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commissioned officer as clerk, who, while so employed, shall receive double pay, and the actual expense of transportation while travelling under orders in the discharge of his duty.

. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the regimental and battalion paymasters to pay all the regular troops; and to ensure punctuality and responsibility, correct reports shall be made to the paymaster general once in two months, showing the disposition of the funds previously transmitted, with accurate estimates for the next payment of such regiment, garrison or department, as may have been assigned to each, and whenever any paymaster shall fail to transmit such estimate, or neglect to render his vouchers to the paymaster general for settlement of his accounts, more than six months after receiving funds, he shall be recalled, and another appointed in his place.

. And be it further enacted, That the purchasing department shall consist of one commissary general of the purchases, as heretofore authorized, with the annual salary of three thousand dollars, and one deputy commissary to each division, with the annual salary of two thousand dollars, and six assistant commissaries of issues, with the annual salary of one thousand three hundred dollars, and as many military storekeepers as the service may require, whose salaries shall be regulated by the Secretary of War according to the duty they may perform: Provided, That the pay and emoluments shall not exceed that of a captain of infantry.

. And be it further enacted, That all officers of the pay, commissary and quartermaster’s department, shall, previous to their entering on the duties of their respective offices, give good and sufficient bonds to the United States, fully to account for all moneys and public property which they may receive, in such sum as the Secretary of War shall direct. And all paymasters, commissaries and storekeepers, shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, in the same manner as commissioned officers: Provided also, That all officers of the pay and commissary’s departments be submitted to the Senate for their confirmation, in the same manner as the officers of the army.

. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to prescribe the quantity and kind of clothing to be issued annually to the troops of the United States. Provided, That whenever more than the authorized quantity is required the value of the extra articles shall be deducted from the soldiers’, and in like manner the soldiers shall receive pay, according to the annual estimated value for such authorized articles of uniform as shall not have been issued to him in each year. Provided also, That the manner of issuing and accounting for clothing, shall be established in the general regulations of the war department.

. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where a soldier of the regular army shall have been discharged from the service of the United States, and clothing shall be due to said soldier, it shall be the duty of the paymaster general to cause the same to be paid for according to the price paid in the seventh section of this act.

. And be it further enacted, That the several officers of the staff shall respectively receive the pay and emoluments, and retain all the privileges secured to the staff of the army, by the, and not incompatible with the provisions of this act; and that the regulations in force before the reduction of the army, be recognised, as far as the same shall be found applicable to the service, subject however to such alterations as the Secretary of War may adopt, with the approbation of the President.

. And be it further enacted, That the officers to the staff, provisionally retained by the President, and in this act enumerated and made permanent, be recognised in service under this act, and that the garrison surgeons and mates be hereafter considered as post surgeons; and