United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 76

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April 26, 1816.

Chap. LXXVI.An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act granting bounties in lands and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers.”

Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.
Further allowance of pay.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That instead of the treasurer of the United States, as is prescribed by the third section of the act to which this act is a supplement, the paymaster of the army of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to each of the persons described in the act above recited according to the provisions thereof, three months’ pay in addition to that to which they may have been previously entitled, according to the rank they respectively held in the army of the United States during the late war.

Approved, April 26, 1816.