the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, farriers, and privates, shall be entitled to the same provisions for wounds and disabilities, the same provisions for widows and children, and the same allowances and benefits in every respect, as are allowed the other troops constituting the present military peace establishment.

APPROVED, MARCH 19, 1836.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates, of volunteer and militia corps, who have been in the service of the United States, at any time since the first of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, or may hereafter be in the service of the United States, shall be entitled to, and receive, the same monthly pay, rations, clothing, or money in lieu thereof, and forage, and be furnished with the same camp equipage, including knapsacks, as are, or may be, provided by law for the officers, musicians, artificers, and privates, of the infantry of the army of the United States.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the volunteers or militia who have been, or who may be, received into the service of the United States, to suppress Indian depredations in Florida, shall be entitled to all the benefits which are conferred on persons wounded or otherwise disabled in the service of the United States.

APPROVED, MAY 23, 1836.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the volun

are hereby declared to, i. and soldiers of the mil. the United States.

APPROVED,

SEC. 4. And be it f cers, non-commissioned pursuant to this act, sha pensation, in case of d wise, incurred in the s allowed to officers, n privates in the military States; and shall be s of war, and such reg be established accordin of the army of the U may be applicable to tent and meaning of defence of the northy States.

the service, shall be entitled to all the benefit hich may be conferred on persons wounded in the rvice of the United States.

11.-WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' PENSION LAWS.

se laws, like the preceding, apply only to cases originating prior to i. 1861; and in this list is embraced all the laws under which pen

and will be granted in all cases originating prior to that date. It ly by virtue of the act of July 14, 1862, that pensions are granted to s and orphans made by the war waged by the Southern rebels. The ng laws have no application to such cases, but the same forms, rules, ...culations will be applied in the adjudication of both classes of cases.

APPROVED, JULY 4, 1836.

rc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of resentatives of the United States of America in gress assembled, That when any officer, non-comsioned officer, musician or private of the militia, luding rangers, seafencibles, and volunteers, shall ave died while in the service of the United States, ince the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred nd eighteen, or who shall have died in consequence of a wound received whilst in the service, since the ay aforesaid, and shall have left a widow, or, if no vidow, a child or children under sixteen years of ge, such widow, or if no widow, such child or chilren, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death or receiving such wound, for and during the term of fi marriage of said five yea time shall the half

years; and in case of the death or ch widow before the expiration of the half pay for the remainder of the

the said decedent: Provided, That foresaid shall be half the monthly pay

teers who may be received into the service of the United States, by virtue of the provisions of this act, shall be entitled to all the benefits which may be conferred on persons wounded in the service of the United States.

APPROVED, MAY 13, 1846.

Whereas, by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that government and the United States.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of enabling the Government of the United States to prosecute said war to a speedy and successful termination, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ the militia, naval, and military forces of the United States, and to call for and accept the services of any number of volunteers, not exceeding fifty thousand, who may offer their services, either as cavalry, artillery, infantry, or riflemen, to serve twelve months after they shall have arrived at the place of rendezyous, or to the end of the war, unless sooner discharged, according to the time for which they shall have been mustered into service; and that the sum of ten millions of dollars, out of any money in the Treasury, or to come into the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect.

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SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the volunteers who may be received into the service of the United States by virtue of the provisions of this act, and who shall be wounded or otherwise disabled

in the service, shall be entitled to all the benefit which may be conferred on persons wounded in the service of the United States.

II-WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' PENSION

LAWS.

These laws, like the preceding, apply only to cases originating prior to March 4, 1861; and in this list is embraced all the laws under which pensions are and will be granted in all cases originating prior to that date. It is only by virtue of the act of July 14, 1862, that pensions are granted to widows and orphans made by the war waged by the Southern rebels. The following laws have no application to such cases, but the same forms, rules, and regulations will be applied in the adjudication of both classes of cases.

APPROVED, JULY 4, 1836.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician or private of the militia, including rangers, seafencibles, and volunteers, shall have died while in the service of the United States, since the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, or who shall have died in consequence of a wound received whilst in the service, since the day aforesaid, and shall have left a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death or receiving such wound, for and during the term of five years; and in case of the death or marriage of such widow before the expiration of said five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the said decedent: Provided, That the half pay aforesaid shall be half the monthly pay