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UNITED STATES

TABLE OP MONTHLY PAY OF ENLISTED MEN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

After Five Years' Continuous Service

$2 EXTRA

Year in each enlistment.

1st vr.

Year of total continuous service

Eank and Service company Private — Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry. Private — (Second class) Engineers and Ordnance Musician — Engineers, Artillery, and Infantry. Trumpeter — Cavalry Wagoner — Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry Artificer — Artillery and Infantry Corporal — Artillery, Cavahy, and Infantry Blacksmith and Farrier — Cavalry Saddler — Cavalry Sergeant — Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry Private — (First class) Engineers and Ordnance. Corporal — Engineers and Ordnance. First Sergeant — Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry Sergeant — Engineers, Ordnance, and Signal Corps Sergeants — (First class) Signal Corps regiment Chief Trumpeter — Cavalry Princii)al Musician — Artilleiy and Infantry Saddler Sergeant — Cavalry Chief Musician — Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry Sergeant Major — Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry Quartermaster Sergeant — Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry Sergeant Major and Quartermaster Sergeant^ Engineers

Ordnance Sergeant Commissary Sergeant. Post Quartermaster Sergeant hospital corps* IIosi)ital Steward . . . . Acting Hospital Steward Private

Gthvr.

$18 19 20 23 22 25 30 39 50 27 G5 28 41

39

50 30 23

2d yr,

Tth vr.

$18 19 20 23 22 25 30 39 50 27 65 28 41

39

50 30 28

3d yr.

8th vr.

$18 19 20 23 22 25 30 39 50 27 65 28 41

39

50 30 23

4th yr.

9th vr,

19 20 23 22 25 30 39 50

27 65 28 41 39

50 80 23

5th yr.

10th vr

$18 19 20 23 22 25 30 89 50 27 65 28 41

39

50 30 23

1 Veterinary surgeon (junior) $75 per month.

Enlisted men receive slight increase of salary for continued service, and in addition to their cash pay are furnished with rations, clothing, medical attendance, and medicines and shelter, light, and fuel ; after thirty years of service they may retire on three-fourths pay and allowances, which for a private soldier amounts to about $ 25 per month. This enables a man who at 21 years of age adopts the pro- fession of arms to retire at 51, and if he has been as saving of