of survey in each case, setting forth the facts, with copies of the orders under which the clothing was lost, showing that it was lost, not by the fault of the men, but in obedience to orders given by sufficient authority; and thè issues should in no case exceed the actual necessit es of the soldiers. No superfluities will be replaced at the expense of the United States. Issues thus made will be of clothing in kind, not payments of money. 117. Officers and soldiers of the United States who are or may become prisoners of war shall, during their imprisonment, be entitled to and receive the same pay as if they were doing active duty. 118. The rations of prisoners held in the rebel States shall be commuted for and during the period of their imprisonment; the commutation to be rated at cost price. To entitle a soldier to this commutation he must furnish to the Commissary General of Prisoners such evidence of the fact of capture and time of detention as he may consider necessary, to be laid before the Secretary of War, and if approved, a certificate will be issued by the Commissary General of Prisoners, on which payment will be made by the Subsistence Department. EXTRACTS FROM ACTS OF CONGRESS. 1. If any non-commissioned officer, musician, or private shall desert the service of the United States, he shall, in addition to the penalties mentioned in the Rules and Articles of War, be liable to serve for and during such a period as shall, with the time he may have served previous to his desertion, amount to the full term of his enlistment; and such soldier shall and may be tried by a courtmartial, and punished, although the term of his enlistment may have elapsed previous to his being apprehended or tried.-Act 16th March, 1802, Sec. 18. SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That courts-martial for the trial of militia shall be composed of militia officers only. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That flogging as a punishment in the army is hereby abolished. Approved August 5, 1861. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fifth section of the act of twelfth June, eighteen hundred and fiftyeight, giving sutlers a lien upon the soldier's pay, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and all regulations giving sutlers rights and privileges beyond the Rules and Articles of War be, and the same are hereby, abrogated. Approved December 24, 1861. SEC. 6. * * No sutler shall sell to an enlisted man on credit to a sum exceeding one forth of his monthly pay within the same month; nor shall the regimental quartermasters allow the use of army wagons for sutlers' purposes; nor shall the quartermasters' conveyances be used for the transportation of sutlers' supplies. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the relative rank between officers of the navy and the army shall be 46 EXTRACTS FROM ACTS OF CONGRESS. as follows, lineal rank only to be considered: Commanders with lieutenant colonels. Masters with first lieutenants. SEC. 23. And be it further enacted, That the clothes, arms, military outfits, and accoutrements furnished by the United States to any soldier, shall not be sold, bartered, exchanged, pledged, loaned, or given away; and no person not a soldier, or duly authorized officer of the United States, who has possession of any such clothes, arms, military outfits, or accoutrements, furnished as aforesaid, and which have been the subject of any such sale, barter, exchange, pledge, loan, or gift, shall have any right, title, or interest therein; but the same may be seized and taken wherever found by any officer of the United States, civil or military, and shall thereupon be delivered to any quartermaster, or other officer authorized to receive the same; and the possession of any such clothes, arms, military outfits, or accoutrements, by any person not a soldier or officer of the United States, shall be prima facia evidence of such a sale, barter. exchange, pledge, loan, or gift, as aforesaid. SEC. 29. And be it further enacted, That the court shall, for reasonable cause, grant a continuance to either party for such time and as often as shall appear to be just: Provided, That if the prisoner be in close confinement, the trial shall not be delayed for a period longer than sixty days. PAY OF ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY. Sergeant-Major........$21 00 | Corporal..... .......13 00 ..12 00 First Sergeant...........20 00 Principal Musican....21 00 Sergeant........ 17 00 Musician Hospital Stewards.......30 00 |