization of the army, and for
other purposes, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter, andso soon as the reduction can be effected as herein provided, each com-pany of dragoons shall consist of the commissioned officers as now pro-vided by law, and of four sergeants, four corporals, two buglers, onefarrier and blacksmith, and fifty privates; and the second regiment ofdragoons now in service shall be converted, after the fourth day ofMarch next, into a regiment of riflemen; and eacli company of artilleryshall consist of the commissioned officers as now provided by law, andof four sergeants, four corporals, two artificers, two musicians, andforty-two privates; and each company of infantry shall consist of thesame number of commissioned officers as now provided, and of foursergeants, four corporals, two musicians, and forty-two privates ; andthat no recruits shall be enlisted for the dragoons, artillery, or infantry,until the numbers in the several companies shall be reduced by the ex-piration of the term of service, by discharge, or other causes, below thenumber herein fixed for the said companies respectively : Provided,That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the re-enlist-ment of non-commissioned officers whose terms of service may expirebefore the army shall be reduced to the number heretofore established.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the offices of the superin-tendents of the armories at Springfield and at Harper’s Ferry shall be,and the same are hereby abolished, and the duties thereof shall be per-formed by such officers of the ordnance corps as shall be designated bythe President; and that from and after the first day of October next,the master armorers, at the national armories, shall receive, each, twelvehundred dollars, annually, payable quarter yearly ; and the inspectorsand clerks, each, eight hundred dollars per annum; and the paymas-ters and military storekeepers, at the armories, and at the arsenals ofconstruction at Pittsburg, Watervliet, and Washington city, shall re-ceive, each, twelve hundred and fifty dollars annually, payable in likemanner, and the said paymasters and military storekeepers, shall givesecurity for the faithful discharge of their duties, in such sum as theSecretary of War shall prescribe. And the two military storekeepers,authorized by the act of second of March, one thousand eight hundredand twenty-one, shall receive, each, twelve hundred and fifty dollars perannum. And no military storekeeper, at arsenals, shall, after the firstday of October next, receive, as pay, or emoluments, beyond eight hun-dred dollars per annum, besides quarters actually provided and occupiedas such, and the number authorized to be thus employed is herebylimited to ten; and all other offices of military storekeepers are herebyabolished, and discontinued, on and after said first day of October, andthe officers hereby dismissed, shall be allowed three months’ pay in ad-dition to the pay and emoluments to which they may be entitled on thatday. And none of the above-named officers, and no officers at thearmories, of any grade whatever, shall hereafter receive emoluments ofany kind, or any compensation or commutation beyond their stipulated